Tweetshare Adds Presence and Live Chat to Twitter Fan Pages

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuze Box, the leading provider of visual collaboration applications for consumers and businesses, today announced updates to Tweetshare, the Twitter-based application that allows brands and Twitter users to consolidate their Twitter presence to a central branded page with threaded conversations. Users can immediately publish any type of content to the web - including HD video, presentations, images and more - to simplify Twitter-based conversation around their brand or topic.

Tweetshare now includes several real-time features that allow brands and users to engage and interact in powerful new ways. Tweetshare will showcase the platform, including its new real-time capabilities, at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, May 24-26.

More than 1,000 brands - including Zappos, HBO's True Blood series, Ubisoft, Millennial Media, and Toro - are using Tweetshare Fan Pages to engage with their communities and share content on the web.

"We're using Tweetshare to engage with our community and drive awareness around our upcoming film festival, and are thrilled with the platform's capabilities," said Michael Fox, Mendocino Film Festival Director. "We post videos, photos and film trailers that spotlight our content and give fans insider info like sneak peeks and other content they'll only find here. It's been fantastic, and Tweetshare will be an integral piece of our social media strategy moving forward."

"With our new real-time features, we're making it easier to engage your audience with your content," said Patrick Moran, chief strategy officer of Fuze Box's Tweetshare. "Both large and small companies have found Tweetshare to be valuable to their social marketing efforts, and have used Tweetshare to really move the needle in terms of community engagement."

New Tweetshare features include the following:

• Online presence – See when Tweetshare users are on the site using easy visual indicators, fueling engagement among community members.
• Live group chat – Every discussion and Tweetshare Fan Page now features a live chat window for users to engage in conversation with each other. Users can chat as part of the threaded Twitter stream, or privately between each other.
• Facebook integration – Users can now "Like" tweetshare discussions on Facebook without ever leaving tweetshare.
• Discussion capabilities extended to include content-free sharing. - Users and brands can now start stand-alone Tweetshare discussions without media content.

Marketers, brands and businesses can sign up for free branded Twitter Fan Pages at Tweetshare or watch a video of Tweetshare in action at YouTube.

About Fuze Box

Fuze Box is a leading platform provider of visual collaboration applications for consumers and businesses. Its applications - Fuze Meeting, Fuze Messenger, Fuze Movie and Tweetshare - allow people to communicate, collaborate and share from any device, anywhere in the world. The company's technology is based on a real-time visual communications platform that converges messaging, telephony, high-definition, synchronized video and image sharing across the enterprise, the web and mobile networks. For more information, please visit www.fuzebox.com.

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