Connecting WordPress, Facebook and Twitter – How and Why?

Facebook and Twitter are the giants of the social networking world, with huge amounts of traffic daily.  There are currently over 300 million active Facebook users and at least half log in every day.  Twitter records around 50million Tweets per day, which is an average of 600 per second.  Figures continue to rise daily. These are vast quantities of traffic that any Wordpress website just cannot afford to miss out on. 
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BuddyPress: The Social Media Game Changer

BuddyPress is a new social networking plug in that allows you to create your own social network on a Wordpress site.  Considering that 17% of all time spent on the internet is on social networking sites, you could create a miniature version of the giant Facebook and tap into the power of the social networking phenomenon. This plug in is also ideal for businesses, schools and colleges.  Anyone with limited technical
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