Dell makes $6.5m through Twitter sales

Computer maker Dell has sold $6.5m worth of equipment by using microblogging website Twitter.

This represents a late surge because in June this year the company said it had made $3m of sales on Twitter over the previous two years.

Although only a fraction of the $12.3bn sales in its latest financial quarter it is growing rapidly.

Dell's delloutlet Twitter account has almost 1.5m followers.