Comments on: Twitter — Using it Yet?

By: TJ McCue

TJ McCue — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:57:22 +0000

Many Twitter Users are Quick Quitters and only stay on the service about a month. This is from a Nielsen study.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042901445.html

Shoutout to marketing expert, Annie Eissler, at Mixtur. http://www.mixtur.com/

By: soultravelers3

soultravelers3 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:46:35 +0000

I am a fan of twitter and find it to be a great tool for networking. I have met some great people there that I never would have met otherwise and it is a quick way to keep in touch with many.

By: Glenn.Isaac

Glenn.Isaac — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:36:09 +0000

I am a proud user of Twitter, and do see a far-reaching potential for its business use. However, I am sure that the social benefits of Twitter will dry up fast once that potential manifests. Users just don’t like too much promotion when they come to have real conversations, or to keep a streaming record of their life. When conversations turn to promotion, many users — especially those who are not early adapters — I believe, will run for cover to the new site with far-reaching but not manifest potential for business use.

Anyone else dislike it when people promote stuff during real conversations?

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:08:46 +0000

Anita:

We have actually evolved our company Twittering to involve… less “shenanigans” (though we did tweet that we got the VP of Tech with an April Fool’s joke) and more about any updates of scheduled downtime (for when we update BatchBook, our web app), what new features we just pushed, and certain press bits we’re proud of. Seems to be working pretty well for that purpose, though our personal Twitter accounts are certainly more “chatty”.

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:51:59 +0000

Please feel free to read my post (click on my name) on how will use Twitter in the future. I haven’t used it for a long time, I signed up last summer and then I have tried to jump start it a couple of times.

You could follow me at:

http://Martin.Lindeskog.name/twitter
http://twitter.com/lyceum

By: Jayme

Jayme — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:35:39 +0000

Thanks Anita for the distinction on Twitter versus other social bookmarking sites. I get it now. I will give it a shot!

By: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:15:36 +0000

Hi Adam, regarding your point:

“We have a company Twitter, but haven’t exactly found the voice we want to use there. Our individual employee accounts are all quite compelling if you ask me (of course, I’m biased). So, this got me thinking about how a small business’ brand is really the sum of the individual personal brands. People are more apt to follow personal accounts than business accounts, it seems.”

I think there’s something to what you say. Twitter, of course, in uniquely about making personal connections — it’s truly chatting. It’s hard for a company to chat.

But I also think you can use a company name for branding purposes — but an employee can speak from a personal perspective and throw in personal information and talk in a “personal” voice using the company name for the Twitter account.

Anyone else have thoughts on how to find the “company” voice on Twitter?

Anita

By: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:03:02 +0000

Hi Jayme,

Regarding your question: “Anita, how is Twitter different from StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati?”

Twitter is unique for allowing you to make personal connections far better than the others. Twitter is a fabulous networking tool. It’s more personal. It deepens relationships on the Web.

Twitter is like instant messenger except that you are sending out messages one-to-many instead of one-to-one like standard instant messenger. But because you are sending short messages — and receiving and reading other messages from others — you are connecting with people. No matter how far away those people happen to be.

With Stumbleupon, Digg and Technorati, it’s more about finding information and expressing your views (voting) on that information. It’s not as easy to network with people using those social networking tools.

Anybody else out there care to jump in to help explain the differences?

Anita

PS, great question by the way!

By: Jayme

Jayme — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:02:19 +0000

Anita, how is Twitter different from StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati? I currently do all three. I will investigate Twitter as well but didn’t know it has any advantages over the other bookmarking sites. Should I limit with bookmark sites I use or is it a good idea to do as many as I can tolerate?

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:05:37 +0000

I’ve been using Twitter for quite a while but never really pondered what the appeal was. Your point about seeing patterns develop and personalities emerge is spot on. I’ve had no retort for the skeptics before (besides “you just gotta try it”) but now I do.

We have a company Twitter, but haven’t exactly found the voice we want to use there. Our individual employee accounts are all quite compelling if you ask me (of course, I’m biased). So, this got me thinking about how a small business’ brand is really the sum of the individual personal brands. People are more apt to follow personal accounts than business accounts, it seems.

@adarowski