Post details: Do you Twitter?
04/21/08
Do you Twitter?
I've been seeing "twitters" for awhile now...news stories, Facebook updates, and so on. At last week's MVP Summit, I attended an Open Space session on social networking, and that night I got a Twitter account.
I keep thinking that it has possibilities for more than just social updates, but I haven't yet figured out how to use groups or channels or whatever it is that will let me filter the twitters so that they make sense. For example, I like taking a break every now and then and catching up on what folks have been doing...but I don't want hundreds of text messages sent to my phone with the same information.
I think that means I want the anti-social social networking connection ;-) .
I had originally thought that maybe a weekly "tip" of some kind would be kinda neat...I could maybe create a #helpstuff channel that folks could follow. Of course, there's also the character limit...with only 140 characters, "write tight" will take on a whole new meaning, especially if I have to give up 10 of them just for the channel name. (I can hear you all laughing now...I haven't been able to blog on a regular basis for the last couple of months, so how would I ever regularly post a weekly tip? You can stop now ;-).)
I just have to think on this some more.
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But here's where I think Twitter has some uses:
- arriving at an airport (like SeaTac) and being able to Twitter that you're headed for baggage claim, and asking if anyone is around who wants to share a cab to the city
- getting stuck in a city (for whatever reason...lately mine has been because of flight delays and cancellations) and finding out if anyone wants to go to dinner
But here's where Twitter could really shine...
- weekly tips and tricks about an application you use regularly, possibly with a link to a more in-depth article
- announcements like "registration now open" for a conference you want to attend
- product update/dot release announcements
- problems with products (for example, recalls)
I think that the possibilities are there. I just haven't figured out how to take advantage of them yet!
- very small surveys
- status updates for you coworkers who might be looking for you in your office or trying to decide where to call you
- invites to events
- friendsourcing, asking for help or references on a particular topic
-conference coverage using Twemes (Twitter themes, like http://twemes.com/doctrainwest)
my favorite techy one is
- integrate Twitter as a cost-free SMS gateway into your own applications (Monitwitter, sadly, has stopped active development)
Check out @Zappos (4300 followers!), @SouthwestAir, @Jetblue, and @Comcastcares for really good examples of a Twittering company rep doing a nice balanced job of announcements coupled with a real human element. Customer support, collaboration, marketing, all rolled into 140-character microblog posts. Impressive.
And Twitter is just plain fun sometimes, too. :)
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