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Addicted to Twitter! (for now…)
… is the question my geekiest friend asked me this afternoon. ‘I don’t get it, I really don’t!’ He’s not the only one, and admittedly, I only just started playing with Twitter… I guess I’ll find out in the next few weeks whether this is lust or love!
A while back, I asked my Twitter followers what Twitter is all about and Mack gave me the following answer.
So far, I have seen people twittering about the weather, traffic information, sending useful links, and promoting their blogs. Here is what Phil and Mack had to say about how they use Twitter:
I think there’s a massive opportunity for brands to build relationship with their consumers on Twitter, by creating their own Twitter pages and sending regular Tweets to their followers. Saying that, I think Twitter will have to develop a way of sorting contacts in a more practical and organised way i.e. allowing users to classify their contacts in groups (e.g. marketing Twitters, friends, brands, news etc)
I think Twitter will also radically change the way we consume media as the application evolves – Twitterpic via Twirl is simply great and allows Twitters to become real-time journalists sharing information and news as it happens.
Watch this space
Further reading: Discover new Twitter friends with who should I follow
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about 2 years ago
It would be great if you could assign followers to “streams” – so that those who like the personal updates can be separated from those who only want the professional insights & questions etc…
For now i’m trying to find balance between the two… but i’ve noticed that those who have huge followings tend to use it for one specific purpose…
about 2 years ago
One purpose huh?
Interestingly, Mack said in one of his updates the other day that he feel the experience gets better the more people he follows…
about 2 years ago
I totally agree – i’m getting way more out of twitter now that i’m following and being followed by over 30 people. I’m not sure how people keep track of 300+ tweets… but i still think it works best when the ebb & flow is consistent.
I also find that i use twitter 90% of the time on my iphone or blackberry. I use twinkle for the iphone and it adds location and tinyurls for pictures which get included in your tweets. Pretty cool… and a neat way of staying connected when i’m not chained to a desktop or laptop.
about 2 years ago
still addicted??
you should have a look, if you haven’t already, at something called snackr. and also you can extract the rss feed for your entire freind list using this:
http://tools.opiumfield.com/twitter/username/opml just have to put in your twitter name into the url.
about 2 years ago
Nice blog to visit.
cheers, Maimer