Comments on: Top Twelve Reasons to Twitter

By: Tammara Galvano

Tammara Galvano — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:59:44 +0000

The Zune concentrates on being a Portable Media Player. Not a web browser. Not a game machine. Maybe in the future it’ll do even better in those areas, but for now it’s a fantastic way to organize and listen to your music and videos, and is without peer in that regard. The iPod’s strengths are its web browsing and apps. If those sound more compelling, perhaps it is your best choice.

By: Alien

Alien — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:31:18 +0000

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By: Monica 08

Monica 08 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:54:24 +0000

Great article! Will pass it along to my blogger friends who are still a little reluctant to open a Twitter account.

I liked the 12th reason- Not too time-consuming. I used to read news and blogs on Google reader. With Twitter I 'follow' websites and bloggers to see the latest updates.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:05:41 +0000

Meeting really cool people on Twitter! Thanks for this list! Evan’s last blog post..Why Twitter is the Coolest Thing Around…

By: José

José — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:20:26 +0000

Hi,

I’ve read good things about Twitter but I’m not there and I don’t know if I ever will.
I’m just not the “follower” kind of guy, although there are quality blogs that I follow.
Building my opinion based upon my beliefs is one of my characteristics.
Of course that if I should guess that Twitter would get me lots of traffic to my blog….
From all the strategies and social websites, together with lots of blogs that practically say the same thing, in my opinion it’s quality and relevant content, mixed with a good dose of creativity that helps to an organic growth of a web presence.

Have a great week,

José

By: Diana Freedman

Diana Freedman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:39:09 +0000

@ timethief Thank you for a very insightful comment! I know that some people’s solution to the Twitter noise is to have two accounts: one to promote their blog, follow/get followed, get links to followers’ blogs, etc., and another for friends-only. Even though many people retweet and link to other people’s posts without having their own content, I still find their links useful and their opinions valuable. It’s all a matter of being picky about who to follow.

@ Michelle, your comment inspired a blog post! Hopefully it can answer your “what now” question. http://ustandout.com/index.php/social-networks/what-should-you-tweet-about/

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:29:40 +0000

I discovered your website on Blogcatalog, I’ve just asked you a question in one of the forums.

Good list Diana but I still have no idea what to say on Twitter. I signed up and thought what now?
I am not interested in hearing what other people are eating or going to the supermarket to buy so I am not sure if Twitter is really for me.

How did you start using it?

Good website, I’m subscribing.
Lifeposter

Michelle’s last blog post..Live Full, Die Empty (Part 1 of 2)

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:17:34 +0000

This is a great post Diana. Thanks for sharing it. timethief’s last blog post..Buddy Press demo site

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:16:56 +0000

This is a great post Diana. Thanks for sharing it. I’m a twitter user who has no products or services to sell. I was inundated by marketers when I first got a twitter account. I was also inundated by followers who spent all day long informing each other about what they were eating and where they were.

In these days of economic distress and no more easy credit there are fewer people who are responding to advertising in the print media. The overkill of advetising on billboards, buses, businesses etc. has led to a rebound reaction of “advertising blondness”. People are meeting in social networks and the business people and marketers are following them there intent on marketing to them. I’m not a consumer drive materialist and I am “advertsing blind”.

I assessed twitter’s value to me as a social networking tool with regard to promoting my own posts. I assessed the noise to sound ratio and then I dumped hundreds of followers, who use twitter to create a false authority based on broadcast range, as opposed to creating authority based on quality of contents in their posts, the number of comments they receive, their ability to create a blog centered community of faithful readers (subscribers) and I protected my tweets.

I use my twitter account to chat with freinds. And I use it to let them know when I publish a post. I am willing to re-tweet their post publication tweets to me and they are willing to do the same for mine. That’s where it ends. I refuse to spend hours of every day creating false authority by establishing a huge broadcast presence based on a huge number of pseudo-freinds.

timethief’s last blog post..Buddy Press demo site