Comments on: The trouble with Twitter http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html Turn On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:08:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Roxanne Augustave http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-9292 Roxanne Augustave Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:11:08 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-9292 Howdy, i've mearly me express and let you see your website layout is really ultimately fantastic Howdy, i’ve mearly me express and let you see your website layout is really ultimately fantastic

]]> By: Ed http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-6812 Ed Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:44:40 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-6812 <p>Judging Twitter based on a sample of average users is like judging Microsoft Excel based on a random sampling of average users that can't create formulas or even sort.</p> Judging Twitter based on a sample of average users is like judging Microsoft Excel based on a random sampling of average users that can't create formulas or even sort.

]]> By: Joseph Ferrara.sellsius http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3551 Joseph Ferrara.sellsius Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:22:20 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3551 <p>Consider also the applications built around twitter that add to its value for business. I'll give 3 examples and ask your readers to add more:</p> <p>1. twitterlocal-- a way to tap into conversations and build relationships with those folks in your market</p> <p>2. tweetbeep-- like Google alerts, it's a way to have your ear to the ground. For example, if you cover certain condos in Miami and set up a tweetbeep for them, you are there to add to the conversation whenever it arises</p> <p>3. twitterfeed--- if you believe syndication of your content is useful, then use Tf to automatically send your latest blog post to the community-- </p> <p>For my clients who use these tools, they've seen their daily blog visitors increase, as well as their subscribers and twitter followers.</p> <p>Hope this helps.</p> Consider also the applications built around twitter that add to its value for business. I'll give 3 examples and ask your readers to add more:

1. twitterlocal– a way to tap into conversations and build relationships with those folks in your market

2. tweetbeep– like Google alerts, it's a way to have your ear to the ground. For example, if you cover certain condos in Miami and set up a tweetbeep for them, you are there to add to the conversation whenever it arises

3. twitterfeed— if you believe syndication of your content is useful, then use Tf to automatically send your latest blog post to the community–

For my clients who use these tools, they've seen their daily blog visitors increase, as well as their subscribers and twitter followers.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: Peter Fletcher http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3550 Peter Fletcher Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:20:11 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3550 <p>If you took one or two sentences out of almost any conversation and placed them into another conversation the sentences would make little or no sense. And that's what Twitter does - from the perspective of an observer. But from the perspective of a participant the experience is different because there's context to each of the conversation snippets. Through this shared context the snippets make sense. This snippet style conversation is common in the real world where we may hold a stake in several conversations at a party using bits and pieces from each to keep ourselves up to speed with what's going on in multiple conversations. If we want something more meaningful though we break away into a more focused conversation. Twitter=party, blog=DandM.</p> If you took one or two sentences out of almost any conversation and placed them into another conversation the sentences would make little or no sense. And that's what Twitter does – from the perspective of an observer. But from the perspective of a participant the experience is different because there's context to each of the conversation snippets. Through this shared context the snippets make sense. This snippet style conversation is common in the real world where we may hold a stake in several conversations at a party using bits and pieces from each to keep ourselves up to speed with what's going on in multiple conversations. If we want something more meaningful though we break away into a more focused conversation. Twitter=party, blog=DandM.

]]> By: Aaron Petty http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3549 Aaron Petty Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:03:34 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3549 <p>Marc you can forward this to your example providers <br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUR2E8l3bi8&fmt=18" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUR2E8l3bi8&fmt=18</a></p> Marc you can forward this to your example providers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUR2E8l3bi8&fmt=18

]]> By: Missy Caulk http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3548 Missy Caulk Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:19:14 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3548 <p>I am probably on Twitter a lot less than most, I just get too distracted and hours can slip away.</p> <p>I like Twitter for the links that send me to peoples blogs or news. </p> <p>I started following local news sources and now many are following me whereas they have lots of followers and follow very few. </p> <p>I have met many people there that I did not know through my real estate blogs. I feed my posts into it but if that is ALL I ever did, I don't think I would be using it to its full potential. </p> <p>I was speaking at the KW office here in Ann Arbor and someone tweated they were coming to hear me speak and then a huge tech guy from Ann Arbor showed up too. </p> <p>To me the benefits far out weighs the concerns, but then I'm not a big drinker and haven't got into the blip thing. (yet)</p> <p>One other benefit to me, is to be able to twit with authors like Paul Cheney and Guy, Now how would that have happened without twitter. </p> I am probably on Twitter a lot less than most, I just get too distracted and hours can slip away.

I like Twitter for the links that send me to peoples blogs or news.

I started following local news sources and now many are following me whereas they have lots of followers and follow very few.

I have met many people there that I did not know through my real estate blogs. I feed my posts into it but if that is ALL I ever did, I don't think I would be using it to its full potential.

I was speaking at the KW office here in Ann Arbor and someone tweated they were coming to hear me speak and then a huge tech guy from Ann Arbor showed up too.

To me the benefits far out weighs the concerns, but then I'm not a big drinker and haven't got into the blip thing. (yet)

One other benefit to me, is to be able to twit with authors like Paul Cheney and Guy, Now how would that have happened without twitter.

]]> By: Marc Davison http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3547 Marc Davison Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:02:57 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3547 <p>This conversation has caused me to think long and hard about this topic. </p> <p>I am convinced and always have been that Twitter has legs. </p> <p>I am now convinced as a result of reading your comments, that some of you are using them to walk in real estate. </p> <p>I think creating friends online based on shared experiences and alerts is cool and way for you guys to connect. </p> <p>Perhaps you, agents, brokers have a language all your own and have found a way to cultivate this hum into a level of connection and communication that I don't understand. </p> <p>But I don't have to understand it to appreciate the fact that if alerting each other about things you do all day can develop friendships, then by all means I can change my tune about that. But I'll hold back the song I suppose until that friendship and time spent creating it, creates revenue. I mean, isn't that what this is all about? </p> This conversation has caused me to think long and hard about this topic.

I am convinced and always have been that Twitter has legs.

I am now convinced as a result of reading your comments, that some of you are using them to walk in real estate.

I think creating friends online based on shared experiences and alerts is cool and way for you guys to connect.

Perhaps you, agents, brokers have a language all your own and have found a way to cultivate this hum into a level of connection and communication that I don't understand.

But I don't have to understand it to appreciate the fact that if alerting each other about things you do all day can develop friendships, then by all means I can change my tune about that. But I'll hold back the song I suppose until that friendship and time spent creating it, creates revenue. I mean, isn't that what this is all about?

]]> By: Aaron Petty http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3546 Aaron Petty Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:51:00 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3546 <p>I try not to use a knife to turn a screw because I am liable to dull and or damage the knife and not turn the screw. But when I what to deliver a relevant piece of information to a group of people that are looking for me to delivery it to them Twitter is the tool. My followers are not asking me to play reporter they are tuning in to what I say I will offer them: one tweet a day of relevant information of our local market. Best of all as a follower:</p> <p>1) I opt in<br /> 2) It comes to me and I am mobile<br /> 3) I opt in<br /> 4) I have been watching and listening thirty second commercials for thirty years and "viewing" product and service ads that are shotgunned at me with a lack relevance to my life/style<br /> 5)I opt in<br /> 6)I can opt out<br /> </p> I try not to use a knife to turn a screw because I am liable to dull and or damage the knife and not turn the screw. But when I what to deliver a relevant piece of information to a group of people that are looking for me to delivery it to them Twitter is the tool. My followers are not asking me to play reporter they are tuning in to what I say I will offer them: one tweet a day of relevant information of our local market. Best of all as a follower:

1) I opt in
2) It comes to me and I am mobile
3) I opt in
4) I have been watching and listening thirty second commercials for thirty years and "viewing" product and service ads that are shotgunned at me with a lack relevance to my life/style
5)I opt in
6)I can opt out

]]> By: Joseph Ferrara.sellsius http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3545 Joseph Ferrara.sellsius Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:59:17 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3545 <p>In the bathwater, the baby<br /> <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/11/giving-thanks-via-twitter.html#links" rel="nofollow">http://blog.twitter.com/2008/11/giving-thanks-via-twitter.html#links</a><br /> </p> In the bathwater, the baby
http://blog.twitter.com/2008/11/giving-thanks-via-twitter.html#links

]]> By: Joseph Ferrara.sellsius http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-3544 Joseph Ferrara.sellsius Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:09:58 +0000 http://wp.1000wattconsulting.com/2008/12/heres-why-i-dont-get-twitter.html#comment-3544 <p>Some tweety observations:</p> <p>Twitterers communicate more than 140 characters. Heck, a twitpic can be worth a thousand words :) </p> <p>Links, which I give and take, are part of the new journalism, if you believe some folks.</p> <p>Twitter may make for easier (viral?) transmission of news. I call it the IPL (internet party line).</p> <p>Yes, there is drivel, as Jay points out, but hell, life is full of it. Divise a means to filter.</p> <p>Hey Hahn you blipster, lets grab a drink.</p> Some tweety observations:

Twitterers communicate more than 140 characters. Heck, a twitpic can be worth a thousand words :)

Links, which I give and take, are part of the new journalism, if you believe some folks.

Twitter may make for easier (viral?) transmission of news. I call it the IPL (internet party line).

Yes, there is drivel, as Jay points out, but hell, life is full of it. Divise a means to filter.

Hey Hahn you blipster, lets grab a drink.

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