Twitter Newbie Questions and Debates – Answered
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- No, twitter is NOT exactly like facebook updates. Period
- If you say, “I don’t get it.” then you haven’t really made an effort to use or understand twitter. Simple as that.
- If you have 100,000 followers and only follow 20 people, you don’t understand the word ‘conversation’. (Yes, I’m talking to you too Biz Stone, co-founder of twitter)
- NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU ATE FOR LUNCH! (Unless you are at the White House having dinner, just choked and Obama gave you the Heimlich:) )
- NO ONE CARES THAT YOU ARE: “hopping on a plane”, “walking the dog”, or “taking the kids to school” (Unless your dog walked the kids to school while you were on that plane)
- “Thanks”, “LOL” are not complete sentences or tweet worthy statements.
- Auto-DM messages saying, ‘Thanks for following’ are a waste of bandwidth and completely useless for either parties.
- If you say, “I’m never going to use twitter.” You are probably the same person who said, I’ll never be on facebook and now you are. If you say I’m never going on twitter again, I will register your name myself and upload a picture of you drunk in your underwear. Don’t say, “I’ll never”.
Yes, Twitter can be used how ever you really want. I’m just not going to follow you anymore…
What is your biggest Twitter Peeve?
I agree with all of it (though I am guilty of posting tweets about my lunch). I’m sick of explaining why I like Twitter to people who wont even log in.
Good post. Twitter is for building relationships and engaging in two way communications. It is critical for people to understand that it takes time to begin to fully leverage the power of Twitter, and people often walk away before investing the required time.
I do think it is in the best interests of anyone engaged in business to dive into twitter and think about how it fits with the companies long term marketing strategy. The competition is, don’t fall behind.
If you’re interested, feel free to check out a recent blog post of mine on additional reasons I feel you should give Twitter a try:
http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/do-not-miss-the-boat-join-twitter/
Thanks,
John
http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/JohnFMoore
I don’t know, I sort of do care about the little details, what somebody had for lunch, or when they walked their dog, and although “Thanks” may not be Tweet-worthy, I do appreciate the gesture. It’s the minutia and details that make it interesting to me. I don’t know, maybe “I don’t get it”, but I imagine the experience is unique to the individual.
While auto DMs are most annoying, another is reading those nugget entries as you mentioned such as “LOL” or “Thanks.”
In an effort to involve my followers in a conversation (whether they want to be or not!), I try to repeat the question I was asked in my answer so at least others know what I’m tweeting about.
@publiside
“In an effort to involve my followers in a conversation (whether they want to be or not!), I try to repeat the question I was asked in my answer so at least others know what I’m tweeting about.”
I agree, this is a great way to engage others in the conversation.
Instead of saying, “I agree” or “Awesome movie” you can say, “I agree, slumdog millionaire was an awesome movie”
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i vehemently agree with the facebook status != twitter.
however, for my friends, i *do* like seeing their tweets about the trivial things they’re doing. it’s that sort of ambient presence that drew me to twitter in the first place.
How does someone have hundreds of followers and only one or two updates? I’ve seen this several times already.
I hate when people who I KNOW have good information to share, or a good sense of humor, or who COULD be having good conversations in general, choose to run their accounts on full auto-pilot.
I can smell an auto-tweet a mile away, and I un-follow. Same goes for someone whose account is nothing but retweets of everyone else’s material.
I agree, I hate full auto pilot accounts, but I am guilty of Re-tweeting way too much of others material myself…
I just don’t feel like I have too much to say that adds value instead of just adding to the noise.