I have been using twitter everyday now for the past 6mth’s and it has opened up the Web to me and i have made so many new contacts and friends.
The coolest thing is you get to follow real “celebrities” the likes of Richard Branson, Stephen Fry, Guy Kawassaki, Kenny Egan, and on some occasions you actually get responses and replies from them which is amazing really.
Its a real source of up to the minute News and not just IT Tech news but real world news like the other night when the Plane landed in the Hudson River. It was on Twitter before Sky News. mark my word in 12mths time twitter is going to be HOOOOOGE
Tags: Twitter
January 17, 2009 at 7:34 pm |
On the social side, I think twitter is great. I also think that business can harness the strength of this tool also. I think that branding and relationship building can occur as well.
http://roihunters.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/business-twitter-ideas/
January 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm |
100% Agree.
January 18, 2009 at 8:18 am |
Hi Robert,
I appear to be following you on Twitter so I thought I would drop in and say hi on your blog.
I do agree with your post about Twitter. I have been on for about the same time as yourself. It is great but it has just struck me if we are in a moment of time which won’t last. We are still in the early adopters clique despite Twitters massive growth and while Scoble, Fry, Kawasaki may knock out the odd reply at the moment what will happen when they get thousands more followers?
Is it just going to get unsustainable for them to have anykind of ‘relationship’ with their followers and we could just go back to reading their blogs or listenning passively to their tweets.
I kind of feel this way about Guy Kawasaki at the moment. his tweets seem to me pretty impersonal and just links to stuff he has noted.
I tend to think that as real ‘brands’ try and move into the Twitter sphere the same thing will happen. We don’t really want to enguage with a pair of Nike trainers of a can of Cola. What will they have to say of value to me? I don’t really want to hear from their CEO or PR person either or what they had for breakfast.
I’m just ranting off here (in fact this may get a transfer to my blog).
Hope you where out of the storms
All the best Dave ~~>Allihies
January 18, 2009 at 11:36 am |
Hi Dave
Thanks for your comments, and for taking the time to visit my blog You make some great points. I guess time will tell i hope Twitter grows but not in the wrong direction.
Cheers
Rob