7 Reasons to be on Twitter
Posted on 07 April, 2009 at 16:16 PM
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About the Show
David and Marc give you 7 reasons why you should be on twitter.
- Maximizing every social medium possable.
- Networking with people in the community.
- Finding help and resources (ie. using Twitter Search).
- Outsourcing
- Marketing yourself, brand, business etc.
- Keeping up with news and trends.
- Getting business.
Enjoy!
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User Comments
Alex 08 Apr, 2009 00:23:09 AM
What do you think about using Twitter as a real time journal of some activities? If I am doing something complicated I would want to log what I did for future reference (say steps i took in installing some fancy linux program). In a text document the logs seem dead, useless and forgotten. But if someone uses twitter search instead or even google for some of the problems I experienced in my adventures, then it is potentially useful to more people.
I don't know if this is a valid way of thinking since i only have 3 followers with interests similar to my "journal".
erich Viedge 08 Apr, 2009 12:24:31 PM
That last use -- documenting a troubleshooting steps is a fabulous idea!
Saylor 08 Apr, 2009 12:57:16 PM
I've been getting a lot of flack lately from friends. They don't quite get how it can be more than tweeting about what you eat. But maybe that's because that's all they would tweet about??
anyways... another rock top video.
Saylor 08 Apr, 2009 12:59:50 PM
@alex I've been using twitter in a similar way. I've created a work account (b.c they don't want us on our personal blogs) and I just keep a log of what I'm working on and any problems I come across. #'ing them appropriately.
erich Viedge 08 Apr, 2009 13:02:53 PM
It would be cool if we could work out a way of #'tagging trouble shooting steps so that we can all tap into each others' expertise and experience....
Tony Mishler 08 Apr, 2009 14:13:47 PM
Great video. You guys should do something about the acoustics in your room though ;P
alex 08 Apr, 2009 15:25:51 PM
@Erich Viedge >>It would be cool if we could work out a way of #'tagging
Yes that would be useful. I am working at condensing my troubleshooting steps from my twitter into the new blog, powered by HashOne theme ;) (hopefully finish it today), as a summary and its very difficult to pick out the working steps from failed ones (i post those too so i know what not to do again, plus i often found by reading other guides that what failed for others worked very well for me) as well as distinguishing them from my miscellaneous entries. This will also be useful for searching ""tap into each others' expertise"" so that results are more relevant
I guess its a matter of thinking up some convention. I already see a number of conventions floating around in twitter conversations so the concept is not unproven. Only problem, is that the tag will use up more characters and putting that long command line output in 140 characters is already a pain and describing what to do from there is already a pain.
Sorry guys for using your comment area for our conversation ^_^"
Philip Rawson 12 Apr, 2009 08:23:33 AM
Great video, I wish you had this a while back to convince me to start tweeting!
On a side note, I just noticed your site traffic has almost quadrupled in the last month, way to go!
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Rank Higher, Make Money! 07 Apr, 2009 19:21:08 PM
I would also add another....
Because it's fun! :D
- Eric