I way too much underestimated Twitter [modified]
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Using Twitter to launch a restaurant.[^] After using twitter for a while, I have the following conclusions:- 1. If you follow updates from certain people you do learn a lot. I have gained good bit from Guy Kawasaki's tweets as he posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, funding etc which interests me these days. 2. It is a good marketing tool. I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk. My only concern is that it might be a bubble that may burst all of a sudden.
modified on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:15 PM
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Using Twitter to launch a restaurant.[^] After using twitter for a while, I have the following conclusions:- 1. If you follow updates from certain people you do learn a lot. I have gained good bit from Guy Kawasaki's tweets as he posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, funding etc which interests me these days. 2. It is a good marketing tool. I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk. My only concern is that it might be a bubble that may burst all of a sudden.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk.
Isn't that also the rule of thumb when spending the night at the Playboy Mansion? Or maybe that's a different rule I'm thinking of?
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk.
Isn't that also the rule of thumb when spending the night at the Playboy Mansion? Or maybe that's a different rule I'm thinking of?
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Same rule, different appendage.
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua!
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Using Twitter to launch a restaurant.[^] After using twitter for a while, I have the following conclusions:- 1. If you follow updates from certain people you do learn a lot. I have gained good bit from Guy Kawasaki's tweets as he posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, funding etc which interests me these days. 2. It is a good marketing tool. I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk. My only concern is that it might be a bubble that may burst all of a sudden.
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I set up a profile last week, and was immediately followed by a dozen or so people who are folling x thousand and are followed by x thousand. I think the idea is that they follow you so that you feel obligated to follow them, thus running up their "followed by" numbers. But do those numbers really pay off? My impression was that it's much like an open mic night at a bar. Such things are usually done on nights when there's no business, and so the only people you have in the room are a dozen musicians and their girlfriends. They completely ignore who's playing and are only interested in their own 15 minutes, so even if the room is full, it's much like playing to an empty room (which is why I never played open mic gigs).
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua!
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I set up a profile last week, and was immediately followed by a dozen or so people who are folling x thousand and are followed by x thousand. I think the idea is that they follow you so that you feel obligated to follow them, thus running up their "followed by" numbers. But do those numbers really pay off? My impression was that it's much like an open mic night at a bar. Such things are usually done on nights when there's no business, and so the only people you have in the room are a dozen musicians and their girlfriends. They completely ignore who's playing and are only interested in their own 15 minutes, so even if the room is full, it's much like playing to an empty room (which is why I never played open mic gigs).
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua!
Christopher Duncan wrote:
But do those numbers really pay off?
Seems to be. Otherwise you will never be asked in a interview for a marketing post: "Have you ever used Twitter in a Marketing campaign?". I had bunch of people follow me. But I did not follow them in return unless I found that the made interesting tweets which are of interest to me. I think it works best when you make good intelligent spam free posts, you follow people who might be interested in what you are trying to market and they follow you.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
But do those numbers really pay off?
Seems to be. Otherwise you will never be asked in a interview for a marketing post: "Have you ever used Twitter in a Marketing campaign?". I had bunch of people follow me. But I did not follow them in return unless I found that the made interesting tweets which are of interest to me. I think it works best when you make good intelligent spam free posts, you follow people who might be interested in what you are trying to market and they follow you.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like high school and worrying about who's cool and who's not, which lunch table you sit at, etc. It was pretty stupid in high school, and it's got to be doubly or trebly(?) stupid now. On top of that, none of this is real! At least on open mic night, it's really you onstage, and there may (or may not) be real, live people in the room. This is just a string of characters delivered via email from some electronic host. No one really "knows" who is on the other end!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
But do those numbers really pay off?
Seems to be. Otherwise you will never be asked in a interview for a marketing post: "Have you ever used Twitter in a Marketing campaign?". I had bunch of people follow me. But I did not follow them in return unless I found that the made interesting tweets which are of interest to me. I think it works best when you make good intelligent spam free posts, you follow people who might be interested in what you are trying to market and they follow you.
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I'm sorry, but this sounds like high school and worrying about who's cool and who's not, which lunch table you sit at, etc. It was pretty stupid in high school, and it's got to be doubly or trebly(?) stupid now. On top of that, none of this is real! At least on open mic night, it's really you onstage, and there may (or may not) be real, live people in the room. This is just a string of characters delivered via email from some electronic host. No one really "knows" who is on the other end!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
Jim Crafton wrote:
I'm sorry, but this sounds like high school and worrying about who's cool and who's not
There might be some element of that in it. But it is not entirely the case.
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I set up a profile last week, and was immediately followed by a dozen or so people who are folling x thousand and are followed by x thousand. I think the idea is that they follow you so that you feel obligated to follow them, thus running up their "followed by" numbers. But do those numbers really pay off? My impression was that it's much like an open mic night at a bar. Such things are usually done on nights when there's no business, and so the only people you have in the room are a dozen musicians and their girlfriends. They completely ignore who's playing and are only interested in their own 15 minutes, so even if the room is full, it's much like playing to an empty room (which is why I never played open mic gigs).
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua!
Here is something you might be interested in: http://blogs.openforum.com/2009/04/19/how-to-demo-twitter/[^] Especially because advertising with no money is one of your favorite topic. ;)
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bulg wrote:
my cell phone
I am lost!:confused:
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bulg wrote:
my cell phone
I am lost!:confused:
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How does cellphone picture in this conversation?
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How does cellphone picture in this conversation?
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what?? how do you use twitter without a cell phone? I know there are websites, but isn't the point to be able to do everything with SMS?
bulg wrote:
but isn't the point to be able to do everything with SMS?
Although you can do it. I don't want to use SMS for twitter. I don't want to pay for the junk messages first of all and it does not appeal to me. Twitter is a website and there are several tools to use it and that's what I do.
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Using Twitter to launch a restaurant.[^] After using twitter for a while, I have the following conclusions:- 1. If you follow updates from certain people you do learn a lot. I have gained good bit from Guy Kawasaki's tweets as he posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, funding etc which interests me these days. 2. It is a good marketing tool. I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk. My only concern is that it might be a bubble that may burst all of a sudden.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, fundin
Certainly no shortage of those type tweets out there. :laugh:
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what?? how do you use twitter without a cell phone? I know there are websites, but isn't the point to be able to do everything with SMS?
DestroyTwitter[^], for people who like real keyboards. :)
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, fundin
Certainly no shortage of those type tweets out there. :laugh:
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Here is something you might be interested in: http://blogs.openforum.com/2009/04/19/how-to-demo-twitter/[^] Especially because advertising with no money is one of your favorite topic. ;)
Namaste (or Vannacum) Sri Rama, An interesting thread. I have yet to Twitter, and I don't think I ever will. The idea of it, to me, is equivalent to letting a horde of strangers be all able to talk in terse sentences directly into my ears any time they want. Yes, I'm an old crank now, I guess. This quote from the link to Kawasaki's article you posted : "This is year three of Twitter. In a sense, it’s like the Internet was fifteen years ago. Remember when people said, “Why would I go to a web site when newspapers and magazines come to my house, I can see people in person or talk to them on the phone, get driving instructions by looking at my AAA map, and buy books by going to the mall?” That’s where we are right now." I find truly hilarious. One thing the ebullient former jewelery salesman from Hawaii never lacked was astounding grandiosity :) If Twitter is the future, I am antiquity ! best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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Using Twitter to launch a restaurant.[^] After using twitter for a while, I have the following conclusions:- 1. If you follow updates from certain people you do learn a lot. I have gained good bit from Guy Kawasaki's tweets as he posts about Entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, funding etc which interests me these days. 2. It is a good marketing tool. I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk. My only concern is that it might be a bubble that may burst all of a sudden.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I am sure there is a lot of junk on it but the trick is to properly shield yourself from the junk.
You can follow me: i guarantee you, i post no junk... ;-)
If I can find you? What is your id?