Still experimenting with twitter, but since I'm fascinated with metrics, I was amused to see I've "tweeted" 333 updates - half the magic number of 666. What does it all mean?
But in all seriousness, I'm finding twitter works well for me in providing another avenue to an audience that may not want to get formal (or informal) e-mail from me. And the serendipity aspect of posting to twitter, and appearing in the public timeline, may be helping me to expand my blog (and work) audience outside of the normal confines of work.
Curious to hear how others are using twitter. Personally, I don't have the time to follow twitter as some do, as a way to keep a dripped update of friends and family. It's too much of a diversion for me, but perhaps I just haven't understood how best to dip my toes into the "flow" (as comrade Stowe Boyd calls it), to make more of twitter than I am currently.
Anyone care to share tips? (URLs or written commentary, as you like)
You can find me on twitter at www.twitter.com/dankeldsen as well.
Another great line, "dripped". I have been able to convince my parents to get addicted to my "dripped" life. A way for them to keep up with me (and vica versa) without having to devote a 30-90 minute section of my day for "catching-up". Im interested to see how our phone conversations change due to this...
I also find twitter useful for organizing groups. When a certain amount of friends are using it, something as simple as "wanna go to the movies?" becomes so easy and so much better than ringing everyone.
On the work side, the same thing applies. I can tweet my team "who is in the office to meet with so and so". Everyone gets the message wherever they are and we all see who covers the meeting.
Finally, marketing. Just convinced a friend starting up a music magazine to get on twitter and use that in the same way they use their email newsletters. Could do much more than that, but its interesting how similar a tweet is to an email newsletter...
Posted by: Steven Mandzik | December 01, 2007 at 07:51 PM
Steve - Very interesting, all around. The combination of Twitter as an asynchronous AND synchronous medium holds a lot of possibility.
So, some follow-ups... how many friends need to be using Twitter, to make it possible to create a crowd to hit the movies?
For work, how are you getting tweets - via a dedicated app? (like Twitterific) Mobile/SMS? Piped into an IM system? E-mail notification? or just by checking your Twitter web acct?
And on the marketing front - definitely think this is a solid use case. Wouldn't use it as the only marketing outreach, but certainly as a component.
Thanks for the commentary - great to hear what you're doing with this.
Posted by: Dan Keldsen | December 01, 2007 at 09:45 PM