I keep on hearing about Twitter being the social media format of choice and that it is a great way to spread the word about your product or service via online marketing. I have a Twitter account set up - www.twitter.com/criticalillness. I have been following other Twitter users and they immediately follow me which shows that there is clearly some etiquette in place. There seems to be a lot of Twitter users who have hundreds if not thousands of followers and they in turn are following equal amounts of users.
When I check my page there is a steady stream of updates that come through and if I am honest more than I can follow up. I am only following 29 accounts so how do you manage when over a thousand accounts are sending updates through?
I am sceptical about the whole process and wonder if it is just a case of firing messages off into cyberspace that no one will ever see. Is it a case of trying to have as many followers as possible which then makes you look ‘popular?’ I want to join in on the experiment and see what happens.
Can anyone tell me if they have had good results from Twitter that can be directly attributed to Twitter?
14. April 2009 at 5:32 pm
try using tweet deck – @tweetdeck – not sure if you have already but you can categorize your followers etc into groups and manage all the updates so you can view friends/work related/ other etc etc and all the @replies and direct messages seperately. Thats good for initial organisation and then after that Im with you – purely experimenting to see if we can network further with our industry. I would be interested in peoples feedback to you post