My introduction to twitter was through general conversation with friends. None of them had joined but all present had a solid opinion all the same...it is for twats!...BUT I am not so sure...My second introduction was through my friend Andy, he is in the entrepreneurial market space and was qualified to have a valid take on the whole thing...so I joined.
To describe Twitter is difficult but here it goes.
It is a never ending list of posts from businesses and people...some are about having a cup of tea and others about real world tips and sales etc.
The system keeps comments brief and fast moving (140 characters only), called posts. These are either visible online or in other parts of the world as text messages.
The word "follower" is somewhat misleading in the sense that you are not actually visibly followed unless your follower happened to be sitting there at the moment a post is made...but it does feed a part of every ones ego...hey " I have 4000 followers" or as in Ashton Kutchers case 1000,000 followers !
I can imagine describing this to my Poppa, he'd be like..."What the hell! Who's following you..you mean to say you have 180 followers!" ...he was freaked out enough when I showed him google maps, when the satellite image map was over his house he wanted me to go outside and wave at him :-)
The unwritten assumption is that if you follow someone they will generally follow you...it does not always work that way and my follower numbers is about half of the number I am following.
As a first contact point it is better than Facebook, because there is less to look at, it is simple and every Tom, Dick and Harry is not sending you a request!
Why did I join? Well I have a product that appeals to the twitter generation and they don't happen to know about it !
My goal is to build a social network base by adding value where I can free of charge and in return I hope to have a network of people that I can send information too and eventually increase my products profile.
The catch is I don't have time to manage all these social networking tools but they are important all the same.
See my next blog post about saving time via automation.
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