Monday, July 13, 2009

Thing 2 : Twitter

I searched for friends using email addresses and found 2 friends, so I invited some contacts. My username is ymarteacha... I have not hooked it up to my phone because I dont know how much I will be charged. So until I call the cell phone company I am keeping my tweets going to the email (for now).

I see this very handy in the business world. I personally think its a bit rude to tweet while in a class or like congress does in meetings. It is great way to stay in touch with friends and family - I have no children but I would bet that teen girls crave it!

I'm not sure how I would use this professionally - but it will be interesting to see how I can. Maybe I will find some well known artists to follow...

2 comments:

Otto said...

I would probably go nuts with twitter. My phone already gets all emails from work and home. Sometimes it gets pretty hectic so adding twitter might just put this old guy over the edge.

Jim Dornberg said...

I'm on Twitter for a variety of reasons, both personal and professional. I keep in touch with out of town friends, ask questions, give answers, share websites, commiserate,the list goes on and on.

What's interesting is how many people I have found and added to my "network" over the past year, either by following a friend of a person I'm already following, or finding a twitter username on someone's blog, wiki, or website.

Even businesses are on twitter, providing updates, handling customer or tech support, sharing coupon codes, or just getting feedback from their customers.

Most people, including myself, don't "get" Twitter when they first start using it. Just hang in there, connect with others, and watch the magic happen!