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  1. Great talking points about the Twitter platform and marketing! I was speaking with a local entrepreneur yesterday, and showed him TipTop’s real-time social search tool and he was amazed at how effective http://feeltiptop.com was at finding people interested in buying and selling his product as well as the ease of which the competition could be targeted. It is fascinating to see how people query, view and use search results differently!

  2. Tron

    I don’t know anyone who uses it. Judging from his Twitter page, the one person who invited me to tweet only tweets about the burrito he ate for lunch, running errands, and other things I don’t have time for. I’m affluent, educated, comfortable with technology, and in my mid 40′s. I don’t get it.

    • Elliott

      I agree with you 100%. I do not accept any of this garbage, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. All this social media is dumbing down America.

  3. I don’t know anyone that uses Twitter either. Most people are more comfortable with Facebook but there are still many of my friends that won’t make time for Facebook either. It’s too much just to keep up with your friends on Facebook, now Twitter. No way…I don’t have time.

  4. How twitter help me to promote and increase traffic on my Ayurvedic Herbal Product website.

    pls tell

  5. We are in the golden age of twitter where millions have discovered it but millions more will still be tuning in and turning onto it

  6. Although being in the internet marketing industry most of us use it as a selling tool.

    Usually we practice what we preach, but on this instant and subject we dont use twitter and use facebook and rarely twit.
    But its more of a unique marketing ploy that the media has overblown its importance.

    Personally I think the that the water around the marketing boat is gone and there is really no fresh water coming into the channel.
    In other words I really havent seen anything totally exciting that would really change the way we work.

  7. Hey everyone,
    Interesting and diverse posts.
    I Twitter and enjoy it, but like everything else, there is a time and place for Twittering.
    Know why you are on Twitter in the first place, then work from there.

    If you want to just connect randomly, that’s fine.
    Want to grow or highlight your business, you need to be more focused
    and of course more professional too.

    As I said, I like Twitter, because I like and find people interesting.
    Let us not forget that Twitter is made up of people, something for everyone in
    one place!
    Thanks for the opportunity to post.
    Regards

  8. The Social Media is a tool used by Roman Newspaper’s such as the “tribune” Everytime I present a new idea or concept they attempt to discredit with a bunch of questionable people shady chracters Science is based on laws not theory and while we are on the topic Tacoma Newstribume you are always in my business the article about darwin whales/sharks and constant’s here is a thought for these shady people Darwin is a theory not a law you have had over 100 plus years to prove it you cannot because you attempt to explain the Universe through our eye’s not through other objectives You ever heard of the 2nd law of thermo dynamics basically something has to come from something so we came from nothing what a brilliant concept that takes a lot more faith than accepting other ideas here is another observation if we evolved from monkeys how come you cannot find the missing links and why didn’t the whole species evolve as a whole ? explaining the orgins of the Universe through anthropothic means is fraud such as your newspaper. I recently written a paper regarding Einstein’s theory e=mc2. Public Servants such as the newspaper’s need to practice the same concept’s objectivity which they do not practice

  9. Joons

    as an internet marketer I try pretty much everything to see if it can help my various ventures but i just don’t get how twitter can help me – as a pure “social” network tool I can see some use for some but i’ve yet to crack the code on how & if it applies to what i do

  10. NavCaster

  11. I have found twitter useful in contacting people about my music
    Eddie Miller

  12. Hi,

    I am an artist and love the idea of marketing yourself, but twitter is too dole for me.
    I like http://www.tagged.com
    more then any other social networking site, even more the best out of all is http://www.jango.com/music/Fely+Tchaco?l=0

    I am not perfect in writing, make mistakes some time in my vocabulary and grammar, even dough I have my own music business, I don’t want to feel ridiculous in front of other people who have heard of me for the first time.

    I like social networking sites where you can flirt, and meet people with same interest at the same time promoting yourself in whatever field you are, by displaying pictures and other informations.

    I agree with Tron, I love interacting with educated people who can teach me something in the area I am interested in.

    I am still trying to understand how Twitter work, as soon I as I get it, maybe I will sign up.

  13. We tried ‘twitter‘ and found it to be just one more ‘in’ thing that proved to be totally worthless, even among our own staff!

    Because we’re Akurians, we hit every stonewall ‘twitter‘ could come up with in getting ‘registered’ that only added to the waste of our time and effort.

    Once ‘registered’ the spam from ‘twitter‘ – not tweeters – never stopped. We finally shut the doors and told the whole ‘twitter‘ process to go to hell.

    General Bobby Farrell.

  14. Jose Santos

    Hi, well Facebook, twitter and all those social media never work, fisrt when I learn everything about social media and started to put all of this in practice, a client told me this “well I need a lot of friends even imaginary friends to make facebook work, twitter the same, and I start to follow hundreds of people but no one follows me, my clients always contact me by e-mail as me as newsletter because is so easy to use and fast, because social media have to open an account manage that, your clients have to learn how to use it and cross fingers, maybe for youths and famous work, but not for contact clients because no one want to follow or be friend of a stranger in a strange land … conclusion, faceFook”

    As a web developer and adviser for SME and newsletter service provider, money and time get married and people want mass marketing but cheap and easy, SME want things that make strange clients on a strange land and/or strange clients on a known land.

    Most of my clients are from the steel, metal-mechanic parts, forestal equipment, naturist stores and mini-market industry … so who want to be friend or follow a “steel-man” ???? of course, NO ONE !!!!!

    Thanks and anyway it is a good post.

    • anon

      You are not going to do very well in english speaking markets on Twitter.

      • anon

        make that “can’t” (typo)

      • Guest

        hehehe I have a lot of things to do and I dont like to use 5 languages every day …. cheers.

  15. Guest

    If you want to have visibility in your niche all 2.0 web tools are helpful.
    Of course you have to learn how to use these tools effectively and understand the concept behind the various interactive social networking sites. It is an art in itself to network and share on a personal and on a business level. You can achieve a lot and you can have a lot of fun as well. Maybe the most important aspect is that you can reach people across the globe and access information and contend like never before in history!
    I am grateful for all that the Internet has to offer.

  16. 2007: myspace
    2008: facebook
    2009: twitter
    2010: ???????
    I’m curious to see what ends up filling in the? blank here.

    • Guest

      end of society as we know it

  17. Frank

    So I have submitted my site to one thousand search enginges and directories. Then I oppened 200 bookmarking accounts so I could bookmark and say nice things about my pages, (from someone elses perspective). Now I am bieng guided to twiiter where I can share my joyous marketing message and raise my brand awarness , mostly to thousands of other misguided non thinking internet marketers like myself. And… I have whole hour or two left over in the day to actually develop products that people actually might want or find valuable. Ahh life is good.

  18. I’ve been using Twitter to socially market my safety and security web site for some time now. I have to say it can be a bit frustrating trying to figure out how to get the results you’re looking for. I’ve heard success stories but haven’t written one of my own yet. Thanks, Chris, for some great tips.

    • Guest

      It’s because they just want you to buy something they are promoting. They don’t really care if you make money with their product or not.

  19. Guest

    JUST LOOK AT ITS WELCOME PAGE. NOTHING THERE REALLY.

  20. Interesting to note that Twitter has become increasingly important. Will twit more from now.

  21. Maybe it’s because I’ve been offline this last week… but I am struck by the negativity in the choice of wording of your recent article titles. I’m sure you know that it’s Writing Efficiency 101 to always focus on the positive simply because, nearly every time, it takes less words to say it in a positive way, than a negative.

    I mean, maybe you do this intentionally… I suppose, “You Need To Stop Ignoring Twitter” may sound more sensational than, “8 Reasons Twitter Is Essential” or something like that.

    I’ve found a lot of online writers can’t write a title to save their life. You’re usually better than most, which is probably why I’m picking on you… because there’s still hope. But don’t slip into those bad habits.

    Hope you aren’t offended. As a pro, you know professional critique can only help.

    Cheers!

    Mo

  22. I do not use Twitter. Our customers do not use Twitter. When it comes to heavy industrial B2B selling, I believe Twitter is a waste of time. In our target market segments, the use of Twitter would be a classic case of confusing activity with accomplishment. B2C selling of consumer products may indeed be a different case.

  23. Guest

    Social media in general lacks data on sales conversion and until published, quantifiable information is available it’s just a bunch of noise. I agree with previous poster on confusing activity with accomplishment – very well put.

  24. Printing Dude

    stop sending a hundred million f*&^% tweets every ten minutes to your followers.

    Its obvious you have employees that are paid to spam the living hell out of your followers, and though im a techie, software guy, and online enteprenuer, i HAD TO STOP FOLLOWING YOU because you dont respect the time of your followers. I would like to read the tweets of other people too and now I can now that i have unglogged my screen with your thousands tweets/hr approach.

    • Yelwrose

      Printing Dude: Can I say, AMEN!? I stopped following Guy for exactly that reason and I have unfollowed many others for the same reason. Automated tweets are ok, but not every few seconds! Auto DMS are just plain wrong.

  25. cormac

    You can give me 100 reasons and I’ll still ignore it. I have enough pointless clutter in my life already thanks.

  26. Hey Troy, here is one great way to use Twitter without having to just talk about the burrito anyone ate for lunch. Mount Everest is now on twitter offering anyone who climbs the mountain free use of the twitter account during their climb to broadcast their mission to the world and to give the world a window into the lives of the climbers. All the tweets will be kept as a permanent record for years to come. If you are a climber its a great way to always be able to permanently show the world you where there.

  27. Diogo

    You wrote all that and still forgot to mention twitter is merely a school girl’s online diary. I doubt theres any serious advantage in terms of marketing since most people just wanna know about other people’s lives, not read market spam. If you actually managed to bring some attention your product, good for you, but i dont see how this poorly made social network is gonna achieve anything big in terms of business growth unless they make it user-friendly (its horrible to use) and add some proper features which allows businesses to market without harassing the comunity, which they do.

  28. Guest

    I am not sure what to write. But it was a good article.

  29. Twitter is a fantastic idea, that moves Freedom of Speech forward, with an individual or business.

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