Do you twitter more to market yourself or for fun?
Sometimes I wonder if I would be using Twitter if I didn't have a blog. I enjoy it and do get into some fun conversations, especially during "events", I use it mainly for marketing purposes. I just reviewed a great book on Twitter called Twitter Power http://connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com/2009/03/twitter-power-book... which gives great insight into using twitter for marketing. However, sometimes I think I should stop making everything about marketing and forget I have a blog once in a while.
How do you use twitter?
How do you use twitter?
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Permalink Reply by Indre Ashley on -
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Permalink Reply by Marlene M. Linke on -
Having only been on twitter and TwitterMoms a short while, I notice there seems to be a pervasive undercurrent of an almost pop culture type ideology. By far and large, the number of people I see on twitter are always communicating, buy this!, read this!, share this!, watch me!, see me!, listen to me! Everyone is shouting their tweets as loud as they can in attempts to gain exposure for themselves and the resulting notoriety of having a flock of followers; a race as to who has more. One of the worst is PDiddy. He is one of the most narcissistic megalomaniacs I've ever witnessed. He posts on average every 4 minutes routing his readers to everything he views on You Tube, all of the live action recordings of his album development process and asking his readers to vote for him as Twitter King. He also has a nauseating habit of providing blow by blow (pardon the pun) details of his lovemaking (TMI!). It is becoming a narcissistic phenomenon that everyone feels that the whole world wants to know their every move; as if their lives are the embodiment of an epic novel. Dr. Drew Pinsky has just written a book on the current state of our narcissistic culture and the delusional behavior it's cultivating. I totally understand if you read this and think that I've offered a much longer answer than you were expecting. You're welcome to view this post as equally guilty of pontification! I guess I'm also being swept away by the societal tide!
By the way, here's an article from Digg on the 14 types of Twitter Personalities
http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalit...
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on -
Thanks for your answer. I've stopped following people that twitter too often unless I really enjoyed their tweets. That is why over twittering really is a bad marketing ploy because it turns people off.
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Permalink Reply by Tami Leckbee on -
I twitter once a day for business....the rest of my twitters are for fun or in response to other twitterers postings. Great conversation! Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/Aisle19_mom
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on -
I just started using Twitter (and Twitter Moms) fairly recently, but I guess it's a little from column A and a little from column B :-) Which I think is probably for the best... if you're all about business, you're probably not going to be very interesting :-) Of course, it's fine if it's just for fun... but I'm just way too entrepreneurial in nature to have some kind of ulterior motive, in addition to having fun :-p
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on
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The funny thing is, Dr. Drew is quite the twitterer himself :-p Which is totally fine... but, I kind of hate it when people call other people narcissists, just because they blog this, or twitter that about their lives. It kind of reminds me of the old couple who calls up the cable company to complain about the porn channel saying, "We watched it for 6 hours and it was disgusting!" :-p If you're not interested in someone, don't follow them... but, I just don't see any harm in putting yourself out there, sharing your life, and possibly meeting other people with similar interests. Sure, I talk a lot about myself and what's going on in my life, in the hopes of interesting other people in my life.... but I also go around to other people's blogs and twitters and facebooks, etc. commenting on things they've written about their lives. I don't consider that being narcissistic... I consider that being social...
Just my two cents :-p
Marlene M. Linke said:Having only been on twitter and TwitterMoms a short while, I notice there seems to be a pervasive undercurrent of an almost pop culture type ideology. By far and large, the number of people I see on twitter are always communicating, buy this!, read this!, share this!, watch me!, see me!, listen to me! Everyone is shouting their tweets as loud as they can in attempts to gain exposure for themselves and the resulting notoriety of having a flock of followers; a race as to who has more. One of the worst is PDiddy. He is one of the most narcissistic megalomaniacs I've ever witnessed. He posts on average every 4 minutes routing his readers to everything he views on You Tube, all of the live action recordings of his album development process and asking his readers to vote for him as Twitter King. He also has a nauseating habit of providing blow by blow (pardon the pun) details of his lovemaking (TMI!). It is becoming a narcissistic phenomenon that everyone feels that the whole world wants to know their every move; as if their lives are the embodiment of an epic novel. Dr. Drew Pinsky has just written a book on the current state of our narcissistic culture and the delusional behavior it's cultivating. I totally understand if you read this and think that I've offered a much longer answer than you were expecting. You're welcome to view this post as equally guilty of pontification! I guess I'm also being swept away by the societal tide!
By the way, here's an article from Digg on the 14 types of Twitter Personalities
http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalit...
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Permalink Reply by Diane Brixey on -
I started for business but have found that it is very fun and addictive. But what could be better than making money to care for your family and having fun at the same time.
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Permalink Reply by catherinezm on -
Hi - an interesting topic - I am a newbie in Twitter and am using it as a friendly and interesting place to be, asking questions on things that interest me, retweeting useful links, etc. I'm pleased that someone said they delete tweeters who post too often - I've felt that this is "bad" somehow but agree totally that there are some who are far too difficult (and uninteresting?) to follow. The marketing side is interesting but there're a lot of people out there doing it badly and are just off-putting.
CatherineZM
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Permalink Reply by Nicki on -
I tweet more for fun. I also do it to keep up to date on politics (CNN & NPR) and to keep up with FDA recalls. I do post my blog posts there occasionally.
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Permalink Reply by susie smith on -
I definitely use twitter for fun and business. Sometimes I delete twitters who only seem to be "pimping" their business, because it gets boring.
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Permalink Reply by amh on -
I use twitter to promote my blog but mainly to just connect with interesting people around the world. There are so many interesting people I have met and the ones I have met in real life are just like they are in their tweets. For me it's an addiction and my husband now has the affliction too.
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Permalink Reply by Brooke & Lorri - Z. Daisy on -
We're new to Twitter - just joined in the last few months. We originally joined as a business, but don't only use it for business purposes. It's great to just connect with other moms/people, throw out questions or talk about things that are happening at home. We do throw in stuff about our business too but are conscious of trying not to overdue it. Social networking is definitely something we're trying to wrap our brains around! In general, Twitter is growing on me and it's really FUN!!
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