Do You Feel Like A Twit When You Tweet?

[mjtaylor]

My morning inbox included a note from Twitter and the opening lines amused me:


French impressionist Claude Monet said, "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her." Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once asked, "Why has elegance found so little following?" More recently, @ladygaga sings "I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me."

Other newsy notes (as you may well know from your own inbox) “followed” including an item about a feature that suggests other Twits who may interest you.

http://twitter.com/invitations/twitter_suggests?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=find_suggestions&utm_campaign=2010ed3

I do find Twitter useful for driving traffic, and it seems to help new pages get indexed - though post Caffeine, I don't find I need as much help in that direction very often. I don't use it often enough, but then I am rather stuck in forums.

Do you have a success story to share? Are you finding Twitter effective these days or do you feel like something of a Twit when you Tweet? What sort of Tweets do you make? And Twitter Tips?

[kgun]

What bird is a Twit? I once wanted to study ornithology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithology). So little is known about birds and what would a nordic spring have been without blackbirds and other birds singing?



Do you have a success story to share? Are you finding Twitter effective these days or do you feel like something of a Twit when you Tweet?
I have no time to study the effect and don't know.



What sort of Tweets do you make? And Twitter Tips?
You see a typical new tweet and similar social bookmark on my site [kjellbleivik.com (http://www.kjellbleivik.com/)/] (The way you want our links).

[morestar]

I love Twitter so much for what it's worth. I like the fact that Tweets are being tracked and logged and analyzed too because there are literally millions who do Tweet and that data is obviously quite useful especially on a whole...

I personally don't track much with Twitter but it's great that you can say hello (Tweet) to great and amazing people on the planet who have decided to have a Twitter account too...like Deepak Chopra (http://twitter.com/DeepakChopra) - I was glad to be able to say hello to him today!

Twitter has opened the doors of communication for us quite wide...

:)

[briguy]

I do find Twitter useful for driving traffic, and it seems to help new pages get indexed - though post Caffeine, I don't find I need help in that direction very often. I don't use it often enough, but then I am rather stuck in forums.


I been finding that after I make a "attention getting" or a "controversial" tweet with my blog URl..I seem to get visits to that URL that seem to peak within 5 minutes of that tweet!

I also been using "old adages" as a filler between my main tweets such as "Marketing is what you pay for and publicity is what you pray for. (old adage)! " Just to keep my account somewhat active!

As for "Do you feel like a Twit when you tweet"? Well to me, twitter just a "tool" that I use..more of a business tool than personal tool.

[chandrika]

Its just another faceless social networking site, where plenty of people put up profiles and you dont know whether you are following them or someone who says it is them.

[mjtaylor]

What bird is a Twit?

I don't think there is a bird called a twit. It's a British term of humourous endearment for a foolish person. "Oh, you can be such a silly twit, you know," I sometimes say to my image in the mirror.

[ronchalice]

I think a big part of how well Twitter works for your business is what your business is. I don't know a single Twitter user who wants to see a tweet from an "online marketing guru", a "social media expert", a "make money on the internet rock star."

What people I know do want to see Tweets about are new products from brands they follow, honest communication about product challenges and recalls, and "how to" links to get the most out of products they already have.

Moderation is also a very good word. If somebody wants to follow one of my accounts and their profile regularly shows more than 2-3 tweets an hour, they're "outta there" as far as I'm concerned.

I guess I don't see Twitter as much a way of cold selling something as a way to maintain the business relationships built through other vehicles.

[mjtaylor]

Oh, but I get loads of great SEO news from Twits. I mean, Tweets.

[morestar]

With Twitter, I get my satisfaction in checking out my new followers, then checking out their Tweets and if they talk about the weather, their new shoes and how much fun they had in the park with their children I'm much more likely to follow them.

[astro]

Ignoring the lot of 'em, social networking that is. But I do have a forum called That darn cat.

I have no desire to be a twit nor do I feel the need to tweet, facebook leaves me cold, I have no need to know so and so's farm just harvested apples and the cow gave birth. (how sweet) I joined Facebook and instantly arch rivals who were sticking pins in a doll of me last year wanted to be my friends....Huh?? I am now a faceless person.

I tried blogging and got bored with it. In spite of this and without a single tweet or gormless face entry, the total lack of social marketing of any kind, my website generated a 40% increase in business in a shrinking market place this year. You go figure because my head hurts trying.

You know, call me an old cynic....( please!:) ) whilst there are many genuine people out there there are also people acting out a life they would like to live in the real world. Maybe you should offer a free copy of "the Sims" for those clients and hope they go away. How can you know who is who, or the traffic increase benefits directly or just increases footfall? What is more it's your bandwidth they are playing with. In a recent survey we spend on avererage 45% of our waking hours a week on social networking and social media in one format or another. How sad it that?

Now of course google joins the twit world with something similar only different......oh dear, maybe time to retire, I cannot keep up with all this play acting in cyberspace. Give me the "ask the search engine a question, click on the result that suits, then fill in the enquiry form, receive the quote and place the order (or not) people" any day. You know where you are with them.

Twitface's...not for me, sorry! well not really, but I am polite :) Now off to do a little social netwoking with a fish or if lucky maybe two!

/astro

[kgun]

I don't think there is a bird called a twit. It's a British term of humourous endearment for a foolish person. "Oh, you can be such a silly twit, you know," I sometimes say to my image in the mirror.
And I never thought it was a bird, but birds twitter ... :roll:

[Lorel509]

I use twitter to link to new articles on my website or blog but I also follow other twitterers in my niche and then look for blog posts whereI might add to the discussion and get links that way also. Some of the links might be no=followed but hopefully they will bring traffic.

[briguy]

Oh, but I get loads of great SEO news from Twits. I mean, Tweets.

Taking it you're following some SEO Forums..
I get a kick of those tweets.."See how I got 10000 followers ..(link)" then when I check out their followers list...they have maybe 157 followers lol!

Tried thanking you mjtaylor in a PM for your help but
mjtaylor has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

[mjtaylor]

Taking it you're following some SEO Forums..
I get a kick of those tweets.."See how I got 10000 followers ..(link)" then when I check out their followers list...they have maybe 157 followers lol!

Tried thanking you mjtaylor in a PM for your help but
mjtaylor has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

That's odd. The old forum alerted us when we were close to full. I will clear some space. :)

[nickoran]

I think a big part of how well Twitter works for your business is what your business is. I don't know a single Twitter user who wants to see a tweet from an "online marketing guru", a "social media expert", a "make money on the internet rock star."



Agreed that its about whats relevant to people and the nature of twitter all together, It does help with pretty much all companies I use it for, although im sure there are ones which would be inappropriate, but definitly some more than others.
some businesses just dont have the updates that make it relevant to tweet every 5 minutes. some industries just lend themselves better to social media alltogether i guess. and yes I love the marketing tweets! haha

[astro]

And I never thought it was a bird, but birds twitter ... :roll:

Unless it is an owl which hoots.......or doves which coo or there again crows and rooks which caw...... magpies chatter....Geese honk......ducks quack.......the haunting cry of the curlew ;)

But what the heck do ostrich's do? twitter just does not seem to fit the bill as it were! :?

swifts call......Phesants cackle........ did I mention owls hoot?.

/astro :)

[astro]

LLamas spit......did i say that?

Ah yes! Swallows twitter! yes! yes!...knew I would get there!

But whatever the case I cannot bring myself to tweet or twitter on facetweet.

/astro

[smluv3]

I have Twitter integrated with Facebook, so each time I post on Facebook it appears automatically on Twitter. However, one tweet per day is not enought to be noticed so I tweet on the regular hours to be proved the best for tweets.