Comments on: The Twouble with Twitter

By: Chad Horenfeldt

Chad Horenfeldt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:04:11 +0000

Twitter can be addictive. There are simple tips that you learn to make it more manageable. For example: only seeing replies from those people that you follow (that’s twitspeak!)

In terms of marketing, you need to decide how it fits into your overall marketing strategy. I’ve written a post on 10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing as a tactic that is part of a social media strategy.

Overall, I find Twitter very rewarding. I have a better sense of what is on the mind of customers, prospects, competitors and a colleague who sits right beside me. It’s a whole new way of sharing information – you just need to know how to manage it.
@chadhorenfeldt

By: Verity

Verity — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:32:38 +0000

Awesome post. I LOVE the graphic. I’ve just become really addicted this year. I would say I’m a 80% lurker, but I tend to reply to other people’s tweets a lot. I’ve been playing with the amount of people I follow, and have recently fed my tweets into Facebook for my status updates. I love finding out about cool design, artists, news, events etc via Twitter.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:55:22 +0000

Mo great post! Noel why is that I was forget that your frickin hilarious.

By: kc

kc — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:42:48 +0000

Loved your post…I enjoy being a Twitter lurker as well. I like seeing what’s going on especially in the news and insightful/entertaining tidbits! I have a hard time believing that anyone cares what I am doing…

By: noel

noel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:38:28 +0000

People think it’s funny but it wastes time and money.
Twitterhea — Twitterhea ….

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:08:51 +0000

It’s culture blended with the industry it’s in, @eroi has proven easier to juggle the contexts of my tweets, mostly because we are all quite social professionals here. There are obviously some no-no’s like obviously don’t bitch about clients and don’t call in sick after tweeting about your boozed out escapades the night before, but common sense usually keeps me in line. Perhaps it’s not an issue since @eroi is the only one listening to me anyway but if I had to be more selective about my online audience, I would recommend dividing my personality into two distinct profiles (professional/social). I’m pretty paranoid anyway so I think requiring authorization to view my tweets is a given and is a great way to stay out of trouble.

I admit it, i’m guilty of un-following people with Twitterhea… I really don’t care what every paragraph of an article says …. in real-time. sigh.

By: Mai

Mai — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:02:29 +0000

I had fun reading your post Mo! One thing that really annoys me with Twitter right now are all the companies trying to follow EVERYONE that’s not even in the same interest… I always check out their profiles but never follow back.

Also, spammers! If we don’t follow you spammers, we won’t get your spam tweets. Duh?!

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:52 +0000

Wow. Okay, I know I’m behind the times on this one, but I’m totally okay to not use Twitter. My attention span is so short as it is I think it would drive me nuts.

Here’s a thought: if there’s Twitterhea, what’s the answer, the alter-ego? Twitter-Bismol?

By: Ryan Buchanan

Ryan Buchanan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:52:56 +0000

Twitterhea – I love that phrase. Sometimes, I too can get Twitterhea and it gets nasty. Sorry, just want to establish the point that some of us are just over-sharers and get a chuckle out of it. I’m personally a fan of learning stuff from others on Twitter as resources – URLs – or personal tidbits that are entertaining or heart-warming or shocking. All good.