I am being encouraged to climb on board the Twitter phenomenon as a means of opening up opportunities and generating business. Gosh! I cannot keep up with the intellectually demanding advances of communication.

Is there anyone out there who can, in a couple of paragraphs, explain to the rest of us what Twitter does and if there are advantages to using it? In Nerdspeak please.

Mike

Well Twitter is useless for just joining and then sending the odd one liner about getting out of bed and taking the dog for a walk etc.

However, there are methods to find people that have your same interests.  You follow them and “hope” that they follow you back.
Thats how you build up a tribe of followers.  Then hopefully when you do talk about your particular interests its the same as your followers.
Put this in a business perspective and you can make money by attracting people to your offers etc.

Hope thats understandable 😊

rgds
Mick
http://www.mickgraham.net

linkin is the opportunities and generating business , and you can do free are pay a fee get the VIP plans

Facebook , Twitter are fun , social networking and micro-blogging service and if you looking to start own well need the Wiccle.com software

jurdy

Hi,

I am relatively new to Twitter myself and have read up a fair bit on it.  It seems to work well for certain businesses and is very similar to a regular blog in as much as you need to give it 6-12 months of regular updates before it really pays dividend.  Most twitter experts will recommend that you upload 4-6 industry specific ‘tweets’ per day to have any benefit to your company.  This sounds alot but if you are passionate about your business its actually quite easy.  You can link tweets to your blog, tweet about special offers, etc.  We have been on twitter for about 4 months and have managed to build a reasonable following, but more importantly you can keep up with competion.

hope it helps!

Face book and Twitter are a free social networking and micro-blogging , and would want careful what you say and your photos up put for work as you could fine yourself out off a job . . if you company. shop pub so on , you can have a fan base where blog daily

linkin is the opportunities and generating business 2 business

jurdy

I use LinkedIn for business and Facebook for personal (I maintain a corporate page at Facebook but use it far more for personal stuff especially since emigrating).  LinkedIn has brought me work and contacts, and is a good showcase for presentations and references, Facebook is just a lot of fun and a great way to keep in touch with friends you dont see regularly.

Twitter, I also operate a corporate account and have an app that cross posts whatever I put as my personal message on LinkedIn as a tweet… but to be honest I don’t feel I’ve truly got to grips with Twitter at all, the constant stream of info just seems like a bit of a mess and hard to filter and make sense of.  I think its good for spotting trends and searching for recent stuff on topics of interest, but you quickly end up following a whole bunch of people some of whom prolifically blurt out so much content, I don’t find it that useful so far.  Could be just that I don’t truly ‘get’ it yet though.

And wise words from Jurdy, whatever you post to any of these places, consider to be in the public domain for eternity, however much they try to make you feel in control with privacy settings etc,

Mx