Do You Twitter?

**dgridley** · 12-18-2008, 06:12 AM

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets),...

Twitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm currently have over 200 followers on Twitter. Everytime I twitter a link or page I'm surfing, Twitter automatically posts that page or link to all my followers allowing them to visit the link or read the post if the choose to.

Twitter is like a blog (it's a microblog actually) but you're typically limited to 140 to 240 characters, depending on how you send your Tweet. In that respect, it's almost like cell phone texting but you can "text" to multiple people or "followers" at the same time.

It's a lot of fun and one way to brand yourself on the Web. Many businesses twitter as well and you can receive their twitters by following them.

Check out this video:

YouTube - Twitter in Plain English

www.twitter.com

**dgridley** · 12-18-2008, 06:46 AM

You can follow me on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/daveincarthage

Do you Twitter? Post your Twitter URL here so we can follow you!

Kens Digital Media · 12-18-2008, 07:43 AM

I went to Twitter before but they want you to sign up first.

I agree it can be a good marketing tool for a business.

**dgridley** · 12-18-2008, 07:58 AM

I think anyone who's online can benefit from using Twitter.. you can even use it to show friends and family (provided they're following you on Twitter) what you're doing online during the day.. what you read and care about.

If you're interested in internet marketing, it can help you brand yourself, plus you can twitter any affiliate links or products you're promoting to your followers.

I use it everyday, all day.. used in conjunction with Twitter tools like BigTweet and Tweetdeck, I find it invaluable.

I even tweet alot of the posts I make to help promote the Bubbler.

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Originally Posted by Kens Digital Media

I went to Twitter before but they want you to sign up first.

I agree it can be a good marketing tool for a business.

Latina · 12-18-2008, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Kens Digital Media

I agree it can be a good marketing tool for a business.

I agree as well, if you promote or market online it may be a good site for you.

I don't promote or market & sure don't want anyone else knowing what sites i visit etc... otherwise i'd just tell them lol

I know people who twitter, but it's not for me.

**dgridley** · 12-18-2008, 09:38 AM

Well, they'd only see what you "twitter".. don't want it seen, don't twitter it. It's not just for links.. you can Twitter messages, like "Going to store", etc. In other words, it's just like a smaller version of a blog and similar to texting friends on your cell phone.

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Originally Posted by Latina

I agree as well, if you promote or market online it may be a good site for you.

I don't promote or market & sure don't want anyone else knowing what sites i visit etc... otherwise i'd just tell them lol

I know people who twitter, but it's not for me.

Latina · 12-18-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by dgridley

Well, they'd only see what you "twitter".. don't want it seen, don't twitter it. It's not just for links.. you can Twitter messages, like "Going to store", etc. In other words, it's just like a smaller version of a blog and similar to texting friends on your cell phone.

I know & I've been there hun, a friend had me sign up a while back, i left soon after, when i seen it was of no use to me. I would say its more like instant messenger blogging (combo of), more so than like cell phone texting myself.

**dgridley** · 12-31-2008, 11:04 AM

My Twitter (for twittAd.com) is worth $60.90 a month!

My 12/31/08 Twinfluence - Twitter Influence Analyzer score: Reach=634,515, Rank=#4,956

I have a Twitter grade of 96/100.

www.twitter.com/daveincarthage

**dgridley** · 12-31-2008, 11:08 AM

Not just for businesses, fun for chat or just to get a message out.. I have a potential reach of over 600,000 users at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Kens Digital Media

I went to Twitter before but they want you to sign up first.

I agree it can be a good marketing tool for a business.

**keith** · 12-31-2008, 11:28 AM

Twitter / WebForging

Regards,
Keith

**dgridley** · 12-31-2008, 03:54 PM

YouTube - Why do I Twitter?

**dgridley** · 12-31-2008, 03:57 PM

New-media expert Gaurav Mishra explains the role of new media, such as Twitter, in reporting breaking news in India.

YouTube - Twitter Journalism

**dgridley** · 12-31-2008, 03:58 PM

how To Be A Twitter Power User

YouTube - how to be a twitter power user!

**keith** · 01-02-2009, 10:27 AM

Thanks for the twitter updates, Dave.

It would be nice to integrate tweets there with Member info here.

Regards,
Keith

**dgridley** · 01-02-2009, 05:22 PM

I love Twitter, but find posting from the Web a pain (via www.twitter.com).. if I didn't use a Twitter client, I probably wouldn't have used it as much. Using Tweetdeck makes it just like using a messenger like Yahoo or MSN, except you're broadcasting to (in my case) over 600,000 people at once! It's alot of fun and I invariably leave Tweetdeck open in the background so I can tweet posts, urls, or what I'm doing when the mood strikes, plus I can interact with other "tweeters".

Great when you need help.. got a problem, just tweet it and someone will answer with a solution!

Twitter is also being used to twitter first hand accounts of the Gaza news, etc.

I have to admit.. when I first heard about Twitter, didn't interest me.. now I use it daily!

**dgridley** · 01-05-2009, 12:16 PM

My 01/05/09 http://twinfluence.com score: Reach=707,406, Rank=#5,520

If anyone here Twitters, feel free to twitter your relevant posts here to your followers. Every bit of exposure helps.. just don't spam, please!

As you can see from my Twinfluence score, my Tweets now reach almost 3/4's of a million second-order followers.

**dgridley** · 01-14-2009, 02:46 PM

I have a Twitter grade of 97.5 and my tweets now reach 891,000+ people on Twitter.. if you have a cause you're promoting, a product, or a blog/website, you can only benefit from using it.

I tweet a lot of the posts I make here for extra traffic and have made alot of local contacts on there as well.

Twitter isn't all business.. we talk about lots of things: tv shows, recipes, politics, etc. It's like Messenger except you're microblogging.

www.twitter.com

www.twitter.com/daveincarthage

here's Keith:

www.twitter.com/webforging

**keith** · 01-15-2009, 12:27 AM

I find that whenever I twitter a half dozen times or more in a day (and the tweets aren't innocuous) that I pick up a follower or two. They're often interesting in their own right. Hope to integrate something with that here and in our free WisFolks.com blogs.

Regards,
Keith

**keith** · 01-15-2009, 08:43 AM

www.twitter.com/webforging

Thanks for mentioning my twitter page, Dave.

Regards,
Keith

**dgridley** · 01-15-2009, 10:29 AM

Anyone else here have a Twitter page we can spotlight?

**dgridley** · 01-16-2009, 01:16 PM

My current Twitter grade is 97.6 out of 100.

Twitter rank is 4,690 (higher than 79% of Twitterers)

622 friends
438 followers
994,776 second-order followers (up from 891,000 yesterday)

**dgridley** · 01-18-2009, 12:36 PM

I asked Brent Spiner (@BrentSpiner, Data from Star Trek) on Twitter this morning if he could have been the lead in any classic (pre-1960) movie, which movie would he choose?

He replied "King Kong" (Figures he'd say that!)

Wil Wheaton (Ensign Crusher from Star Trek) is also on Twitter as @wilw

See attached pic

Twoaday · 01-18-2009, 05:13 PM

I though I posted this the other day. But my twitter account is:

Twitter / Twoaday
I've got a rank of 97.7
19114 out of 1,025,709

I use twitter everyday, generally to find out or spread some news article

I also have an account for my blog UrbanMilwaukee.com

http://twitter.com/urbanmilwaukee

**dgridley** · 01-20-2009, 12:20 PM

Following the Inauguration with folks on Twitter.. Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek fame) just commented "I'm not ashamed to admit I cried a little"

**dgridley** · 02-05-2009, 10:10 PM

Still using Twitter quite a bit, particularly to tweet links I've posted or those I find of interest.

Here are my current Twitter stats via Twinfluence.com

daveincarthage's Rank: #3,152 (87%)
612 friends
488 followers
1,536,804 second-order followers

My Twitter grade is 98.1 out of 100