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Twitter for business?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:18 am
by allspiritseve
Anyone on here use twitter for business? Or use twitter at all?
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:27 am
by Eran
There are similar applications aimed just for that - check out
Yammer and
present.ly
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:51 am
by allspiritseve
Apparently nobody does.
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:47 am
by jmut
We're using yammer for business
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:53 am
by allspiritseve
jmut wrote:We're using yammer for business
Care to explain how you use it?
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:59 pm
by jmut
Well those tools are more for day to day stuff..what you're doing and the like. There are different groups, you can reply to person etc. Depends what you're trying to achieve with such tool. It basic but still quite usable, especially when you hook it into an IM client.
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:34 am
by josh
If you have 99999 friends and 0 conversions, you're wasting your time

The only value I see in it at the time being is if you're already well known like the BK meme going on over there @ twitter. Like honestly my clients skim over half my emails, I doubt they'd go out of their way to read my stuff on twitter
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:05 am
by Chris Corbyn
People do follow businesses on twitter. It's a HUGE thing in the marketing world at the moment. You have to make sure you tweet something of value though otherwise people will just stop following.
My employer SitePoint, @sitepointdotcom recently got onto twitter (just a couple of months back) and they already have nearly 21,000 followers.
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:23 am
by onion2k
Chris Corbyn wrote:My employer SitePoint, @sitepointdotcom recently got onto twitter (just a couple of months back) and they already have nearly 21,000 followers.
I think that's a bit of an exceptional case though. Sitepoint is a developer community as much as it's a company - if you have a forum with thousands of web savvy people interested in what's happening in the Web 2.0 world, and consequently all with Twitter accounts, you're going to get lots of followers regardless of what you actually tweet. Most other companies would find it much more difficult.
That's not to say it's not worthwhile trying of course. Twitter is a fantastic medium. The only problem I have with using it for business is that I can't see what their business model could possibly be, so I don't see it lasting. Investing a lot of time and effort in something that might not be here in 12 months feels like a waste.
Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:28 pm
by marketing_india
Rather than using Twitter, I would recommend Search Engine marketing which is much efficient as compared to social media marketing.

Re: Twitter for business?
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:32 am
by onion2k
marketing_india wrote:Rather than using Twitter, I would recommend Search Engine marketing which is much efficient as compared to social media marketing.

You would say that, you're running an SEO company. Sadly though you've failed to grasp that the two things aren't competing with one another. You need to do SEO
as well as other forms of marketing. The fact you don't understand that makes me think you don't really understand marketing, and that said I would recommend people avoid you and your company because you're clearly not very good.