So less than 24 hours into my Twitter adventure and I'm learning its uses all the time.
Adam Denison (@AdamDenison) and Kai Chan Vong (@kaichanvong) gave me a warm welcome into the community, as well as some tips on how to get started.
Marina Martin (@MarinaMartin) pointed me towards her great blog, Oh, Twitter!, which proved a really useful starting point for all things Twitter and a blog I will be following as I delve deeper into the Twitter community.
And Lydia (have you joined Twitter yet?) reminded me that you shouldn't worry about being naive about a new application, especially when using it in the PR context, but just sign up, get involved, and experiment!
One of the best blog posts I've read on the uses of Twitter is by Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk), called "Twitter is paying my rent.":
- Use a platform that lives outside the Twitter web page. If I had to go to Twitter.com every time I wanted to interact with the service - I wouldn't use it very much.
- Using those tools will lead to Twitter interrupting you a lot. Pay partial attention to it when you can, Twitteriffic's large user icons allow for quick facial recognition instead of reading every message, for example.
- Add friends beyond the people you literally know.
- Accept the trivial as important. "Continuous social intelligence" is the best description I've heard of Twitter.
- Interact with people outside of Twitter too.
If anyone wants to 'follow' me (doesn't 'following' feel like you're stalking someone?) my username is @benrmatthews
2 comments:
Thanks for the link love! So glad you've joined the Twitter community :)
:) You were more than welcome. I think more than anything it's the idea of an open forum where anyone can add their 10cents to a discussion or opinions.
If someone feels like they're being stalked then they can simply block that person or make their tweets private.
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