I've tried to keep up with the recent boom in Social Networking sites by joining as many as seem relevant to me - MySpace (though I've now deleted my account), Facebook, JustGiving, etc.
When I heard about Twitter, I thought I'd follow the blogosphere conversations before seeing if it was worth signing up for it.
Today, I cracked. As Online Communications seems to be the future of the PR industry, I felt I'd better get involved.
But, as I signed up and searched through my email address book to see whom of the people I know used the service, I found that only one of my contacts did - and he hadn't updated his Twitter feed for 10 months.
However, I didn't left that put me off. I could follow the Twitter feeds of those blogs I subscribe to. But then I thought that most of the blogs I follow who use Twitter have Twitter feeds built into their blogs. I already am a big fan of Google Reader and find it really useful and gathering all the new blog posts in one place, so can follow all my favourite blogs there. Why have the extra account at Twitter just to follow those same blogs?
I then looked through the blogosphere to see why others used Twitter. The Addicted To New blog had some interesting thoughts on Twitter, Canuckflack pointed towards a good reason for why those in the PR industry use Twitter, and Bradley Robb found that Twitter was taking him over.
Arguably the most interesting arguemtn against using Twitter comes from Adam Denison at the For Budding Public Relations Professionals blog: "I would venture to say that the large majority of people have no idea what Twitter is, much less how to use it. Is it really the next big thing if only the PR people know about/use it?"
Ultimately, I'll give it a go, experiement, connect with a few users and see where it takes me. and if anyone wants to follow me on Twitter, and perhaps even give me some good reasons to use this service, my username is benrmatthews
Monday, 18 February 2008
Twitter me this, Twitter me that
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I absolutely dig Twitter. There's so much you can do with it if you're creative enough! :)
Check out my blog and you'll see... just google my name if you're not sure the url.
Kaichanvong - Thanks for the tips - received a few more tips for starters and am now looking forward to finding out about Twitter!
Welcome to Twitter!
I didn't "get" it at first, but Twitter has become one of the most important tools in my life -- it's community, an immediate feedback tool, a local event tracker, and a support group, all in one.
I have some posts on one of my blogs about how different people use Twitter: http://www.ohtwitter.com/blog/just-what-is-twitter
(I'm also following you now! I'm @MarinaMartin.)
Being a twitter virgin I know I will sound naive in asking what on earth it is.
However now that I have asked that I am getting the feeling that I should feel ashamed to call myself a PR student!!
@Marina Martin - Thanks! Will look over your blog post to see how I can use twitter.
And I'm now following you too - but isn't that a strange way of putting it? 'Follwing'? Sounds kinda stalkerish if you ask me...
Lydia - I've been on twitter for less than 24 hours though so feel pretty naive too, but the best thing you can do as a PR student is sign up, get involved and exeperiment - what've you got to lose?!
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