Last month at SXSW, I met Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming. He told me about all the great benefits of Twitter and how I had to be on it. I was SO skeptical. Why would you or anyone else care what other people were doing at any given moment?
Andy gave me a quick demo of how it worked and it really clicked. At SXSW, thousands of tech-junkies using Twitter were updating their statuses on where the hottest parties were, who was speaking where, and even updating the Mark Zuckerberg debacle as it was going down. I was very impressed and told myself I’d join when I found the time.
I’ve found the time now and have already officially started to send Twits. Is that what it’s called? Either way, once I get the lingo down, I’m sure it will be helpful for Personal Branding and really giving people the opportunity to get to know me on a much deeper and personal level.
5 responses so far ↓
marsha // April 17, 2008 at 7:01 am |
Welcome to Twitter. Thanks for following.
Amanda // April 17, 2008 at 11:57 am |
I have also joined Twitter and I love when people tweet! It keeps me up to date on friends without having to ask. If they end up near me, I meet them. Is this an entirely new counter culture where we emit friendship and wait to see who engages? Cool! Also, NPR tweets headlines to me a couple of times per day so I can choose the news I want to read in-depth!
Adam Salamon // April 17, 2008 at 12:20 pm |
Hi Marsha & Amanda,
Thanks for commenting. How do you guys typically use Twitter? I see people that follow hundreds if not thousands of people. How do you consume all that information? By phone? Online?
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max bottaro // November 12, 2008 at 6:20 pm |
yea I was super skeptic about twitter too… it seemed like the kind of thing that 10th grade girls would do between classes… honestly though, social media is a powerful marketing and personal branding tool that older generations are missing out on. ITS FREE!