Who's twittering?

[FocusZenith]

Hi all

We've started to use Twitter to keep businesses updated with our activities and upcoming events. I then thought it would be useful to find out who else was on twitter so that we could all expand our twitter networks.

If anyone wants to follow us on twitter we can be found on Twitter under FocusZenith.

What is your Twitter name?

Laurance

 

[wizzard]

I have several twitter accounts, a personal one and then one for each of my main websites.

R_Arblaster is my personal one

wizzardsblog for my blog

wizblogtv this is for my video blog site which should be launching this month.

wizzardsemp for my book store

geohikes is a combination of geocaching and hiking

 

[mattsaw]

I've been on Twitter for a few years - www.twitter.com/mattuk

Mostly SEO and social media Tweets

 

[That Guy]

I've been on Twitter for a few years - www.twitter.com/mattuk

Mostly SEO and social media Tweets

Whats your secret to getting that many followers?

 

[seanstevens]

I signed up a few months back; http://www.twitter.com/CreditManDotNet

 

[mattsaw]

Whats your secret to getting that many followers?

Spend 3-4 years on there

I guess to start with I'm fairly well known in the SEO industry, so I converse quite a lot with people I meet at conferences and other agencies that we work with and people I know online, I found that a lot of people who followed them also followed me.

Outside of that I always try to 'tweet' interesting links that are useful to people in the industry and business owners, from that I ended up getting on a lot of recommended lists, one of which was Robert Scobles recommended list, I got around 1000 followers just from being on there. Also by posting interesting stuff you tend to get retweeted a lot which is a great way of gaining prominence.

I don't really try to profit from it or gain any commercial benefit, but we have picked up a few clients just from being well known on Twitter and at least looking like we know our stuff.

 

[FocusZenith]

An easier link to mine: http://twitter.com/FocusZenith

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Who's twittering?

People with no friends in the real world? People with no social skills?
Fantasists? People swept along with the latest craze?

 

[wizzard]

It isn't about the followers, that's one thing that really annoys me all of these folks that espouse the amount of followers you can get, good tweeting is the main priority, the followers are just are just a consequence.

 

[gman]

Everyone is twittering right now even though i dont really go on mine its georgetoumazos

 

[garyk]

not me cant see the point.

 

[guscat]

Who's twittering?

People with no friends in the real world? People with no social skills?
Fantasists? People swept along with the latest craze?

I suspect my friend that you aren't the most astute businessperson out there. It has already won me some good new business accounts in just a few months. Don't knock it until you try it.

 

[guscat]

Modern day marketing is very quickly evolving and whilst clearly tools like twitter won't prove to be of any real business worth for ALL businesses, I feel that each business owes it to themselves and their future success to at the very least try to include social networking in their overall marketing strategy and use it to their advantage.

Those that can't see the point, well that's fine, after all several companies still don't have email or websites and some still use typewriters.

The world moves on and time waits for no man. As I previously stated twitter has worked for me in a short space of time and has won me in addition to paying customers, some valuable new business contacts. To be honest I prefer companies that aren't as switched on as it means less competition for those more adventurous and forward looking companies.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

I suspect my friend that you aren't the most astute businessperson out there. It has already won me some good new business accounts in just a few months. Don't knock it until you try it.

Like I said,people with no social skills.You know nothing about me or my business.

 

[wizzard]

Like I said,people with no social skills.You know nothing about me or my business.

I suggest you spend a couple of hours on there, there are some big hitters on there with excellent social skills. So just because you're not interested in it doesn't automatically mean the people who use the platform have no social skills.

 

[guscat]

Like I said,people with no social skills.You know nothing about me or my business.

I know a few things about you:

1. Your strapline sums it up by calling yourself older but no wiser - seems this maybe true?!
2. You criticise things BEFORE you try them

Both are FACTS

This is all I all I need to know to be honest in order to make my statement. Open your mind my friend, as it may just work with you as it has with many others, myself included!....

Kind Regards, Rachel

 

[DanMartin]

You can find me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Dan_Martin and www.twitter.com/BusinessZone. UKBF is at www.twitter.com/UKBizForums

You might also want to check out The Ultimate 'Post Your Twitter Name' Thread which has received 400 replies.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

I know a few things about you:

1. Your strapline sums it up by calling yourself older but no wiser - seems this maybe true?!
2. You criticise things BEFORE you try them

Both are FACTS

This is all I all I need to know to be honest in order to make my statement. Open your mind my friend, as it may just work with you as it has with many others, myself included!....

Kind Regards, Rachel

I think you need to check your facts,before making such statements.

1.Isn't ageism an offence now?
2.How do you know I have not tried twitter?

 

[adventurelife]

www.twitter.com/splashrafting

I have a very small amount of followers on there and I am just experimenting. I do see people wasting huge amounts of time, but I have also go business via it that far out ways the amount of effort I put in and it was not business that would have found me any other way.

As always, experiment, test and retest and keep it in balance with your marketing plan and time availability

 

[Be Known PR]

Ditto - just getting my Twitter life up an running:

www.twitter.com/BeKnownPR

I tend to do more to my Facebook fan page as it allows me to upload coverage etc - http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/p...and-communications-agency/164721089913?ref=nf

 

[wizzard]

I think you need to check your facts,before making such statements.

1.Isn't ageism an offence now?
2.How do you know I have not tried twitter?

To point no 2.

Your comment about people that use twitter have no social skills, that's a give away you've not tried twitter. Many businesses as already pointed out use twitter as a promotional platform once they've got their potential customers interested they continue to build the relationship away from twitter, i.e. face to face contact, email or by phone.

 

[ljepson]

I've actually just started to use twitter - it'll be used as a promotional tool, as well as for service updates (i'm a Web Host).

Edit - oops - http://www.twitter.com/serviture

 

[ethical PR]

We use twitter for both our companies

@ethical_PR for Upward Curve PR

@promotr for PROMOTR - our fixed price PR packages

Like any communciations it's about balancing what you get out for what you put in and making your that the communications you use reaches your target audiences/customers.

I think sometimes it's easy to get too carried away with social media and find yourself spending far too long on communications that don't have any real value to you having a successful business.

We find it useful for:-

• keeping up with breaking news
• building relationships
• attracting new business
• sourcing new suppliers
• getting advice
• a watching brief on the sectors in which we operate
• reputation building

We also use tools like Hootsuite to help us make sure any time we do spend is used as effectively as possible.

 

[writecombination]

My business blog twitters at biz_oh and the real me tweets as amknowles

I use it every day and I've sourced several business opportunities through it.

 

[Heart Communications]

http://www.twitter.com/CallAnswering

 

[ethical PR]

And on a personal note I use it if I have a problem with people like Virgin, Tesco, utility companies. If you make a complaint via twitter, you get a much more prompt and better response, than if you try and get through to them via phone/email.

 

[YODspica]

good advice ethical PR.

 

[mattsaw]

And on a personal note I use it if I have a problem with people like Virgin, Tesco, utility companies. If you make a complaint via twitter, you get a much more prompt and better response, than if you try and get through to them via phone/email.

Hopefully, I wrote the Twitter strategy doc for one of those companies

 

[ethical PR]

Really..... well if that's the big V could you see if you could help them improve their phone customer care too - they really are appalling.

 

[mattsaw]

Really..... well if that's the big V could you see if you could help them improve their phone customer care too - they really are appalling.

Luckily that doesn't come under my remit. :redface:

 

[vvaannmmaann]

And of course twitter is full of very interesting people telling other's about their exciting lives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...lars-off-his-property-then-tells-Twitter.html