Social Network Marketing #1: The world is all atwitter about Twitter

I have always thought of the Internet as an Interstate Highway. People don’t get off and visit you unless they know you exist. Places like Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave, etc. can be likened to billboards along the road. The more billboards you put up, the more likely you are to have visitors.

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

As it relates to twitter and a business, twitter is for building community. You tweet newly released products, you tweet asking for beta testers, you tweet to answer a question someone has asked to their twitter friends. Ignore the friends count. Google around for understanding more about how to use twitter for a business. If I were you’d focus on blogging. You could even blog on how you build a mantle clock. You’d easily get links from here and potential customers would also see the pain-staking details you go through when you create each clock. Not to mention the SEO!

I personally refuse to get involved with anything that forces me to “tweet”....maybe it’s just me but I would rather bark, or growl, or roar…..not “tweet”...might as well buy a tutu and take up ballet…

-- http://www.facebook.com/pages/DSO-Designs/297237806954248

”you tweet to answer a question someone has asked to their twitter friends.”

Is it possible to interact with someone else’s Twitter account? For example, let’s say you and I both have our own accounts; you post a tweet – can I reply back on your “wall” and people will see my tweet, and hopefully, come visit me?

-- Have a blessed day!

Brad—- I totally agree with you…. wait a minute I have to go tweet about this… ;)

pashley: yes. The more you trust a person, the more likely you are to look beyond their twitter account to learn more about them.

maybe this will be a “tweet” deal after all….. :)

-- Have a blessed day!

I’m also studying social network marketing. I wait to hear what you come up with.

-- Thos. Angle, Jordan Valley, Oregon

I just read an article about social networking .. and Thos. you got the gist of it—don’t think of it as social networking but as social marketing. Once you switch the perspective you change how you use the sites and thus increase the usefulness of them

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’m on Twitter and it is useful to stay informed quickly of developing stories. I use it mostly for venting my political frustrations, which don’t belong here, but if you’d like to see how it works, here is a link to one Twitter list on woodworking: ” http://tinyurl.com/yc5cnht“

Many magazine editors have Twitter accounts, and many woodworkers with website sales use it to alert to new items, etc. I like having ‘lists’ to separate my interests there.

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

I don’t know your ages and backgrounds, but this is hilarious. I’ve never considered “studying” social networking. I love the name “Twitter”, too. It makes it impossible to have stuffy conversation about it, no matter how serious you are being.

Eli

Why does he have 4300 followers? He probably created them out of thin air. This is what people don’t understand about Twitter. You can easily create tons of fake accounts to make your follower list look more impressive than what it is. Twitter is a lame fad that will die sooner than later.

Facebook on the other hand, is here to stay for a long time. You can’t necessarily create legitimate fake accounts in Facebook (you can, but it’s laborious and pointless). FB is a well thought out and planned community that has a huge and passionate user base.

Just focus on “studying” facebook.