Comments on: Do You Really Use Twitter?

By: Kleber Razorg

Kleber Razorg — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:43:32 +0000

Excellent post, I liked a lot. Success!

By: Ganhar Dinheiro

Ganhar Dinheiro — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:40:52 +0000

I liked very much, congratulations!
Did not use Twitter, but I’ll start now!

By: Dinheiro

Dinheiro — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:41:36 +0000

Very cool post! Twitter is really a controversial thing…

By: Fernando Augusto

Fernando Augusto — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:56:18 +0000

i love using twitter every single day with my business. thank you

By: zbrain

zbrain — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:26:14 +0000

Yes, I’m on twitter @ http://twitter.com/zbrain. Although I signed up when the service was fairly new, I’ve been using it more in the past few weeks. I think most people are missing the point of twitter, possibly because of the “What are you doing?” question. While your first impression when you see that is “I’m supposed to right about what I’m doing? and what’s the fun in that?” you realize it’s not about what you’re doing, it’s about what you’re thinking.

Twitter, like Facebook, or any of the social media tools, heck even a blog like yours allows you to frame your thoughts. Now, as much as the point is to write about something you’re doing, it is also about what other twitterers are thinking. Twitter gives you a glimpse into the thought process of the person. You get an opportunity to see how some of the smartest minds – like Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, Robert Scoble, Prez Barack Obama – think, and it only helps you think along the same lines.

Contrary to what most people think, there is a two way information flow – “what are you doing?” and “what is everyone else doing?”

By: Gavin Ingham

Gavin Ingham — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:24:36 +0000

I do use Twitter but mostly in the same ways as Gobala to update my readers of my blog updates. I also “pull” my Twitter feed into Facebook updates and various other sites – all automated.

Twitter seems to be the darling of the web at the moment and has been recently picked up in the mainstream press in the UK. Many politicians etc have been using it as have many celebrities. I can see that with the modern obsession for everything famous people do that it may well have a valid use for them but I do wonder who it is exactly who cares that you or I have just had a coffee and a bagel. Certainly, no-one who has a life – that’s for sure.

Looking at my Twitter reports some people seem to post dozens of aimless messages every day. With people doing this it is far too easy to ignore Twitter messages and I doubt whether most ever get read. The more people adopt it – the more I see this being the case.

So whilst I can see groupies and fans wanting regular updates to their phones that Mr Famous rockstar has just flexed his pecs I see most typical markets and customers being at bestm disinterested. For sure, online marketers are going to spout about it being the second coming but look how much they are making out of adding it to their “secrets of marketing online” courses…

For the rest of us, I would cite the 80/20 rule…

20% of your marketing results are going to come from 80% of your effort. You need to work out whether part of that 20% is Twitter or not. Personally, I think that unless people start to use it in a more restrained manner, any impact you may have had with it will be massively diluted or even lost…

By: vid

vid — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:42:51 +0000

I twitter too.
You can twitter me on http://www.twitter.com/sun22

By: Philippe de Tiege

Philippe de Tiege — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:38:35 +0000

Hey Gobala,

Yes, I’m twittering :

http://www.twitter.com/philippedetiege

And you have to see at this one :

http://www.tweetergetter.com/philippedetiege

By: George

George — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:58:46 +0000

I think people use Twitter because they like to think people are listening, but how many of us really sit down each day and read all the tweets of the people we’re following? It’s like way lower priority even than opening your inbox and reading all the newsletters from internet marketers, which, let’s face it, has to be a very slow day indeed (except yours of course Gobala, read it always).

Twitter “use” is more like people talking into the void with a bit of a chance of people accidentally listening.

Anyway, follow me if you really do “read” twitter: http://twitter.com/georgebaily

By: Rogerio Job

Rogerio Job — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:09:15 +0000

I don’t know the best way to use Twitter but sometimes I use a free tool called Posty – http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty that send my posts to 5 microblogs at the same time.