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tgatesAug 6th 2009 5:55PM
There are different uses for Twitter (more than these 4)...
1) the facebook/myspace personal style users (tweet about their daily life events)
2) the business that use it to connect to their customers (fast, simple broadcast to anyone listening)
3) networking professionals connecting with other professionals (tweeting about their industry)
4) celebrities and their fans
I personally hate #1. I don't follow any personal friends on twitter, unless they also fit #3. I follow several companies because of #2. I enjoy the fact that I don't need to go to their websites or get email from them to keep up to date with what they are doing.
#3 is what Twitter is all about. I am an architect and there is a constant amount of new technology emerging weekly. I use Twitter as a micro-blog with a built in comments section. I tweet about new technologies, processes, etc that I discover in my working environment. I have been able to connect to many other architects and engineers through Twitter that I would have never even stumbled upon anywhere else. The way I did this is by searching Twitter for keywords like #BIM, #architecture, #revit, etc. The search function is the most powerful part of Twitter imo.
(Unverified)Aug 21st 2009 11:45PM
Great post Troy, I'm not very social network savvy but am slowly learning. Your post was the most twitter enlightening I've read so far. You cleared up the "value of twitter" issue fr me at least. I just started a new business finding overstock consumer goods merchandise to buy and liquidate; http//www.LiquiQuick.com ...since you state that twitter does have business networking value as opposed to others in this thread who say it has little or no value, I was curious to know if there was some sort of guidelines available somewhere for using twitter to network for business purposes (Business Networking on Twitter for Dummies?...lol) Your post clearly shows the value of twitter in more ways than one and I hope to use it in the future to contact people associated or interested with my line of business as you have in yours as an Architect. Thanks for the Twitter education.