There are loads of blogs and websites and twitterers out there for companies. With posts about how to increase your market share, get lots of followers and connect with your potential clients.
That’s great for business users and I’d like to just recognise a couple that I’ve found useful. I really like the twitip team for their clear, no-nonsense posts, and @MarkShaw for being an all-round generally great guy, friendly, welcoming and informative!
A lot of people are asking “What’s so great about twitter? It’s just a load of people posting what they had for breakfast.” But it’s not, it’s so much more, it’s the logical extension of the personal web presence that people have been having for years. I suppose I’d better explain myself (and before people start thinking I’m an expert of some sort, I’m not. I’ve just tried to find the best online presence for me for around 13 years – back when I was at college)…
At first, if you wanted some sort of web presence then you had to design a website, but that was fiddly and took a lot of work you signed up for your Angelfire or Geocities account and the fiddled with the awful WYSIWYG editor then realised that you really needed to learn HTML.
Then came blogs, a simple, easy to use format but you had to think about what you wanted to say and say lots of it! Then the social networking sites stepped up, myspace with its customisation to the back teeth and apps and a way to connect to your friends so they could update your page and vice versa, and now Facebook - again simplifying and streamlining the process.
And now we have twitter, the logical conclusion to the streamlining. Why do you need apps when you have iGoogle or Windows Live Space? You can store your photos in flickr or photobucket and tweet a link to them or if you’re photographing on the move then there’s always TwitPic, or for the Twidroid users out there, Phodroid. Twitter is, quite simply, a minimalist’s dream that allows you to do exactly what you want. Communicate!
