Reply to: Using twitter

[conned tractor]

Isn't that missing the point?

I'm waiting for a couple more peices of the jigsaw to fall into place. But then again, I suppose it's cose enough now as we are planning to launch in January.

Maybe tomorrow.

[PorkPie]

Keep it to yourself for the time being. PM sent.

Isn't that missing the point?

[conned tractor]

PM me your user name and I will follow your Plan B on my Business account, got a few hundred followers I can pimp you out to

Keep it to yourself for the time being. PM sent.

[SimonMac]

A week on twitter and I've got my head round it.

Plan B now has 40 twits and 40 followers. And it seems to be growing exponentially, I guess as other twitter users who follow us have similar business interests, and they have far bigger followings. And it's a popular area to be in.

We have more twitter followers than the response to the full page ad we had in the NEC good food show guide with promotional offer code.

If only someone with about 12,000 followers could retweet my tweets .

PM me your user name and I will follow your Plan B on my Business account, got a few hundred followers I can pimp you out to

[conned tractor]

A week on twitter and I've got my head round it.

Plan B now has 21 twits and 40 followers. And it seems to be growing exponentially, I guess as other twitter users who follow us have similar business interests, and they have far bigger followings. And it's a popular area to be in.

We have more twitter followers than the response to the full page ad we had in the NEC good food show guide with promotional offer code.

If only someone with about 12,000 followers could retweet my tweets .

[Notascooby]

I suppose it comes down to "volume". Whilst you don't want a business account to be stale or too dry, if you're using twitter to converse daily with a group of friends, then you don't want this to be in your business feed. Hence the example of "what I had for lunch".

Something interesting from the BBC or as you mentioned work related, e.g. a new EC directive or presentation on something that impacts you're business area is always good.

Balance is what I'm getting at...

[SueEllen]

If it's a business twitter account - then keep it business focused. Those following you don't want to know what you've had for lunch etc.

Wrong.

You need to put some interesting personal observations in it as a small business otherwise people don't follow you or quickly unfollow you . I actually follow a few contractors/small businesses who put interesting links in their tweets (related to what they are working on/do for a living) and talk about random personal things as well as mentioning their business.

The only companies who don't need to do so are large ones like Virgin Media, pay pal, BAA, etc as their tweets are in response to issues with their services or customer complaints. Though there are funny news stories about how corporate twitter accounts have gone wrong i.e. Quantas.

Steven Fry and Ben Goldacre seem are two of the most interesting people to follow on twitter for different reasons. Though Ben Goldarce does have a habit of asking people whether he can eat left out food for lunch/dinner.

[alreadypacked]

Thought I should try to become Godlike for my birthday, but I may have left it a bit late.



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P.S. some thread domination too.

[Notascooby]

You'll find that that a lot of twitter clients such as tweetdeck will keep a save an active and update it automatically. But as pointed out, there's no reply all functionality with regards to hashtags.

One tip is that you can't DM (direct message - twitter's private message function) another user unless they also follow you.

[SimonMac]

@scooby cheers.

So the random use of a hashtag is no good unless a lot of people retweet or use it again.

But if I use a popular hastag, say #goodfood for example (I've guessed that one so it may nt exist) then who, in addition to my following + @directrecipients, will recieve it?

#manythanks

No one will recieve it, although it will allow others to easily find your tweet using the search term

[NickFitz]

@scooby cheers.

So the random use of a hashtag is no good unless a lot of people retweet or use it again.

But if I use a popular hastag, say #goodfood for example (I've guessed that one so it may nt exist) then who, in addition to my following + @directrecipients, will recieve it?

#manythanks

Anybody who looks for it.

So, for example: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23twitterfail

[conned tractor]

@scooby cheers.

So the random use of a hashtag is no good unless a lot of people retweet or use it again.

But if I use a popular hastag, say #goodfood for example (I've guessed that one so it may nt exist) then who, in addition to my following + @directrecipients, will recieve it?

#manythanks

[Notascooby]

#hashtag is to allow searching on a "trend" such as #xfactor or #SPOTY. Then you can see all comments relating to that one subject.

But you'll also find that some people use them as a throw-away comment at the end of there post which isn't really the point of them.
#sometimesguiltyofthatmyself

[conned tractor]

Thanks all. What's the overall pupose of the hashtag?

@Soupboy I've never been bovvered wiv it personally, but dis is buzniz, innit.

[minestrone]

Cannot really be arsed with it, although I do read Tim Westwood's twitter on occasion, I find him blacking up quite funny.

Twitter gives the impression that they are interesting when they are not. Like listening to people wired on coke.