What is YOUR use for Twitter?
Note: Given that our goal is to help YOU find (and be found) by the right people to achieve your objectives, we want to understand what you want to get from using Twitter.
Please share what YOUR use for Twitter is, and we will feature the most meaningful comments to share it with everyone! =)
How people use Twitter is often a hot button topic – the most heated discussions typically center whether it is good to have more followers (or better followers), whether it is good to “follow back” everyone, whether you should tweet more than 5 times a day.
While we understand why these arguments happen, we believe there really is no right or wrong answer - it all depends on what YOU are using Twitter for!
Whether it is doubling clients for your local coffee shop, fighting breast cancer, or finding a fellow cat lovers, or distributing industry information there really is no one way of using Twitter, and that is what is so great about it.
My Goals: I use Twitter to discover potential collaborators for MrTweet, as well as to connect with smart people who share similar interests.
Who I follow: People who either share links or hold conversations in finance, recommendation systems, and human psychology.
For example, I was really happy when I was able to find Tom Conrad, who is the CTO of Pandora being the second on my MrTweet recommended list!
2nd on my MrTweet Recommendation. Yay!
Also, I look for folks who work in companies which could benefit from either knowing about the kind of work we do at MrTweet, and/or our areas of expertise around discovery.
When do i follow back? I do not follow everyone back like KrisColvin does, but I normally follow back after 2 or more interactions have taken place.
Meeting @HamiltonUlmer for coffee after a few such interactions
A great example here is @hamiltonulmer. He started following me first, and he replied to a couple of my tweets about geek stuff like recommendation engines with some great links. Not only am I following him back, I am also meeting him for coffee soon!
What do I ReTweet? I am not what you might consider a “generous” ReTweeter like @Zaibatsu, who is a great link sharing machine!
Recommendation for Reg. Completely agree.
However, I retweet whenever I see little known articles or quotes being shared, because I like to think I am adding value to the world by highlighting less known, but cool stuff.
This is just MY own use case, and I do not think i am doing anything “right or wrong”. Everyone has different usages for Twitter, and it is important to recognize that.
What is YOUR goals for Twitter, and how do you use this great new communication tool?