Comments on: The RIGHT way to use Twitter http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:35:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: nickfell http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-217 nickfell Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:11:04 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-217 Hey Willem, Thanks for the comment and sorry it took me so long to OK it as not being spam...have been away from internet for a while! Hey Willem,

Thanks for the comment and sorry it took me so long to OK it as not being spam…have been away from internet for a while!

]]> By: Willem http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-216 Willem Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:48:51 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-216 All too true. The simplicity of it is proportionally inverse to its versatility. And it's fun looking at how people use it differently - funnily enough it reflects how people are different to start with. I caught up with one of my best friends a couple of weeks ago (Who is not in advertising/marketing/blogging/etc) and she had registered to Twitter a couple of months before, but I thought she wasn't really using it. Surprise to me, she tells me she's completely addicted and loves it - she follows almost all the celebrities on there and uses it as a sort of live and personal gossip column. Why not? I thought it was pretty cool. All too true. The simplicity of it is proportionally inverse to its versatility. And it’s fun looking at how people use it differently – funnily enough it reflects how people are different to start with.

I caught up with one of my best friends a couple of weeks ago (Who is not in advertising/marketing/blogging/etc) and she had registered to Twitter a couple of months before, but I thought she wasn’t really using it. Surprise to me, she tells me she’s completely addicted and loves it – she follows almost all the celebrities on there and uses it as a sort of live and personal gossip column. Why not? I thought it was pretty cool.

]]> By: Sam http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-210 Sam Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:41:48 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-210 I stand corrected dude. :) I stand corrected dude. :)

]]> By: nickfell http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-209 nickfell Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:06:37 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-209 Right on Sam. And you should know better than that ;) Right on Sam.

And you should know better than that ;)

]]> By: Sam http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-208 Sam Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:07:22 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-208 Have to admit dude, I saw the title of the post and thought "not another post on how to use it!" But I should have known better. Just like you said, there is no right way, experiment, simplify and pimpify. Use it (and any other tool) the way you want. And if someone (like Scoble for example) uses it in a way you hate/don't get don't bring out the firing squad - he's getting something out of it so maybe we should all try to do that in our own ways. Awesome stuff. Boom. Have to admit dude, I saw the title of the post and thought “not another post on how to use it!”

But I should have known better. Just like you said, there is no right way, experiment, simplify and pimpify. Use it (and any other tool) the way you want. And if someone (like Scoble for example) uses it in a way you hate/don’t get don’t bring out the firing squad – he’s getting something out of it so maybe we should all try to do that in our own ways.

Awesome stuff. Boom.

]]> By: nickfell http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-207 nickfell Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:26:10 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-207 Hey James, The "social media pros" are always a turn off for me too. I guess they aren't for everyone though - otherwise they wouldn't have as many followers as they do... Not sure there is a "golden rule of etiquette" anywhere. That sort of assumes that etiquette means the same thing to everyone and that everyone is trying to achieve the same things. N Hey James,

The “social media pros” are always a turn off for me too. I guess they aren’t for everyone though – otherwise they wouldn’t have as many followers as they do…

Not sure there is a “golden rule of etiquette” anywhere. That sort of assumes that etiquette means the same thing to everyone and that everyone is trying to achieve the same things.

N

]]> By: james http://donttellmymum.com/2009/02/25/the-right-way-to-use-twitter/#comment-206 james Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:06:28 +0000 http://donttellmymum.com/?p=423#comment-206 true dat. but i am interested in a kind of etiquette to using twitter, and i think it goes back to your point about people assuming that you're using it for the same reasons/in the same ways they are. like, i seem to be under siege from individuals twitterers whose sole aim is to create a huge follow list for themselves...and all they seem to tweet about is how you can do the same. it's really cool for brands to be on twitter, because communities of interest naturally spring up and because you can extend the creative, as shown by the examples you've cited. same goes for your stephen frys and wossys. they get massive follows, but that's ok because they always have interesting things to say. whereas these self-proclaimed marketing gurus only seem to hammer home the same message each time. so in my meandering-around-what-i-mean kind of way, i guess what i mean is twitter is a beautifully simple thing to be explored and exploited, reinvented and reinterpreted. just worth thinking about a golden rule of etiquette online, offline, wherever: always be interesting. true dat. but i am interested in a kind of etiquette to using twitter, and i think it goes back to your point about people assuming that you’re using it for the same reasons/in the same ways they are.

like, i seem to be under siege from individuals twitterers whose sole aim is to create a huge follow list for themselves…and all they seem to tweet about is how you can do the same.

it’s really cool for brands to be on twitter, because communities of interest naturally spring up and because you can extend the creative, as shown by the examples you’ve cited. same goes for your stephen frys and wossys. they get massive follows, but that’s ok because they always have interesting things to say. whereas these self-proclaimed marketing gurus only seem to hammer home the same message each time.

so in my meandering-around-what-i-mean kind of way, i guess what i mean is twitter is a beautifully simple thing to be explored and exploited, reinvented and reinterpreted. just worth thinking about a golden rule of etiquette online, offline, wherever: always be interesting.

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