Comments on: Is Twitter Dead? http://jeffsbusiness.com/marketing/is-twitter-dead/ Tips, Training, and Expert Advice on mastering your Online Marketing Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:49:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Peter Fuller MBA http://jeffsbusiness.com/marketing/is-twitter-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-688 Peter Fuller MBA Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:41 +0000 http://jeffsbusiness.com/?p=724#comment-688 Hey Shecky I always wondered how people managed thousands of followers on twitter, and then it dawned on me, they don't engage. At best I can manage 40 to 50 personal contacts online at a time where I actually engage with them. The question is how to be successful on twitter and I am guessing it comes down to creating meaningful discussions rather than just blasting out marketing messages to the unknown. Hey Shecky

I always wondered how people managed thousands of followers on twitter, and then it dawned on me, they don’t engage.

At best I can manage 40 to 50 personal contacts online at a time where I actually engage with them.

The question is how to be successful on twitter and I am guessing it comes down to creating meaningful discussions rather than just blasting out marketing messages to the unknown.

]]> By: Rachel http://jeffsbusiness.com/marketing/is-twitter-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Rachel Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:31:33 +0000 http://jeffsbusiness.com/?p=724#comment-572 Twitter is not dead (even though that fail whale tells me differently some days!) However, there is a group of people who abuse it and ruin it for the rest of us. I set guidelines for my social media accounts - if I've never met you in person (or you are not a good person) you are not my friend on facebook. If I've heard of you via #ff a RT or an @ by a personal friend on mine on twitter then I'll start following you. If your tweets are lame - I'll unfollow you the next day. I also check my follower list once a week. Anyone from the UK or anyone I have no connection to I block. It may be cold hearted, but I bet 90% are spam and for the 10% who want to get in touch with me, they'll find a way. I use twitter as a way to build relationships in real life. Anyone I follow on twitter I look forward to meeting in real life - or maybe I know them in real life and need a way to communicate with them while I'm at my desk all day. Similar to Dawn's comment - it's my conversational medium. Twitter is not dead (even though that fail whale tells me differently some days!) However, there is a group of people who abuse it and ruin it for the rest of us.

I set guidelines for my social media accounts – if I’ve never met you in person (or you are not a good person) you are not my friend on facebook. If I’ve heard of you via #ff a RT or an @ by a personal friend on mine on twitter then I’ll start following you. If your tweets are lame – I’ll unfollow you the next day. I also check my follower list once a week. Anyone from the UK or anyone I have no connection to I block. It may be cold hearted, but I bet 90% are spam and for the 10% who want to get in touch with me, they’ll find a way.

I use twitter as a way to build relationships in real life. Anyone I follow on twitter I look forward to meeting in real life – or maybe I know them in real life and need a way to communicate with them while I’m at my desk all day. Similar to Dawn’s comment – it’s my conversational medium.

]]> By: Dawn http://jeffsbusiness.com/marketing/is-twitter-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Dawn Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:52:03 +0000 http://jeffsbusiness.com/?p=724#comment-571 Interesting. I don't think Twitter is dead, I think it is reverting to what it is designed to be, a conversational medium. I have a much smaller follower base, but the engagement percentage is actually growing as those relationships continues to get stronger -- not via just RTs and blanket #ff posts, but with knowing about their lives and work. It was never going to be a quick fix. Interesting. I don’t think Twitter is dead, I think it is reverting to what it is designed to be, a conversational medium. I have a much smaller follower base, but the engagement percentage is actually growing as those relationships continues to get stronger — not via just RTs and blanket #ff posts, but with knowing about their lives and work. It was never going to be a quick fix.

]]> By: Leah PettePiece http://jeffsbusiness.com/marketing/is-twitter-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Leah PettePiece Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:07 +0000 http://jeffsbusiness.com/?p=724#comment-570 You seem to have hit a nerve with this statement, I too used to really enjoy twitter and yesterday all of a sudden my ebox overflowed with marketing scams, 110,000 seeimingly ways to make money and all I had shared was that I was not working, haven't worked in nearly three years due to illness, I didn't ask to be inundated with ways tomake money. Now what really bothered me the most about the whole thing is this: The guys selling this junk are the only ones I am certain that ever make a dime from such tripe. So I am now seriously reconsidering my participation in what was a wonderful new way to connect with others of like mind. Thanks for sharing what happened with you, made me feel a bit better and not such a traitor to be thinking about leaving twitter. You seem to have hit a nerve with this statement, I too used to really enjoy twitter and yesterday all of a sudden my ebox overflowed with marketing scams, 110,000 seeimingly ways to make money and all I had shared was that I was not working, haven’t worked in nearly three years due to illness, I didn’t ask to be inundated with ways tomake money. Now what really bothered me the most about the whole thing is this: The guys selling this junk are the only ones I am certain that ever make a dime from such tripe.
So I am now seriously reconsidering my participation in what was a wonderful new way to connect with others of like mind. Thanks for sharing what happened with you, made me feel a bit better and not such a traitor to be thinking about leaving twitter.

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