Twitter (All in a ...)

[Shawn, the Beer Philosopher]

Okay, I pride myself on being relatively tech savvy. I am generally up to speed on most of the social networking tools available to anyone with a computer and internet connection these days, but unlike MySpace, Face Book, Digg or del.icio.us ... I just don't know if I thoroughly "get" Twitter ...
I have been inundated as of late with notifications in my email inbox informing me that random people are now "following me on Twitter." I don't know whether to be alarmed or honored, frankly. I don't often update "what I'm doing" on Twitter and even if I did, I obviously fail to see the thrill in anyone knowing what I'm doing right now. Let's all face it; I'm just not that exciting.

None the less, people persist and they follow me ... bunched of them! I feel like I'm living the virtual equivalent of that Verizon Wireless commercial with the crowd following me around everywhere led by that annoying squirrely guy with the dark-rimmed glasses. I guess this is really all very cool, but I feel like I'm missing out on the "coolness" of it all because I don't get it. Okay, I admit ... I've not spent much time there figuring it out either.

Someone help me get it! Why should I be impressed with all these folk following me and what do I do with them now that I have them? How do I make the most of my Twitter experience?

How’s that for off-topic??? ;)

[Beer Drinker]

Hey Shawn (and all of you). Twitter is for you. Based on the marketing comments from two experts, Seth Godin and Jeremy Schoemaker (Shoemoney), Twitter and TwitThis can bring excellent readership and coverage for The Aleuminati as well as your blogs. Shoemoney said that the second biggest referer to his blog behind Google is Twitter, so that's a great source of traffic for you. Talk to you all soon.

[Louisa Hastings]

I had to start using Twitter at work and at first I bitterly resented it, after all, I'd spent so long trying to avoid it. I could leave it at any point but I spend ages in the morning trawling the internet desperately looking for something interesting to tweet.

I use it personally now as I write a blog and use it to update readers but I could ditch it at any point really as very rarely do people tweet anything remotely interesting!

To be perfectly honest, I see it as just a method of communication with businesses. Fed up of bad customer service when you have a genuine complaint? Whinge about it on twitter remembering to mention @thecompany and you get what you want!