Are you delighted by Twitter?

By toddles

April 5, 2008

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I’ve been using Twitter for a while, but am only now fully grasping the value of sending and receiving Tweets. Sort of like instant messaging, but you can choose to pay attention or not on your own time - because each Tweet essentially becomes a Web page. Although Twitter is often used to share updates on what you are up to, or following others, without a doubt the best use of Twitter is sharing links .

If you sign up for a Twitter account you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/toddlesby

If you have people that you follow or people that follow you, you can let them know whenever you find an interesting link. For instance the link at Matt Cutt’s Blog explaining the top 200 different signals Google uses to determine how to rank your Web page would be a link worth twittering seen in the previous post

For your tourism enterprise, consider how your customers might respond to instant offers that you make from time to time, that you don’t feature on your Web site, but that you only make available to Your Ideal Guests who are following you! You can do the same thing on Facebook or on your blog . . .

Twitter pages are also searchable. The search tool Tweetscan is very interesting. You can type keywords into the search field and you will see all the people who have recently posted those words into Twitter and read their posts.

I use Twhirl as a program that gathers the Tweets from people I follow and shows me the posts as they happen. One of the really interesting things I’ve noticed, is people twittering about live events - sending the Tweet to invite followers to go to a Web site to participate in audio, video or live blogging events or participating in social meet-ups at public locations.