How to manage twitter?

Eliza_2

cazziebo wrote: »

I read it at idle moments - waiting on trains, planes, appointments. If there is a big story going down I can get quite distracted:o e.g. during Leveson .

Exactly, and that's when I dip into it, just the odd idle moment. As indicated by these responses, there's lots about posting and so on but not so much about systematically and methodically reading.

I've always responded when someone answers me directly or gets in touch via twitter, after all its a potential customer, but other than that, never see anything that I would want or need or which interests me enough, to respond myself.

Perhaps it's horses for courses and I'd do better directing my energies elsewhere for my customers.

And apologies paulwf if I used the words facilitator, cascade etc, I could have said 'trainer' or 'passed the information on' or something but used the jargon for brevity. The course was run by a local business information organisation and was free to local businesses in this area.

Thanks again

Liz

paulwf

Eliza wrote: »

And apologies paulwf if I used the words facilitator, cascade etc, I could have said 'trainer' or 'passed the information on' or something but used the jargon for brevity. The course was run by a local business information organisation and was free to local businesses in this area.

No need to apologise...should probably be me apologising! I've just noticed that a lot of people that give training about twitter and know all the terms have extremely rubbish accounts themselves (always check the social network accounts of the social networkers, it's often very revealing). A free local business course sounds good though.

breadlinebetty

paulwf wrote: »

No need to apologise...should probably be me apologising! I've just noticed that a lot of people that give training about twitter and know all the terms have extremely rubbish accounts themselves (always check the social network accounts of the social networkers, it's often very revealing). A free local business course sounds good though.

It's a bit like those unknown 'authors' who write books on telling you how to write a book...................

w211

I use Twitter for work, and I follow/get followed by similar companies in my industry. A couple of companies who found me, use me as one of their sub-contractors.

CKhalvashi

One of my staff has recently gone undercover, 'with permission of the employer', which has gained a little over 100k followers.

I'm tempted to tell them to put the company up, but I haven't yet :eek:

CK

Eliza_2

w211 wrote: »

I use Twitter for work, and I follow/get followed by similar companies in my industry. A couple of companies who found me, use me as one of their sub-contractors.

Thank you - how often do you read twitter yourself during the day?

System

I did get myself a twitter account months ago and despite going back to it from time to time i cant get my head round it.

I deleted it completely a week or two ago.

w211

Eliza wrote: »

Thank you - how often do you read twitter yourself during the day?

Only a few times a day, when I have a spare moment or two, I'm not really addicted to it in any way, but sometimes I tweet to let my followers know what I'm doing, what the traffic/weather is like, where I am etc.

Just so you know what I do - I'm a one-man self-employed private hire operator (offering an executive minicab/chauffeur service). There are few others, like myself, and if they got a job they can't do/cover, or it's out their local area, and I'm in that area, then I'll do that job for them, and send them an invoice (which is how it works).

I suppose it's a little risky that you don't know who's covering their job, and really its based on trust (to do the job properly, getting paid, and not stealing their clients), but I suppose you get to know someone's personality and character by the nature of their tweets over a period of time (and often they got a website address on their profile page anyway).

Eliza wrote: »

Is it worth it for your business?

Definitely. Do few jobs well for one company, and it's likely they'll recommend you to others, and so on.

Charityworker

I've got a twitter and a Facebook for my business. I find Facebook easy so I just copy what I've said on Facebook and paste it into my twitter.

I would say that about 90% of my business is from Facebook but none from twitter but I keep going with it because it's free so its worth keep plugging on with it. The other 10% of my business comes from craft fairs.

I do make overs, manicures, nail art, glitter body art and tooth gems.

mountainofdebt

I would just be happy if someone explained what people see in twitter in the first place

As far as I can see, twitter is fully of people who think that what they are thinking is so important that the rest of the world needs to know it as well and as for celebrities having a slanging match on there / making confessions / being all lovey dovey (or crying) over each other - honestly give me strength,

And facebook - don't get me started on that as that's becoming nothing more than a yellow pages!