A few people have asked me about Twitter. I have to be honest I didn’t get it. I know that its good, life changing and world beating because everyone says so. I have even taught folks how to set up their accounts. Today however, I saw the point.
I’ve had a Twitter account for about a week now. Obviously I looked for friends and acquaintances to follow and just left it at that. At the time of writing I have 5 followers and am following 11 people. Hardly world beating. However, as the saying goes, with a long enough leaver one can move the world.
Here is how my leaver moving moment came about.
Late Sunday evening: Popped 50 Good for Geeks mugs we had kicking about onto eBay.
Monday morning: Shipped the first 2 sales.
Monday lunchtime: Installed Tweet Deck and resolved to get tot the bottom of this Twitter thing. (www.tweetdeck.com)
Monday late lunch: Posted the following on Twitter: “By popular demand (+ lots of nagging) Web Safe mugs for old skool geeks http://bit.ly/afj3su spread the news!” This went out to my 5 followers. (http://bit.ly is a neat way to make a long web address short, important when you only have 140 characters to play with)
Monday (still) late lunch: One of my followers re-Tweeted (RT) my advert to her 767 followers.
Monday (still) late lunch: One of my followers’ followers did likewise to their 515 followers
Monday (still) late lunch: Creative Nottingham (creativenotts) did the same to their 1080 followers. In the space of 15 minutes my small eBay advert has reached 2362 people. Admittedly some of these people will be in the same lists but non-the less, I am a Twitter convert.
Monday afternoon: I notice that another mug has just sold.
Is Twitter Just for Techno Twits?
I’ve had a Twitter account for about a week now. Obviously I looked for friends and acquaintances to follow and just left it at that. At the time of writing I have 5 followers and am following 11 people. Hardly world beating. However, as the saying goes, with a long enough leaver one can move the world.
Here is how my leaver moving moment came about.
Late Sunday evening: Popped 50 Good for Geeks mugs we had kicking about onto eBay.
Monday morning: Shipped the first 2 sales.
Monday lunchtime: Installed Tweet Deck and resolved to get tot the bottom of this Twitter thing. (www.tweetdeck.com)
Monday late lunch: Posted the following on Twitter: “By popular demand (+ lots of nagging) Web Safe mugs for old skool geeks http://bit.ly/afj3su spread the news!” This went out to my 5 followers. (http://bit.ly is a neat way to make a long web address short, important when you only have 140 characters to play with)
Monday (still) late lunch: One of my followers re-Tweeted (RT) my advert to her 767 followers.
Monday (still) late lunch: One of my followers’ followers did likewise to their 515 followers
Monday (still) late lunch: Creative Nottingham (creativenotts) did the same to their 1080 followers. In the space of 15 minutes my small eBay advert has reached 2362 people. Admittedly some of these people will be in the same lists but non-the less, I am a Twitter convert.
Monday afternoon: I notice that another mug has just sold.
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