Business and Blogging

Mini-Blogging: Interesting Discussion about Twitter

by Des Walsh on April 28th, 2007

This week I wrote on my Thinking Home Business blog, a couple of posts about Twitter.

Twitter is described on Wikipedia as:

…a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website or an application such as Twitterrific. These updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

In the post Twitter - Help or Hindrance to the Work from Home Brigade? I wrote:

I imagine it’s fairly obvious that Twitter could be a real distraction for anyone working from home. Can it also add value? My guess, picking up on a comment in the video linked to above, is that depends on the business context each person works in. For me it makes sense so far to explore it further, I think mainly in terms of the possibilities of “mini-blogging” and of course social networking.

in How Twitter Can Help You Build Traffic I referred to a helpful post by Neil Patel and also indicated that I was still not convinced about the business value.

But I am twittering, not continually, but every day or so.

Just a while ago, I picked up, from Twitter in fact, that there was a podcast discussion on OnPoint, The World According to Twitter, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, and featuring Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, keen twitterer Robert Scoble and others. I’m listening to it as I type and one of the interesting features of the session is that it includes people who are twitterers and people who are quite underwhelmed by the concept.

Well worth a listen for anyone wanting to get a feel for the conversation going on about Twitter.

For anyone blogging for business but perhaps not dazzled by all things social networking, I can see that Twitter might well seem either irrelevant to business, or time-wasting or both. But for some businesses with a more direct and immediate interest in how people are communicating with one another, wouldn’t it make good business sense to get across what is happening with Twitter - and maybe even registering and doing some twittering?

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