Do you use twitter? Make it a job!
If you have no clue what twitter is, don’t worry. It is quite a recent habit. To tweet or to use twitter is to send a very short message (a maximum of 140 signs, actually) to other people, giving some valuable information. Other people can follow you on twitter and see what information you have to share.
It is that shortness of the message that makes twitter so intreaguing to me. You have to be very precise and short to sum up your thoughts in a nice, round and attractive message. It’s like creating the perfect headline for a newspaper: A fun challenge. The better you do it, the more people will crave your tweets!
A good post on twitter is considered to contain some valuable bit of information with a link or an image. Some people say that twitter is “micro-blogging”, others just want to share their thoughts and feelings, and most professionals who have knowledge about a certain topic use it to get the word out about their skills. Go to www.twitter.com if you want to try it out, it is free and easy.
As twitter is becoming one of the most interesting “social media” tools and a great way to share information quickly with others, companies start looking for people who know how to use twitter. Pizza Hut, for instance, is hiring a “Twintern” (twitter intern) to bring the Pizza chain up to scratch with the new social media age. Great idea!
(Pizza Hut story via Braden Kelley)
Twitter related, check out these two useful tools: Tweetdeck, Friend or Follow.
