Comments on: Twitter for Business? http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/2009/05/28/twitter-for-business/ by Jason Kemp Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:08:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: piero L http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/2009/05/28/twitter-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-311 piero L Fri, 29 May 2009 01:40:35 +0000 http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/?p=298#comment-311 completely agree ... although the celebs do make for interesting entertainment. the real beauty of twitter is that two-way interaction, but there is a real broadcast element to it. I follow a bunch of basketball players, stephen fry, the news feeds ... all good sources of entertainment and information. [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value. completely agree … although the celebs do make for interesting entertainment. the real beauty of twitter is that two-way interaction, but there is a real broadcast element to it. I follow a bunch of basketball players, stephen fry, the news feeds … all good sources of entertainment and information.

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]]> By: JasonK http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/2009/05/28/twitter-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-310 JasonK Fri, 29 May 2009 01:36:14 +0000 http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/?p=298#comment-310 Thanks Piero - nothing wrong with critical mass. Its just that like all systems it is open to abuse in particular by celebrities - a couple of whom have 1m+ followers. I don't think anyone can really "follow" that many people in a meaningful way. The wannabes are people who see Twitter as another get rich scheme and one note hucksters who use it as a form of spam advertising. There is also a separate group whose sole objective seems to be to have a large number of followers and the number is the important thing. From my perspective it is better to be used as a two way system although the real time aspect means that if the parties aren't live at the same time that can be frustrating as well. There can be an element of half-conversations which can be good for trend analysis but might not be so much fun for corporates. On the other hand twitter is way to big to ignore. See this chart for relative <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-twitters-natural-monopoly-2009-4" rel="nofollow"> growth and competitors. Thanks Piero – nothing wrong with critical mass. Its just that like all systems it is open to abuse in particular by celebrities – a couple of whom have 1m+ followers. I don’t think anyone can really “follow” that many people in a meaningful way.

The wannabes are people who see Twitter as another get rich scheme and one note hucksters who use it as a form of spam advertising. There is also a separate group whose sole objective seems to be to have a large number of followers and the number is the important thing.

From my perspective it is better to be used as a two way system although the real time aspect means that if the parties aren’t live at the same time that can be frustrating as well.

There can be an element of half-conversations which can be good for trend analysis but might not be so much fun for corporates. On the other hand twitter is way to big to ignore.

See this chart for relative
growth and competitors.

]]> By: piero L http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/2009/05/28/twitter-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-307 piero L Fri, 29 May 2009 01:06:21 +0000 http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/?p=298#comment-307 Celebrities and Wannabes flock to jump on the bandwagon? Does this mean that the "critical mass" you so desired are all wannabes? ;) Celebrities and Wannabes flock to jump on the bandwagon? Does this mean that the “critical mass” you so desired are all wannabes? ;)

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