Are you using Twitter to market your business?

[lav]

By tomorrow you'll be up to a dozen.

Absoluetley right vangogh 12 followers today.

It is a lot harder to find people you know on Twitter compared to facebook. Facebook suggests people you may know but twitter you have to go find them.

[vangogh]

Didn't you know I was psychic?

Come one, come all. Step right up and see the one eared fortune teller.

What I did when I started out on Twitter was I looked through who was following a few select people I was following. I also checked who those people were following. Whenever I recognized a name I followed that person. I added a few people each day and before long I had build a following.

[eborg9]

Absoluetley right vangogh 12 followers today.

It is a lot harder to find people you know on Twitter compared to facebook. Facebook suggests people you may know but twitter you have to go find them.

The whole purpose of a site like Twitter (for marketing) is to connect with people in your niche that you don't know and expand your reach and horizons.

You can search Twitter itself for people talking about your niche or use Twitter tools sites like Twello to find others.

Facebook is great for connecting with friends, but no since in using all of the social networks the exact same way, or else you really don't need to participate in ALL of them.

[lav]

I have 21 Followers Today!!!

Is this going to turn into another one of those counting threads??

You can search Twitter itself for people talking about your niche or use Twitter tools sites like Twello to find others.

I did some quick searches in Twitter but most of them irrelevant and time consuming. I'll take a look at Twello and see what its about thanks for the tip...

[vangogh]

Are you using Twitter through the site or do you have a desktop client? The desktop clients offer more features. The search is better. I have several searches set up and at times they'll produce irrelevant results, but it's usually based more on the words I've chosen. When I refine the search a little the results are pretty good. Not everyone is talking about what I want, but that's no different than searching Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

[lav]

I used twello and had some much better results thank you eborg

VG Im going to try tweetdeck first i think unless someone talks me out of it. I'll probably try a few different ones over the coming weeks to see which works best for me

35 followers today

[vangogh]

TweetDeck is good and quite popular. I've switched to others that do similar stuff, though I still haven't found the client I really want to use. Each seems to do one thing in a way I don't like or is missing something so I keep trying new ones every few weeks.

[KristineS]

I've settled on Seesmic Desktop myself, at least for the moment. I tried Tweetdeck and it just didn't work for me. I've been hoping to find something I like better than Seesmic, but so far, no dice.

[Coach Morse]

I'm on Twitter. Made it through the gazillion spammers. Now just hoping to make some more friends with the same interests. I haven't decided if I'll keep up with it or not... time will tell.

[vangogh]

I'm following you now George so you have to stay if just to entertain me. What I found with Twitter is the more I've used it the more I've liked it. When I say used it more I don't mean I'm on it all day. Some days I never open a Twitter client and the days I do it's usually a few minutes here and a few minutes there.

But the longer I've been with it the more ways I've seen how it can be useful. You do need to find people you're interested in knowing or at least interesting in what they're tweeting and it can take some time to figure out what you want to say, but it does come if you stick with it.

Kristine I used seesmic for awhile and liked it. Another one I tired and liked was Mixero. However I started looking for a native Mac client just to get the nicer looking interface. It bugged me a little to have one app not looking like all the rest. I settled on one called Nambu, which I really liked and did everything I wanted, but in the last few weeks it freezes upon opening, which makes it kind of useless. I'm hoping the developers fix the problem. In all fairness they still call it a beta, though that has come to mean less than it used to.

I've been back on the trail looking for new clients. Today I'm using Tweetie, which would be perfect except that it lacks the ability to group followers in any way, and the developer seems to be opposed to the idea of adding that kind of feature. It'll probably be a deal breaker for me. The other one I tried recently is Event Box. It doesn't quite do groups, but there's a workaround. Sadly the other day it crashed on me and wiped out much of the work I put into the workaround. It does however have support for Facebook as well as several other social sites and it can even do rss. I'll be experimenting with it more for the next week before deciding if I want to spend the $15 or $20 for it.