I don't get it! What's the big deal about Twitter?

[Aaron Moser]

Hey Warriors,

Call me ignorant or whatever you want but I just don't see the point of using Twitter. I mean c'mon! You have to be a total loser to be interested in what other people are doing with their day right?

I know I could careless with what you do with your time!

I'm trying to understand why everyone and their grama is jumping on board with it?

- Is it the new way to get JV's?

- Is it for social status?

- Is it for lonely people who want to make friends?

- Is it a bunch of losers following each other and "tweeting"?

I don't really mean to be rude or offend anyone... Just voicing my personal opinion while trying to be funny at the same time.

So tell me... What am I really missing out on by not using Twitter?

Flame away!

Thanks,

[Michael Mayhew]

Get yourself 1,000 plus followers, direct them to a blog post with a recommendation, and then ask us that question again

[M Thompson]

Originally Posted by Aaron Moser

Hey Warriors,

Call me ignorant or whatever you want but I just don't see the point of using Twitter. I mean c'mon! You have to be a total loser to be interested in what other people are doing with their day right?

I know I could careless with what you do with your time!

I'm trying to understand why everyone and their grama is jumping on board with it?

- Is it the new way to get JV's?

- Is it for social status?

- Is it for lonely people who want to make friends?

- Is it a bunch of losers following each other and "tweeting"?

I don't really mean to be rude or offend anyone... Just voicing my personal opinion while trying to be funny at the same time.

So tell me... What am I really missing out on by not using Twitter?

Flame away!

Thanks,

Lol this post coupled with your signature made me laugh!!

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by M Thompson

Lol this post coupled with your signature made me laugh!!

Same here, hehehehehehe.

[Aaron Moser]

Ok, so it's a new social form of list building? Blah... I'd still rather build a list the traditional way.

Still not convinced it's worth my time. Plus it seems so ridiculous to post about what you do with you time. Every hour of the day...

Let's see...

Oh right now I'm posting on the warrior forum sipping my coffee. Whoo! Then I'm going to make a phone call to one of my friends about last night Football game.

...BORING!

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by Aaron Moser

Ok, so it's a new social form of list building? Blah... I'd still rather build a list the traditional way.

Still not convinced it's worth my time. Plus it seems so ridiculous to post about what you do with you time. Every hour of the day...

Let's see...

Oh right now I'm posting on the warrior forum sipping my coffee. Whoo! Then I'm going to make a phone call to one of my friends about last night Football game.

...BORING!

Cool - don't waste your time with it. I get bored with the "Ching, Ching" sound of the sales I'm pulling off it.

[JayXtreme]

Originally Posted by Michael Mayhew

Get yourself 1,000 plus followers, direct them to a blog post with a recommendation, and then ask us that question again

I concur... and I don't even have this many followers yet, but I can feel the power...

Interacting with those in my industry is much more pleasant than sat at my PC typin

"I could care what you do with your time!"

Peace

Jay

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Cool - don't waste your time with it. I get bored with the "Ching, Ching" sound of the sales I'm pulling off it.

Me too. Money, ewww, gross.

[Paul Duxbury]

It's an interesting take especially given your signature file - maybe try it and then see what you think?

Oh btw I arrived here by way of someone tweeting on Twitter about it - so you see you got the benefit of Twitter without even knowing it :-)

[alexshelton]

Hehe, I think its fun, you get to stay up to date with stuff without making too much of an effort, new product out? you bet atleast someones talking about it...

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by Aaron Moser

Ok, so it's a new social form of list building? Blah... I'd still rather build a list the traditional way.

Still not convinced it's worth my time. Plus it seems so ridiculous to post about what you do with you time. Every hour of the day...

Let's see...

Oh right now I'm posting on the warrior forum sipping my coffee. Whoo! Then I'm going to make a phone call to one of my friends about last night Football game.

...BORING!

Of course, I'm not trying to start a little controversial thread to promote my signature for other Social Networking junk. So I reported the thread...hopefully others will follow suit.

[Dana_W]

It does sort of remind me of when people come here like "Please, tell me how I can make $100 a day online?" And their signature line says "Click here to make $1000 a day online guaranteed!"

Twitter is a different type of social networking, but it's not that different than Facebook. If you hate it, don't do it

[Keith Boisvert]

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Of course, I'm not trying to start a little controversial thread to promote my signature for other Social Networking junk. So I reported the thread...hopefully others will follow suit.

Boy,the glass is always half empty with you eh? Haha. I was thinking the same thing actually.

Hell, up until about 4 hours ago I didn't see the point of it either. But I never came on the forum talking smack about it.

Sheesh.

~keith

[JayXtreme]

Originally Posted by Keith Boisvert

Boy,the glass is always half empty with you eh? Haha. I was thinking the same thing actually.

Hell, up until about 4 hours ago I didn't see the point of it either. But I never came on the forum talking smack about it.

Sheesh.

~keith

Consider yourself officially stalked keith ...errr.. I mean followed in the usual twitter fashion

Peace

Jay

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by Keith Boisvert

Boy,the glass is always half empty with you eh? Haha. I was thinking the same thing actually.

Hell, up until about 4 hours ago I didn't see the point of it either. But I never came on the forum talking smack about it.

Sheesh.

~keith

LOL...my glass never get's half full dude, hehehehehe.

Stalking you on Twitter now

[Keith Boisvert]

Originally Posted by JayXtreme

Consider yourself officially stalked keith ...errr.. I mean followed in the usual twitter fashion

Peace

Jay

Haha. Ditto. Its nice to be stalked for a change, usually I am the one doing the stalking...err, nevermind. Wrong forum


keith

[Gene Pimentel]

And just like magic, his sig is gone!

[Aaron Moser]

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Of course, I'm not trying to start a little controversial thread to promote my signature for other Social Networking junk. So I reported the thread...hopefully others will follow suit.

Mike,

I really wasn't trying to draw attention to my WSO so I removed it and I honestly don't think Twitter users are losers. Sorry if that offended anyone!

I guess my approach to being funny back fired!

Can we still be friends?

[Paul Duxbury]

Okay I am following you now Keith as well LOL

Mike - wow I am shocked do people really start threads just to promote their link?!?! *shocked look* LOL

[Dan C. Rinnert]

Originally Posted by Gene Pimentel

And just like magic, his sig is gone!

I feel so lucky. Finally a "controversial" thread I saw at the beginning, instead of hearing about it later and wondering what happened.

[admin]

Here's one thing I still don't get about twitter. How do the majority of you who use it actually see any of this stuff?

Do you really sit there refreshing the page or what?

By phone? Surely the by phone is not the majority...or is it?

I just don't remember to even look at my twitter page for weeks so I just don't see how you even see these messages... :-)

[Dana_W]

Aaron, seriously, if you give Twitter a try and genuinely put a little time into it, I think you will see big rewards. I am sitting here writing for a ghostwriting now that I found on Twitter. I had two writing inquiries today, from people on Twitter. And people like Willie Crawford, Frank Kern, John Reese, and Joel Comm, who are very focused on making money, would not be on there regularly posting if they were not getting an ROI.

Here's a free tip: Post regularly about your business and what you are doing with your business. If you have a lot of followers, the results will be phenomenal.

[JayXtreme]

Originally Posted by admin

Here's one thing I still don't get about twitter. How do the majority of you who use it actually see any of this stuff?

Do you really sit there refreshing the page or what?

By phone? Surely the by phone is not the majority...or is it?

I just don't remember to even look at my twitter page for weeks so I just don't see how you even see these messages... :-)

It's a fresh page each time you visit Allen... I usually drop in to post my dribbles and there is plenty going on.. so I get involved, drop out and then drop back in at times... there is a button to check messages that are written directly at you...

The rest is history

Peace

Jay

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by admin

Here's one thing I still don't get about twitter. How do the majority of you who use it actually see any of this stuff?

Do you really sit there refreshing the page or what?

By phone? Surely the by phone is not the majority...or is it?

I just don't remember to even look at my twitter page for weeks so I just don't see how you even see these messages... :-)

Dang straight. I do sit there and refresh the page. Also, once you post a Tweet, when you come back later...look on the right side of the page where it says @replies, and you will see all the replies that people made to your Tweet.

Like "Allen Says, you are a Monkey God Genius!" or "Allen Says, you are a #@$%!!!"

Come over to the Twitter side. We have cookies.

[Dan C. Rinnert]

Originally Posted by admin

Do you really sit there refreshing the page or what?

Keep it open in a browser window and periodically refresh it.

[Keith Boisvert]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

Dang straight. I do sit there and refresh the page. Also, once you post a Tweet, when you come back later...look on the right side of the page where it says @replies, and you will see all the replies that people made to your Tweet.

Like "Allen Says, you are a Monkey God Genius!" or "Allen Says, you are a #@$%!!!"

Come over to the Twitter side. We have cookies.

Cookies? WTF? I didn't see cookies. Foiled again. Ah well, I like my cookies burnt anyway.

keith

[Neil Morgan]

Allen

How do the majority of you who use it actually see any of this stuff?

I use Twhirl - a free desktop application that fetches them for you. It's just like an RSS reader with the added functionality that Twitter provides such as replying and direct messaging.

It's very unobtrusive and keeps you updated without lifting a finger:

twhirl | the social software client

Cheers,

Neil

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by admin

Here's one thing I still don't get about twitter. How do the majority of you who use it actually see any of this stuff?

Do you really sit there refreshing the page or what?

By phone? Surely the by phone is not the majority...or is it?

I just don't remember to even look at my twitter page for weeks so I just don't see how you even see these messages... :-)

I had the same problem so I wrote a program to run on the Windows Desktop to work with it. We're releasing the beta tonight or tomorrow - it's free and very, very cool.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Neil Morgan

Allen



I use Twhirl - a free desktop application that fetches them for you. It's just like an RSS reader with the added functionality that Twitter provides such as replying and direct messaging.

It's very unobtrusive and keeps you updated without lifting a finger:

twhirl | the social software client

Cheers,

Neil

Ah...I was wondering if there was a desktop application in the mix...

[Michael Mayhew]

Originally Posted by admin

Here's one thing I still don't get about twitter. How do the majority of you who use it actually see any of this stuff?

Do you really sit there refreshing the page or what?

By phone? Surely the by phone is not the majority...or is it?

I just don't remember to even look at my twitter page for weeks so I just don't see how you even see these messages... :-)

To be honest, I still don't get the "How" either???

All I know is that when I Tweet, I get followers, and alot-a-times customers.

I just quit trying to figure it out and started trying to get as many followers as I can

Approaching 1,500 followers. Still scratching head???

[Jose Delgado]

Originally Posted by admin

Ah...I was wondering if there was a desktop application in the mix...

There's not just one Allen.

I've seen a couple.

Like TweetDeck, twitterfox and thwirl.

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by Keith Boisvert

Cookies? WTF? I didn't see cookies. Foiled again. Ah well, I like my cookies burnt anyway.

keith

Too late, I ate them all.

Yes, some people use Twhirl, I do have it on my desktop. Or Twitterfox, or Mike's Tweetybot when he gets it done.

[ExRat]

Hi,

Let's see...

Oh right now I'm posting on the warrior forum sipping my coffee. Whoo! Then I'm going to make a phone call to one of my friends about last night Football game.

...BORING!

But there are no rules regarding -

a) having to post often

b) having to post boring, useless info that answers the question presented by twitter - 'what are you doing'

So therefore you could post irregular, infrequent tweets that -

1) make people think

2) have great value

3) create conversation (that might end up being credited back to the source)

4) leave them wanting more

5) aren't promotional on the surface

It would be interesting to see what could happen if someone only took five minutes out of every other day just to do that...

Just like on every blog, website, social site etc...the majority will follow the well-trodden path, imitating each other, looking for ways to get the most number of words out there with the least amount of thought and effort.

Others will do the opposite.

Just another microcosm. Another battle of quantity vs quality. Conformity vs differentiation.

More importantly - what's next? Where has twitter taken online communication and what comes next? Can it be narrowed down and 'niched'? What parallel opportunities does it's success create?
Can the concept be twinned with others - (Digg-type ratings for most popular tweets)? In what type of interesting ways could it be monetised for mainstream or for specific niches - or in what type of ways can the use of it be monetised/incentivised (within the site itself) for the users?

Whoever can predict these and act upon them can possibly have themselves some busy sites.

[JayXtreme]

Originally Posted by ExRat

Hi,



But there are no rules regarding -

a) having to post often

b) having to post boring, useless info that answers the question presented by twitter - 'what are you doing'

So therefore you could post irregular, infrequent tweets that -

1) make people think

2) have great value

3) create conversation (that might end up being credited back to the source)

4) leave them wanting more

5) aren't promotional on the surface

It would be interesting to see what could happen if someone only took five minutes out of every other day just to do that...

But... Roger...

You're not following me...

[David Williams]

I don't get alot of this social networking site business either but... I don't need to "get it", I just need to know how to use these things to drive traffic to my ultra cool t-shirt website.

[Paul Schlegel]

Man. I hate posting this, but I'm going to admit that I really didn't get it until reading this particular thread.

For those of you who have posted are there any particular courses you'd recommend about best uses of Twitter?

I just canceled out of Howie Schwarz's Twitter system, because I really was NOT getting it.

I feel like I've just had one of those "aha" moments that sometimes take me a LONG time to get to.

[Scott Ames]

Originally Posted by admin

Ah...I was wondering if there was a desktop application in the mix...

Sort of... Twitter can be shown on FaceBook, MySpace, and perhaps others. There are also some third party apps that go on the desktop.

Heck you might even find a plugin or widget so that this forum could show someone's tweets when people view their profile.

Oops.. here is one already. Just did a search.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=166382

[NewbiesDiary]

Originally Posted by Aaron Moser

Ok, so it's a new social form of list building? Blah... I'd still rather build a list the traditional way.

Still not convinced it's worth my time. Plus it seems so ridiculous to post about what you do with you time. Every hour of the day...

Let's see...

Oh right now I'm posting on the warrior forum sipping my coffee. Whoo! Then I'm going to make a phone call to one of my friends about last night Football game.

...BORING!

tweet:

I just finished drinking my white choc mocha late, I'm checkin the warrior forum & then I'm gonna cut some vintage chenille to list on eBay - here's the chenille... tinyurlBlaBlaBla

hmm - sorry I thought I was on twitter!

[Josh Anderson]

An affiliate of ours just "tweeted" about our product with his affiliate link...

One tweet $500 commission check... and rising

People follow him to know what he is up to by the minute so i assume its a pretty effective way to affiliate market as well just like sending an email blast to a list but without the filter problems.

[KarlWarren]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Heck you might even find a plugin or widget so that this forum could show someone's tweets when people view their profile.

Allen's aleady one step ahead on that

[BrianMcLeod]

The thing about Twitter is that no matter how invested you are in being "too cool for Twitter", sooner than later you'll come around. THEY ALL DO...

And guess what? Then they have a blast with it and they're hooked.

Resistance is futile. You HAVE been assimilated.

Tweet.... Tweet.... Tweet...

Besides, when you have erudite twilosophers like me brightening the Twittersphere with my nonsense, how can you lose?

Err.. never mind that last question...

Brian

[nursewriter]

You can also set your ezine articles account up to post a link to every article that goes live.

When your article gets approved it get tweeted automatically.

I just started on Twitter and am still learning.


Lucinda

[jimewing2121]

I really like twitter. I feel like it is a great way to get followers and a great way to see what is working with others. Now, at first I did think it was a bit pointless until I have a couple sales from twitter. Its an easy way to get a targeted audience.

[Peter Bestel]

So is Aaron not partaking in this thread any more?

Are you convinced yet, Aaron or have you dug your heels in and refuse to Twitter despite the possible extra profits?

I'm sure you're not that short-sighted or belligerent. Go on, fess up, you've just been Twittering by yourself haven't you?

If you've just joined, then welcome to the club.

Peter

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by markquinn

Man. I hate posting this, but I'm going to admit that I really didn't get it until reading this particular thread.

For those of you who have posted are there any particular courses you'd recommend about best uses of Twitter?

I just canceled out of Howie Schwarz's Twitter system, because I really was NOT getting it.

I feel like I've just had one of those "aha" moments that sometimes take me a LONG time to get to.

Go on Twitter. Follow some big name internet marketers on there. Observe what they do. There's nothing like reverse engineering!

[Karin]

I was one of those non believers for a while. But I figured that it won't hurt to try it. It does not take much time and it is yet another form of marketing. And as some of you have already said, it does bring in great sales.

It is also very effective to get some outsourcing done if you are in need of it.

I am sure that there are many options that I have not even figured out yet, but one thing is clear. A massive amount of people is active on twitter and once you sign up and make a few posts you will immediately get followers. It does not take much.

It's not just a way to build a list - you forge relationships this way. I use it as a "Water cooler" of sorts. I work from home so I don't have colleagues. It's the quickest, most convenient way to "get to know" people on the 'net and see how they tick. And yes, I do get traffic too. I've gotten ideas through it, gotten to know other business owners, etc. I didn't get it at first either. I thought, why do people care "what I'm doing". The answer is - they do - and they expect that you'll care about them, too. This gives twitter a personal accent that traditional list building often fails at.

[Aaron Moser]

Originally Posted by LoudMac

The thing about Twitter is that no matter how invested you are in being "too cool for Twitter", sooner than later you'll come around. THEY ALL DO...

And guess what? Then they have a blast with it and they're hooked.

Resistance is futile. You HAVE been assimilated.

Tweet.... Tweet.... Tweet...

Besides, when you have erudite twilosophers like me brightening the Twittersphere with my nonsense, how can you lose?

Err.. never mind that last question...

Brian

Brian,

That's hilarious!

Looks like I have been officially assimilated into the Twitter sphere! Better late than never...

I've signed up for Twitter, FINALLY! - LOL

Follow Me On Twitter

I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one and that others have conformed now too.

[Aaron Moser]

Originally Posted by Peter Bestel

So is Aaron not partaking in this thread any more?

Are you convinced yet, Aaron or have you dug your heels in and refuse to Twitter despite the possible extra profits?

I'm sure you're not that short-sighted or belligerent. Go on, fess up, you've just been Twittering by yourself haven't you?

If you've just joined, then welcome to the club.

Peter

I guess I got sucked in like everyone else! Does that make me a loser now too? -LOL J/K!

Hope to see you in there!

[Dana_W]

Okay, I'm following you, Aaron.

Twitter allows you to socialize while marketing. The Warrior Forum is much more focused. I went on Twitter to ask for help with my son's math problem and got a whole bunch of answers. The social interaction that I miss from no longer being in an office...I get there.