Comments on: Two weeks on Twitter

By: Derek Wylie

Derek Wylie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:04:30 +0000

There you go, you have one more follower Darren

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:37:08 +0000

Good idea Grant, if anyone wants to cyber-stalk me my Twitter name is darrenjadams.

By: Paul Mooney

Paul Mooney — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:06 +0000

Hi Darren

I do follow approx 250 users, but I just do a quick scan of twitter from time to time. I dont think anyone would have the time to review everything people says. Keep with it – its very useful. And take a look at google latitude when you can.

By: Geoff Higgins

Geoff Higgins — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:19:13 +0000

Hi Darren,

Like yourself I’m a relative newcomer. Believe me, I don’t need anything to waste time however I signed up to follow Lotusphere and can say I haven’t regretted it. I think it makes you feel better connected to people in the Lotus community and for people like myself who don’t have time/inclination to blog it can help reach out to partners, customers etc.

FYI – we use Yammer internally and it has a lot more features than Twitter including using groups.

By: Grant Norman

Grant Norman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:10:51 +0000

I agree, its not too useful from a business point of view though it is an easy way to contact people and find out what people are doing, but there is so much non-work stuff wrapped up in there that things get missed easily. Particularly if following lots of people in the US or further afield. First check of updates in the morning is time consuming as a lot of people I’m following tweet while I’m asleep.

There are some apps that can help filter things, though I haven’t looked into that either. #tags can help identify posts per topic and there are search sites to help follow particular tags http://hashtags.org/. Another way is to take business followers away from personal life followers and set up another account.

Also, you might want to put your Twitter name in the post so people can find you easier.