RE: [WebDNA] [OT] Twitter/Facebook (was: talklist & twitter)
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texte = Honestly, I didn't either until I attended a recent talk about social media and saw how it was being used by businesses. Although Twitter is used by some as a social site, it really seems (to me) to be just another form of advertising. Many businesses are using it to keep in touch with their customers and stay in front of them as much as possible (as well as celebrities and their fans, I guess). We're just starting out with Twitter and will post deals now and then but only time will tell just how effective it is. Anyway...things you probably already know...just thought I'd share. ;) Tana -----Original Message----- From: Dan Strong [mailto:webdna@danstrong.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:20 AM To: talk@webdna.us Subject: [WebDNA] [OT] Twitter/Facebook (was: talklist & twitter) [unsolicited_commentary] I have to say that I agree with that statement to some degree...fundamentally, I don't "get" twitter. I just can't see the value of sending traffic from my website to another one where people post 140 chars about what they had for breakfast or how big that new boil is, and in fact i find most of it to be downright inane. I almost never post on the site and i read other people's posts even less. My clients, however, really want to get onboard, and I am charging them for that, so I guess in that sense it's good for me, but I pretty much expect them to ask me to quietly remove the twitter stuff from their sites next year at about this time. Maybe I'm just old-school. Facebook on the other hand has turned out to be pretty cool for me from a personal standpoint. Like twitter, I hardly ever post on my "wall" and if I do it's just snarky nonsense, and I occasionally read other people's posts when I have time, but I have reconnected with distant family, old friends and other people I've known (and liked) throughout my life but lost touch with and as a result have had lunch with some of them and have made plans to see others. Maybe some business may come from these connections, but that is not why I'm there. [/unsolicited_commentary] [prediction] Facebook's new user feeds capability will be the end of twitter. By year's end this will be apparent, and by next summer twitter will go the way of myspace and classmates.com [/prediction] Ok, story time is over. Back to work. -Dan On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:46:11 -0500 Patrick McCormick
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Honestly, I didn't either until I attended a recent talk about social media and saw how it was being used by businesses. Although Twitter is used by some as a social site, it really seems (to me) to be just another form of advertising. Many businesses are using it to keep in touch with their customers and stay in front of them as much as possible (as well as celebrities and their fans, I guess). We're just starting out with Twitter and will post deals now and then but only time will tell just how effective it is. Anyway...things you probably already know...just thought I'd share. ;) Tana -----Original Message----- From: Dan Strong [mailto:webdna@danstrong.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:20 AM To: talk@webdna.us Subject: [WebDNA] [OT] Twitter/Facebook (was: talklist & twitter) [unsolicited_commentary] I have to say that I agree with that statement to some degree...fundamentally, I don't "get" twitter. I just can't see the value of sending traffic from my website to another one where people post 140 chars about what they had for breakfast or how big that new boil is, and in fact i find most of it to be downright inane. I almost never post on the site and i read other people's posts even less. My clients, however, really want to get onboard, and I am charging them for that, so I guess in that sense it's good for me, but I pretty much expect them to ask me to quietly remove the twitter stuff from their sites next year at about this time. Maybe I'm just old-school. Facebook on the other hand has turned out to be pretty cool for me from a personal standpoint. Like twitter, I hardly ever post on my "wall" and if I do it's just snarky nonsense, and I occasionally read other people's posts when I have time, but I have reconnected with distant family, old friends and other people I've known (and liked) throughout my life but lost touch with and as a result have had lunch with some of them and have made plans to see others. Maybe some business may come from these connections, but that is not why I'm there. [/unsolicited_commentary] [prediction] Facebook's new user feeds capability will be the end of twitter. By year's end this will be apparent, and by next summer twitter will go the way of myspace and classmates.com [/prediction] Ok, story time is over. Back to work. -Dan On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:46:11 -0500 Patrick McCormick wrote: > Or maybe ahead of the fad evaporation curve... --------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/
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