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Ask HN: Effective use of Twitter?
I may be clinging too much to the past, but I have yet to find any particular interest in reading Twitter feeds, and have yet to think of a good way to use one myself.
Any folks here have examples, either your own or someone you know, of effective use of Twitter?... Either for increasing sales/clients/business, or for literary purposes, or whatever?
- yan 17y agoeffective use of twitter: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays edit: i'm serious.
- tjr 17y agoNot quite my style of reading, but great concept! Thanks!
- kakooljay 17y agoCheck out Twitter API: Up and Running: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154622 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154622 Chapter 1 has a great section called "Creative Uses of Twitter" (& a history of Twitter). Examples range from breaking news & games like Artwiculate to organizing protests & flash mobs. Also, Twitter is adding geotagging [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/aug/21/twitter-google http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/aug/21/twitter-goog...], so you'll soon be able to get feeds for, say, restaurant deals in your area...
- chaosprophet 17y agoEffective use of twitter??? Keep it blocked. At the least when you're working on something.
- seasoup 17y agothe best use of twitter I ever made was when i was listening to pandora and it stopped playing. I tried a few things, figured out it wasn't my network so i thought that maybe pandora was down. i went on twitter and searched #pandora... sure enough, 4 posts in the last few minutes that pandora was down. I added my tweet saying the same thing. Later, my wife was stuck in a huge traffic jam, i went on twitter and searched for her location and the word 'accident' and sure enough, up came a link to a web page detailing why there was such congestion and how far it went. twitter is good for finding out about something that is happening RIGHT now.
- Travis 17y agoMy startup has used twitter really effectively the past few months to do a few things. 1) Drive traffic to our blog, 2) drive people with a need for our service, to our service Of course, we're a b2b targeted at engineers / sales guys, so we have a strong early adopter / seeker basis for our guys. But yeah, we've driven a worthwhile number of users to our site through judicious (and not even obsessive!) use of twitter. Even had to write a twitter bookmarklet to manage how we broadcast everything.
- tjr 17y agoSee also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881307 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881307
- kakooljay 17y ago8 great uses: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9118441/8_ways_Twitter_will_change_your_life?taxonomyId=11&pageNumber=2 http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9118441/8_ways_Twitte...