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By: 52 Links on Twitter for Business, with Brief Descriptions « Web 2.0 For Small Biz

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:18:12 +0000

[...] Twitter Demystified and Debunked 4 myths: 1. It’s microblogging, or something. 2. It’s all about answering the question “What are you doing?” 3. It’s a time suck, and 4. There are no problems in Twitterville. [...]

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:07:26 +0000

Funny.

@Kate aka @KateHeartofBiz on Twitter - welcome to the Twitter Bar & Grill.

You can think of it as a cafe rather than a bar. Or even a spiritual retreat center if you like. The point is that hey, you’re not going to get on with everyone but that it really is possible to find your gang and feel at home.

I don’t think you’re boring!

It’s just that some people forget that Twitter is a safe place to Be Themselves. So they try to be fancy experts and give value and blah blah blah.

It’s a really great place to play, is the point I wanted to make I guess. Anyway, yay. Welcome.

By: Kate Williams

Kate Williams — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:48:06 +0000

Whew, Havi. This was helpful. In my first 24 hours of Tweeting, I can honestly say I’ve been boring and not really sure how to hang out. I have not spent time in bars for year and I don’t drink alcohol, ugh. OK, but I do live with the voice that mostly doesn’t have a voice. I suppose it will take some time to get in the groove, but at least now I know not to answer the questions, What are you doing? Yikes. I can be so naive and overly truthful, like I just ate dinner and watched some Rachel Maddow (I love her). Anyway, thanks for this post and know that if my tweets are boring, I’m making constant efforts to stop that newbie tendency. :)

Kate Williamss last blog post..Impressions: Finding That First Right Employee

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:17:46 +0000

I recently joined twitter and am loving it. I found your article very helpful. So much so that when I blogged about joining twitter (my website is about overcoming math, science, and technology phobias, and for some people twitter is definitely a technology phobia!), I linked to your article. Sheilas last blog post..What is twitter all about?

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What is Twitter all about | No More Math, Science,or Technology Phobia — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:13:27 +0000

[...] read this article that helped me “get” what twittering is. She compares twitter to hanging out at a bar. [...]

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:41:21 +0000

I love the bar analogy, Havi. I love how you relish in being yourself and exposing your quirks.

So of course I follow you on Twitter… even though I haven’t yet gotten around to start going into that bar all that much :)

Yans last blog post..How can you feel grateful when life is hitting you hard?

By: claire

claire — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:35:23 +0000

Great post! (am I am NOT a spam bot, I mean it :))

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Stilgherrian · Links for 26 August 2008 through 30 August 2008 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:39:45 +0000

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The Creation of Twitter Best Practices: Round 1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:40:12 +0000

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By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:18:23 +0000

@Vicki - Several of my Twitter friends - including my sister, who first got me into Twitter ages back - have locked tweet streams. Some of the reasons I’ve heard for locking include:

* Privacy from an ex (esp. if that ex is also on Twitter)
* Ability to tweet without risking employment at a touchy workplace
* Ability to tweet highly personal content to a small subset of folks (often on a second account).

One friend has a second account he uses just when traveling to sensitive areas for journalistic reasons, to which he constantly reports his physical location. It’s an account only a select few trusted friends and family can access, and not something he’d want to post publicly or spam his main followers set with, but it’s an important safety measure for him and helps reassure his family.

I guess for those folks, Twitter *is* more like a private dinner party than the neighborhood bar.