Are you a big Twitter fan? Do you love telling people what you are doing as you walk around your house or drive around your city? Are you one of those GeoTwitter fans that has to tell people the EXACT address you are at ?
Wow. OK. Life needed on aisle 10.
I’ve been playing with Twitter recently and I have come to the professional assessment that it is a complete waste of time. There are two major reasons for this:
1. Nobody needs to know where I am and what I am doing at every moment of the day. I like my privacy and unless you are directly involved in an event in my life why would I want tell you about it? Someone taking the time to post Twitter updates every hour about what is going on is proof that they don’t have much going on. I think the word we are looking for here is: Irony
2. I have way too much going on in my life to be interested in keeping up with 20 other peoples lives and what they are doing. If I was a hard-working person working on my dreams why would I want to stop, take the time to tell you that I have a callus on my foot, tell you when I am going to the doctor to have it removed, and then relate to you the post-surgery details?
I have been hopping in to Twitter every now and then and it is amazing to me how much people feel the need to share every detail of every waking moment. It is unhealthy and frankly sometimes damn scary. When did personal pride and the desire for privacy get thrown the door? Do you really think that we need to know that you want BBQ?
Will I get rid of my Twitter account ? No. But I’ll use to my advantage for marketing and telling people about blog updates. It will be good for me telling people that care about updates to projects that I am working on. But you will not see me in there every day telling you that I am out shopping for shoes or that I am out clubbing. Seriously.
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Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Yes, unfortunately lots of people just spew all of their thoughts without filter, consideration, or common sense.
Personally, I think of it as having the water cooler or office kitchen right next to your cube. There is a continuous stream of people and conversation that I hop in and out of. Some of it has value, some is inane, some is news/event-related, and some are just pleasantries.
More than anything I use it to build my brand and keep in touch with the rest of the DC Tech Scene. It’s an easy way to see what others are thinking/talking about, what is going on, and generally be a (tiny!) part of each others’ lives. I think it’s pulled us tighter together as a community.
Thanks for the idea Keith. I’ll probably start doing the same thing. Twitter could be a great brand building tool if you get enough followers. Now how to get more followers…!
shit is a complete waste of time.
” i’m eating cereal
and watching tv”
okay? soo fucking what .
Exactly we dont need to know what you`re doing
every moment of every day.
who the fuck cares? honestly.
Is Twitter a Waste of time… What’s it cost to Twitter… not much…
COMPARATIVE COST FACTS
About 82% of web cost per click (cpc) advertising costs from $ 0.00 to $ 0.30 (cents cpc) and of that more than half is between $ 0.10 and $ 0.19 (cents cpc) Say you pay an average of $0.15 cpc 1200 clicks will cost you $180.00
“SEM firms typically bill monthly. They manage your PPC search advertising and paid-inclusion spend. For core professional services, which include complete SEO, expect to spend from $90,000 to $240,000 per Web site annually for a full-service SEM firm or $50,000 to $90,000 for a solo consultant or smaller SEM company.” clickz.com
Advertising budget?? Take autos as an example: Cost per click for “autos” is $0.29 – $0.64, Clicks per day is 9,800 – 12,400, Cost per day $2,830.00k – $7,980.00 spread between a reported 4 advertisers. spyfu.com
So that’s on average $10,810.00 per day / 4 = $2702.50 X 365 days = $ 986,412.50 p.a. / 12 = $82,201.04 p.month
I ask again considering the potential reach… is it worth it?
Ric lots more here: http://tr.im/kplb
Thanks for the idea Keith. I'll probably start doing the same thing. Twitter could be a great brand building tool if you get enough followers. Now how to get more followers…!