Comments on: Some Advice for Using Twitter http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/ Kevin Dewalt's experiences as a DC tech entrepreneur Mon, 24 May 2010 19:50:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Syed Rayhan http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/comment-page-1/#comment-19918 Syed Rayhan Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:07:58 +0000 http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/#comment-19918 Hi Kevin, After reading your blog on twitter, I finally joined the twitter world...:-) However, I was looking to learn how people are using it and how we should be using it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the topic. I agree with you. Here is what I am thinking how I should use it- 1) update where I am now but not what I am doing (e.g., out of town, at a conference, at an offsite meeting etc. but, not I am at a resturant eating...) 2) cature interesting thoughts that we all have from time to time after hearing something or seeing something that you want to later explore more or may use as a topic for your blog. I like your diea for using twitter to make a quick intro. I also like the suggestion for separating personal vs work twitter. However, I am in the same boat as Chris since my life is consumed by my startup for the most part...:-) Syed Rayhan blog: http://blog.syedrayhan.com company:http://www.code71.com product: http://www.scrumpad.com Hi Kevin,
After reading your blog on twitter, I finally joined the twitter world…:-) However, I was looking to learn how people are using it and how we should be using it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the topic. I agree with you. Here is what I am thinking how I should use it-

1) update where I am now but not what I am doing (e.g., out of town, at a conference, at an offsite meeting etc. but, not I am at a resturant eating…)

2) cature interesting thoughts that we all have from time to time after hearing something or seeing something that you want to later explore more or may use as a topic for your blog.

I like your diea for using twitter to make a quick intro. I also like the suggestion for separating personal vs work twitter. However, I am in the same boat as Chris since my life is consumed by my startup for the most part…:-)

Syed Rayhan
blog: http://blog.syedrayhan.com
company:http://www.code71.com
product: http://www.scrumpad.com

]]> By: Chris Bucchere http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/comment-page-1/#comment-17980 Chris Bucchere Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:10:52 +0000 http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/#comment-17980 Hi Kevin, Great post and glad to see your blog back online! Even though I have little (or no) separation between my work and personal lives, I realized recently that I should probably at least separate them on Twitter. To that end, I created http://twitter.com/thebdgway for business and left http://twitter.com/bucchere for personal. There's still quite a bit of cross-over because when you run your own business you really have no life. :-( I agree with much of your advice on tweeting "appropriately" although I'm a little less sensitive to my web stream. I follow pretty much everyone who follows me (except MLMers) so I get about 100 tweets an hour. That doesn't bother me. However, I'm *extremely* selective about who ends up going via SMS to my iPhone. That's limited to close friends, bdg-ers and precious few others. Once upon a time I followed Scoble with device updates on and that didn't last long -- don't get me wrong, I really like Robert and I respect what he does, but he was overwhelming both me and my mobile phone bill! I would add to your pseudo-rant that people need to make judgment calls about when to use DMs vs. when to make public replies (with "@"). Chances are if you're replying to something, I don't care about it, especially since Twitter doesn't let me know *what* you're replying to. Consider using a DM instead unless there's something publicly interesting about your reply. All-in-all, your post offers some great advice to fellow Twitterers, Kevin -- especially the part about making an RSS feed to track your replies that don't actually show up as replies. I rant about that here, BTW: http://blog.thebdgway.com/2008/08/are-twitter-replies-fundamentally.html Chris Hi Kevin,

Great post and glad to see your blog back online!

Even though I have little (or no) separation between my work and personal lives, I realized recently that I should probably at least separate them on Twitter. To that end, I created http://twitter.com/thebdgway for business and left http://twitter.com/bucchere for personal. There’s still quite a bit of cross-over because when you run your own business you really have no life. :-(

I agree with much of your advice on tweeting “appropriately” although I’m a little less sensitive to my web stream. I follow pretty much everyone who follows me (except MLMers) so I get about 100 tweets an hour. That doesn’t bother me. However, I’m *extremely* selective about who ends up going via SMS to my iPhone. That’s limited to close friends, bdg-ers and precious few others. Once upon a time I followed Scoble with device updates on and that didn’t last long — don’t get me wrong, I really like Robert and I respect what he does, but he was overwhelming both me and my mobile phone bill!

I would add to your pseudo-rant that people need to make judgment calls about when to use DMs vs. when to make public replies (with “@”). Chances are if you’re replying to something, I don’t care about it, especially since Twitter doesn’t let me know *what* you’re replying to. Consider using a DM instead unless there’s something publicly interesting about your reply.

All-in-all, your post offers some great advice to fellow Twitterers, Kevin — especially the part about making an RSS feed to track your replies that don’t actually show up as replies. I rant about that here, BTW:

http://blog.thebdgway.com/2008/08/are-twitter-replies-fundamentally.html

Chris

]]> By: CharlesG http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/comment-page-1/#comment-17941 CharlesG Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:44:42 +0000 http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2008/08/28/twitter_advice/#comment-17941 Thank you for posting this! I've had to learn the hard way not to fire away too many posts at once. I have noticed that some people actually WANT you to be a rapid fire poster and pass on information. Others feel they are being shouted at. I've also noticed that people who use TweetDeck or other tools don't mind a more rapid pace of posting. I'm trying to keep it modest and space out my posts, but sometimes a discussion gets really rolling and you can't help but make a bunch of tweets. I wish there was a time-limited "mute" button that you could apply to certain posters. If you want to keep following them, but you don't want to hear moment to moment details as they wait for a concert or have a fight with another Tweeter, you could just shut them off for a few hours and then automatically unblock them. Thanks! Twitter.com/CharlesGnilka Thank you for posting this! I’ve had to learn the hard way not to fire away too many posts at once. I have noticed that some people actually WANT you to be a rapid fire poster and pass on information. Others feel they are being shouted at.

I’ve also noticed that people who use TweetDeck or other tools don’t mind a more rapid pace of posting. I’m trying to keep it modest and space out my posts, but sometimes a discussion gets really rolling and you can’t help but make a bunch of tweets.

I wish there was a time-limited “mute” button that you could apply to certain posters. If you want to keep following them, but you don’t want to hear moment to moment details as they wait for a concert or have a fight with another Tweeter, you could just shut them off for a few hours and then automatically unblock them.

Thanks!

Twitter.com/CharlesGnilka

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