Twitter anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Kathryn Stewart on June 14, 2008 at 5:35pm

sure do! mostly for personal right now but open to other possibilities. follow me @arewhyen

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 15, 2008 at 9:45pm

I use both personal (@amaaanda) and for work (@mequodadaily). i'm addicted but find it hopeless trying to convince people who don't use it yet :) I'll follow you :)

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Permalink Reply by Erika Geiss on June 15, 2008 at 1:52pm

I tweet (@emsgeiss). For me, it's a combination of both personal and for business. I also Plurk, which I learned about from Mack Collins' tweets. Similar platform (140 char microblogging), but with an interface that makes conversations easier. As a historian, I love the timeline feature at Plurk, but it can take a bit of getting used to for some. Feel free to add me at either Twitter or Plurk.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 15, 2008 at 9:48pm

followed! I haven't really gotten into Plurk, I really love Twitter for all of the 3rd party apps it goes with (Brightkite, TwitPic, Twitxr, Twhirl, etc.) plus I find all kinds of great bloggers on Twitter (@techcrunch, @problogger, etc.) Any interesting reads on Plurk? I wonder if these bloggers maintain more than one microblogging platform actually.. hmm.. I should check that out..

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Permalink Reply by Erika Geiss on June 16, 2008 at 11:05am

There are a lot of great reads on Plurk. One of the things I like about it is the threaded conversation--can "talk" to several people at one time about the same topic...kind of like chatroom meets microblogging. That's a good question about maintaining more than one microbloging platform...so far though, the people I've been following/friended have the same platform/personal brand.

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Permalink Reply by Donald Seckler on June 16, 2008 at 12:08pm

I've used it for personal stuff. Seems like a black hole that you can sucked into. I wonder how mainstream it will get. The users right now seem 99% techies. I haven't used it from a phone yet. If it gets beyond the thechnophiles, I can see huge impact for it as the extension of IM'ing. Or maybe its an intermediate step to the Next Big Thing.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 17, 2008 at 12:55pm

It's a black hole for sure, especially for techies. I myself use it sort of like IMing, but only when I need to or feel like it which is nice. I used my twitter friends to do a math equation once that I couldn't figure out, it was great :) There are a few really good industry-related twitterers out there, here are a few of my favorite follows: @problogger, @copyblogger, @chrisbrogan, @jasonfalls, @techcrunch, and the always brutal, yet entertaining @amandachapel.

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Permalink Reply by Rory Brown on June 18, 2008 at 8:11am

Yes - I use Twitter and wrote recently about some of the reasons for doing so. I am experimenting with not using it this week and we had a debates at Search Engine Strategies Toronto yesterday about whether it was a great business tool or a huge waste of time.

www.twitter.com/rorybrown

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 18, 2008 at 11:56am

Great blog, I also wrote an article last month called Publishers Using Twitter. Your Twitter usage list is great!

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Permalink Reply by Rory Brown on June 19, 2008 at 7:06am

Amanda - Chris Winfield has posted the slides from his presentation online - entirely constructed using Twitter.

http://www.10e20.com/blog/2008/06/18/twitter-ultimate-time-waster-o...

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Permalink Reply by Kathi Simonsen on August 10, 2009 at 10:59am

The link doesn't work. Please post again. I'd like to know more about publishers using Twitter.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on August 17, 2009 at 5:12pm

Here is the article, though it's a little outdated now:

http://www.mequoda.com/articles/social-media-strategy/publishers-us...

We've posted a bunch more since then though:

http://www.mequoda.com/articles/social-media-strategy/how-magazine-...

http://www.mequoda.com/articles/social-media-strategy/seven-ways-to...

http://www.mequoda.com/articles/social-media-strategy/five-ideas-fo...

http://www.mequoda.com/articles/social-media-strategy/the-secret-sa...

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