Earlier this week, my company asked me to fully engage it in social media. In my world, that’s pretty easy to do – I set them up with a Facebook page, a YouTube account, and a dreaded Twitter account. I actually didn’t know much about the Twitter account and just signed them up without providing any followup. Clearly, that wasn’t going to work since I’m one of two “technical” people in an office filled with about 20 folks who know more about money than about social media. So, I was stuck with having to do some “tweeting” on this Twitter platform.
Frankly, it’s one of the dumbest things that I’ve ever done online. You get 140 characters to say what you’re doing or to give an update on what’s going on in your world. My response to this is – “Who cares?” Honestly, who cares what you’re doing right now in 140 characters or less? Seriously – get a job. Anyway, since this Twitter thing is taking over the world and it does seem to be pretty relevant in the grand scheme of social media, I opted to start a Twitter feed for JerseySmarts.com.
Honestly, I started the feed because I wanted to make sure that I have the “JerseySmarts” user name (which wasn’t a problem). Right now there are two tweets on the Twitter feed (how ridiculous of a sentence was that, by the way?). I’m going to incorporate some software into the back end of JerseySmarts.com that will allow for an automatic update of the Twitter feed each time there is a new entry on JerseySmarts.com. I think that’s the most productive use of that social media client for this website.
What do you think?
As you ponder that question and if you have Twitter, you should head over and follow JerseySmarts.com. You can use the button embedded in the right sidebar or you can click here. Enjoy!
You know, I thought I would hate Twitter too…never wanted one. But I broke down and got one about 10 days ago because I needed to teach it to somebody else for another project, and you know what, it’s actually kind of fun. Not only is it a good promotion tool, but it’s also a good way to get down passing thoughts you might have before you forget them. Sometimes you can flesh them out into entire blog posts, sometimes they can just stand on their own and help readers get to know you a bit better. Some folks there are pretty goddamn uninteresting, but you can actually get a lot out of it if you start following interesting people. Twitter definitely has its place in the world. It’s really good for getting information out quickly.
Well, I just integrated some type of weird system into the back end of this blog that allows for the Twitter feed to be automatically updated each time I post a new entry on JerseySmarts.com. This should decrease my time spent working with the Twitter account, thank goodness!
But it’s good to hear that you’re giving this Twitter stuff a positive review. I’m still not sold yet, but I admit that there seems to be something to it.
I long didn’t understand the point of Twitter. Through the last year, I finally did begin to get into it and have a better understanding now. I enjoy it because I follow radio stations, sports websites, individual sports reporters, talk show hosts, media websites, tech news websites, artists, etc. — all people I am interested in. The best example I can give is that me being a baseball fan, I really appreciated Twitter last winter during baseball’s winter meetings. By following all my favorite sports websites and individual baseball reporters, I was pretty much able to follow all the rumors and reports up to the minute.