Forget the corporate uses, why aren’t more celebs on Twitter? Perfect way to strengthen/increase your fanbase and a fab forum for “personalised dialogue minus stalking” surely?
Looking forward to following Stephen Fry as I am a huge fan. Hope he doesn’t get too overwhelmed with the service although judging by the number of followers he has, it is going to be tough not to.
I stumbled across the latest site to be obsessed with this weekend via a number of Twitter feeds….blip.fm.
At first I just groaned, seriously questioning whether I have time for anything else digital but over the course of yesterday, I blipped a few tracks and started following a few familiar faces and it is definitely growing on me.
So what is it? In short, it is like the secret love-child of Twitter and Last.fm…
A music sharing site where you post short messages (like tweets…but called blips) with a track attached. The timeline builds up a story accompanied by music documenting your friends’ day. You play the timeline and have music on all day selected by your friends.
You can upload your tunes and give people cred (called props) based on what you think to their tunes.
You can also link it last fm but I don’t know how so check their FAQ for that.
Oh and you can send your blips to other soc networks like Twitter etc too…which frankly I find annoying but hey, just my opinion!
Anyway, blip me here and decide what you think.
If ever there was a network for reaping what you sow, Twitter seems to be it. In just the last month, I have had several great opportunities (spanning recruitment, new business and a couple of great job briefs that I obviously passed onto friends 😉 ) all through contacts I have made solely through the platform as a result of being interested, listening and being involved.
Articulating the benefits of twitter is not always easy as I found when trying to convince an old PR friend of mine this afternoon but my top three would have to be:
1) Community (the banter and craic is really important to me as someone who works remotely a lot)
2) Knowledge (am loving the interaction and stuff I am learning from peers and journos alike)
3) Karma (what’s not to love?)
Putting the time in to respond to people’s tweets, listening, helping with requests and genuinely being nice seems to really pay off in the social networking world. Not so different to real life after all…
Thanks to Wadds for drawing attention to this post by SageCircle: a really useful list of analysts on Twitter….some I follow but many I don’t but will be checking out in future.
I am sure it is only a matter of time before someone does publish a list of journalists too as Wadds discusses and if/when that happens, I just hope (PR) people have the intelligence and the nous not to abuse the data.
As a PR person, the better I know someone, be it journalist, analyst, blogger or whoever, the more accurate/relevant I can be when approaching them with a story or meeting invitation etc and the less time of theirs (and mine) I will waste.
Abusing people’s Twitterfeeds with worthless pitches or inaccurately targeted comments is about as sensible a move as phoning Charles Arthur to see if he got your press release… I really value being able to follow journalists/analysts on Twitter and I’d hate to see the current conversation format ruined.
Just looked at my tag cloud and it seems these are the three most common words in my posts. *makes note to self* I must try to write on more high brow topics…
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