This week I've been looking into the subject of
Twitter and its possible use to market a design business.
I have to say a thank you to
Nikki Pilkington for her great post about the subject
Using Twitter for Business this post really inspired me to look into the possibilities rather than just writing it off as "a waste of time", which many have already done. If I remember this was many people's approach to
Facebook in the beginning but now it is used by many business's for advertising products and services to users.
Twitter for those who don't know (I didn't really know until last week) is a microblogging system, a social networking site. Each Twitter user is given a page where they can post 140 letters about anything they want whether that be "feeding the cat", "painting a master piece" or " designing an award winning logo". You can choose to "follow" what certain people are saying and receive updates on your mobile. Its receiving a large amount of internet buzz at the moment, so much so that the site is running slowly or crashing while they try and deal with the huge increase in users.
So can it be useful for business?
Chris Brogan thinks Twitter can be used for business and outlines 50 ideas of its possible use. So can it help market a graphic design business? I'm on a little experiment to find out, I only signed up yesterday and have been "Twittering" today, my user name is:
http://twitter.com/dot_design if you would like to follow me. Its quite refreshing already to be using something where there are very few experts or people telling you how it should be used.
Here are a few articles from other blogs with their thoughts on Twittering and its potential for business.
www.businessandblogging.com
www.nikkipilkington.com
www.design-logix.co.uk
There is also already a company working in the area of Twitter Branding and Marketing:
Cherp
So are you Twittering?
Do you use it for your business, if is so how?
Or do you think its a waste of time?