Train Thoughts

You hear a lot about Twitter these days.  Heck.  Even Oprah is on it.  But.  Twitter isn’t as easy to understand as it sounds.  This is for people that want to understand how to use Twitter without using it.  Or.  Why someone would want to use Twitter.

Twitter is the social network for people you don’t know but you want to know.  Make sense?  For example.  I can follow Oprah on Twitter.  She doesn’t know me, but I’d like to know her or at least I’m intrigued enough to follow her.  Ok.  I don’t follow Oprah, but I do follow Pete Carroll.  Go Trojans!  Oprah can broadcast out to all her followers anything she wants.  All her followers will get instant access to her broadcast.  Twitter is great for celebrities since their fans can follow them and they can tweet once in a while with less than 140 characters and keep people engaged.

Second.  Twitter is great for real time information for very precise things.  Like local and conferences.  If you want to meet people at a conference, usually a tweet with the hash tag of the event will fill your schedule up.  Or.  If there is a bad accident on 101.  Searching #101 will usually turn up some very local and relevant content.  Some local food trucks send tweets out about their location.

Third Usage case.  With twitter you can update your status acrosss platforms.  This works best with Facebook. Just install the Twitter app on Facebook and then your status will update with your latest tweet.  This way you only have to update one place.