If you hadn’t heard of Twitter before yesterday, you likely have now. Despite all the recent Twitter Hacks and Twitter Phishing Schemes going around, it’s still a pretty good community.
Note – I am concerned it could end up being like MySpace – ruined by spammers and MLM douchebags.
Anyway – as a business owner, Twitter can be a nice tool for doing a couple of things:
1)Identifying New Customers (who could evangelize your product)
2) Creating a following and a connection with your product
3) Identifying and connecting with potential partners and vendors
If you’re a small business, I still highly suggest you sign up. A friend recommended I set up searches for Overland Park and Kansas City, which basically gives me a list of people in my area to follow. Now, if I have posted useful, interesting, or entertaining tweets, it’s likely the folks I follow will follow me back – which plants the seeds for a small community of people who want to hear what I have to say about SEO and Online Marketing, (and my dog, morning coffee, and @replies to my other nerdy friends).
So, give it a shot…it’s free, easy, and quick to get up and running. If it works for you, swing back by and drop me a line and let me know!