DISQUS

Angie King · 1 year ago

Twitter has helped our company baby-step into blogging. We're getting ready to launch a new website that includes a blog. Our boss had us practice blogging with Twitter first. Everyone has an account and is encouraged to post at least 3x per day.

This approach has been really helpful to me. On Twitter I can start a seed of an idea, then when I want to write a longer blog I can look back at my posts and see what's peaked my interest lately. It's also helped cut down my fear of blogging. Putting my ideas out there, even in micro form, has helped me see that it's not such a big, bad scary thing.

I also like Twitter's ability to update my Facebook status. I can kill two birds with one stone there. It's funny, though, my non-Twitter friends think I'm on Facebook all the time. I'm not sure if that's good or bad??? My friends seem to like it, though. They feel very up-to-date on me. I guess that proves its social function.

Dave Delaney · 1 year ago

Hi Angie:
Thanks for sharing this. It's really great to see more companies using
Twitter. I like the approach of using it as an introduction to blogging.
It's funny, because it's the opposite of how many geeks feel about it. More
and more bloggers are finding themselves Tweeting more than posting to their
blogs, some of actually given up on blogging altogether.

I'm sticking with blogging, but I do love microblogging as well.

The Facebook posting is funny too, because I often have friends respond to
my status updates, not realizing that it's actually a tweet. LOL.

Don't feel too badly about being on Facebook all of the time. The average
user logs in 3-4 and spends 20 minutes on Facebook a day!

Thanks so much for your comment.
Dave