Comments on: Is Twitter A Time Waster Or A Powerful Business Tool?

By: abac

abac — Sat, 07 May 2011 21:11:07 +0000

I think twitter is very powerful business tools. Not much explanation until you do it yourself. TRY

By: semmy @ Make Money Online

semmy @ Make Money Online — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:03:14 +0000

Hi Yaro thank you very much for this article. I want to start twitter marketing. I find this article on your side bar.. It’s really interesting using twitter. thanks Yaro!

By: SA Music Man

SA Music Man — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:01:56 +0000

I’d say twitter started as a powerful business tool but is slowly degenerating into a bit of a time waster as more and more people flood it with useless updates and your sales pitches, etc, are drowned out by the noise of thousands of people simultaneously pouting nonsense

By: How Entrepreneurs Can Get The Most Out Of Twitter: Part Two

How Entrepreneurs Can Get The Most Out Of Twitter: Part Two — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:34:27 +0000

[...] There are other ways you can use Twitter for marketing purposes. You can check out Problogger’s Darren Rowse Twitips for some more information along with these posts about Twitter from John Chow and Yaro Starak. [...]

By: Miami Web design

Miami Web design — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:15:17 +0000

yes , I would say that if used wisely twitter is the most powerful tool on the web which can generate lot of sales for you

By: Webkinz

Webkinz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:20:40 +0000

Darren also was the person who put idea of using twitter in my mind. Now I’m struggle with spending too much time reading tweets.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:34:41 +0000

As according to a famous saying “Every coin has two faces”, same is the case with twitter. But its good face is so good that it covers the bad side of it.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:16:35 +0000

I think it can be both, if you are not expanding your social circle then its time waste otherwise it’s a great tool

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:04:19 +0000

I’m still confused – OK so I am new to IM etc and so are most of my friends so would I be right in saying that Twitter is only worth using if your in the blogging/Internet Marketing arena – sorry for my ignorance

By: Mr. School Fundraising Ideas

Mr. School Fundraising Ideas — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:41:43 +0000

I had recently joined Twitter myself (I also follow Yaro) but I haven’t really explored all the aspects that twitter can do. To be honest I’m not totally hooked on it yet. It seems feel like facebook for SEO and internet business and not a true social network. I don’t know maybe after I play around with it some more I can find out what all the hype is about it.

By: MS SharePoint Development India

MS SharePoint Development India — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:51:09 +0000

It depends on each and every person that twitter is a time waste or powerful business tool.. Some can spend hours on it by doing nothing. And some will use that as a very powerful tool for business withing no time..
So its about individual perception.
Nice article.. Yaro..

By: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:03:35 +0000

Twitter is one of the coolest social media applications. Using twitter has helped us increase site visitors dramatically. As with all social media, honesty and transparency are important but as a lead generating device, Twitter rocks.

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:40:49 +0000

Of coz you can build followers easily as compared to rss subscribers and that is probably because twitter is more interesting in comparison and easy for most people to comprehend.

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:04:01 +0000

I guess Twitter is a really good marketing and communication. I doubt its a waste of time if you do your planning properly. Doesn’t harm to make more friends and be sociable right?

By: MacDaddy

MacDaddy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:18:45 +0000

You know, no matter how hard I try I just cannot get into Twitter. I have an account that i should really use, I even have a few followers (god knows how they found me) but I just can’t bring myself to comment!

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:33:13 +0000

For a while I thought that Twitter was a total waste of time until recently when we had huge bushfires in Australia. Twitter was the only place where absolutely up to date information was available due other people also needing to know more about the fires. Well done Twitter!

By: Thewirds

Thewirds — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:50:49 +0000

Yes i agree with the opinion that say its more like Email List Building, true, if you have had many follower you can push them to re-tweet the message that you just tweet and it will soon become popular and viola you have new follower. Its a powerful tools for marketing i agree. But i personally never use twitter for that purpose, only to send my follower a notice about my upcoming post and thats it.

By: The Geek Entrepreneur

The Geek Entrepreneur — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:19:36 +0000

Granted, but ask most people who use the web on a regular basis what RSS is – I can almost guarantee you most don’t know. But with so much being made of Twitter in the media and TV- added to the simplicity of it for a casual user- I just see the day when Twitter will overtake RSS in popularity. Not saying RSS will disappear but speaking for myself, I find myself following more people and sites via Twitter than subscribing to their feed.

Wesley

By: Matt McGuire

Matt McGuire — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:52:43 +0000

I don’t see twitter taking the place of RSS any time soon, okay really never. RSS is a protocol not controlled by a single company. People will not put all of their faith in a single product by a single company.

By: dfcraniac

dfcraniac — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:44:23 +0000

Even after trying a number of times to use Twitter, I still just don’t get it. This article clarifies a lot and inspires me to have yet another look at it.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:33:21 +0000

I agree on using twitter in moderation . It can be very addictive at time.
I have made many interesting connections via twitter and its true it grows faster then my RSS count.

By: beachcomber

beachcomber — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:13:09 +0000

I have quite a “following” on Twitter but I really have no idea what it’s supposed to do.

I have the usual silly icon on my blogs, people click on it, I follow the link in the email I receive and click on ‘follow’ and, as far as I can see, that’s the end of it all.

I never hear from them again or them from me.

I never actually go to the Twitter site, not even to my own account and certainly not to anyone else’.

Does anyone know if Twitter DOES anything or even if it’s supposed to do anything???

As for traffic and sales. I think that’s another marketers’ joke.

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:58:59 +0000

I got introduced to twitter through someone I met at a conference. I like twitter and while it can be a waste of time if not used correctly, I find it a great tools to network across state lines. I’ve gained helpful feedback from my peers in the same industry as me. I have not made money from it yet but as a huge resource bank of professionals is priceless to answer questions I may have as in indie real estate broker.

By: Mrs_Orange

Mrs_Orange — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:16:26 +0000

Hi, I’m new to all this but so far I love it. Your article is awesome with lots of valuable information. I am forwarding it to friends in the hopes that they will not feel intimidated and sign up on twitter. Thanks!

By: Ryan | Lifegawker

Ryan | Lifegawker — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:01:35 +0000

I agree, it is very easy to build a Twitter following. The first thing I would say is not to protect your profile. So many of my friends have started Twitter accounts and protected their profile. This is an instant turn off for most would be followers. Otherwise, get out there get involved and start following people. In turn you will have masses of followers in short order. My Twitter profile (@RyanViers) is about 1.5 months old and I am at 500 followers right now.

As far as Twitter being a time waster, YES IT CAN BE! But, only if you let be a time waster. I get great value out of my Twitter community and that online community has produced great “real life” friends and relationships. Just like anything else, Twitter is a great tool when used with that as the intent.

By: The Geek Entrepreneur

The Geek Entrepreneur — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:30:53 +0000

One thing which I foresee happening with the growing use of Twitter is the decline of RSS.

I find myself more apt to follow someone’s Twitter (that sounds… dirty) than to subscribe to their RSS feed. Most bloggers who use Twitter typically send out a Tweet about a new blog post.

If this is the case, than what is the advantage or use of subscribing to their RSS feed?

Just a thought.

Wesley
The Geek Entrepreneur
Follow me on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/GeekEntrepreneu

By: Reyn Aria

Reyn Aria — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:23:27 +0000

I just checked out TwitClicks and it’s awesome. While I rarely entice people to purchase something via Twitter, it can certainly helps to know how responsive my followers is.

By: Mark McClure

Mark McClure — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:23:35 +0000

Yaro – don’t your tweets to US / Europe-based folks get lost in the timeline because of time zone differences?

And I recall Paul Corrigan saying if you don’t reply to a tweet within 5 minutes, forget it. (This is not email)

By: Acer Aspire Guy

Acer Aspire Guy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:32:01 +0000

I too have only recently started using Twitter. So far I’ve found it interesting, if little else. After reading this I do have a few more ideas about it’s potential.

By: Dee Langdon - BloggerNewbie

Dee Langdon - BloggerNewbie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:14:17 +0000

So Yaro, why the large discrepancy between followers and following??