What?!? I mean really, I knew twitter was just about everywhere…at least in my wine/social media world. You may even be sick of twitterati: Bloggers, facebook-ers, and Web 2.0-ers, all tweeting. Even my real estate agent is on twitter! But just when I think the slope is leveling off there’s Biz Stone, one of twitter’s founders making an appearance on The Colbert Report and then there’s Dell:
Dell has landed $1 million of sales using Twitter. Even though that’s a fraction of Dell’s $61 billion in annual sales, it costs almost nothing, Binhammer said. Twitter also allows Dell to promote new products and help customers with technical problems, he said. (Article Link Here)
Now that’s some serious ROI. We also saw the Wine 2.0 Tweet Stream last Thursday. You can connect your twitter stream to your facebook as well as your blog. You can also connect your 12Seconds.tv to your twitter stream (twitpicing along the way). And by the way, have you connected your Diggs to twitter (Twiggit) and do you get regular Tweetbeep notices? Mr. Tweet will recommend new people to follow based on your tweet cloud/interests. There’s another 20 applications here at TechCrunch with links and a brief description about their use, origin, etc.
So while you’re updating the best new toys for your twitterverse…don’t forget the most important aspect of participating…Tw-etiquette. Good manners. Remembering that there is always a person at the other end of the tweetdeck, i-phone, Blackberry Storm, computer, whatever.
So of course, @thebetsy said it better in fewer words…there may be understandable nuances to such guidelines on twitter. So watch the community and take @thebetsy ‘s advice. Would love to hear your thoughts, resources and input as well. The Twitter Blog will keep you current on the rest. And you can follow me @winedivergirl.
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