After reading a few direct messages from Twitter users whom of course, I don’t know, I have recently noticed something. They are usually after one thing. They are looking for customers or driving Twitter traffic to their websites. The Twitter pond is teaming with hungry fish and they all want you as their next customer or sign up or visitor to their web site.
I am beginning to understand what the excitement is about Twitter as far as business is concerned. Everyone is out there selling their wares. The problem I am seeing is that there are a lot of sellers and not enough buyers. What if someone opened a flea market and all that came were sellers? That’s what it looks like on Twitter. I’m no different. I have my websites and I have my products and yet on Twitter I somehow feel lost and unheard amidst a roar of Twitter chatter.
So what will happen? I suppose Twitter will evolve, but I don’t think it will be going away any time soon. Maybe the sellers will end up striking deals with other sellers and forming alliances in their effort to attract new fish to their part of the Twitter pond. The frenzy to sell products and promote websites is at such a pitch on Twitter at this time that I feel like a tiny voice amidst the roar of the mighty Twitter chatter waves.
But I did find another use for Twitter that makes up for my dilemma, and for now, that is what I am using it for. By placing a script on my website I can update it easily with Twitter posts with bits of news and relevant information or comments anytime, from anywhere, even using my cell phone. It is a script that posts my tweets to the front page of my website as soon as I post something on Twitter. I can see great possibilities for an episode of Law and Order where a person is kidnapped and the kidnapper posts their ransome demands on the front page of some website from a cell phone.
I am also learning how to condense an entire article from my local newspaper into 140 characters. If you are from my small town and you read my Twitter posts on my town website at springfieldcolorado.com you can save a lot of time as I have condensed our entire local weekly newspaper into tweets. As the detective the old series “Dragnet” used to say, ” Just the facts mam!”
So the thought in my mind at present is that if it were not for that handy little twitter tool, I would probably get out of the hungry twitter pond of sellers or twitter twits who post about how they are bored or that they had a subway sandwich yesterday on third avenue.
Filed under: Internet Marketing, Twitter Traffickers
