Twitter as a networking tool
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john_p said:
Tim, can you elaborate a bit? "Tim is looking for a web developer" or something like that?
For locating people who share common business interests or goals (you really need to use Tweetdeck or Twhirl to effectively do this) it's very useful. You can then "follow" them for a bit and see if they have anything to say of interest or if you have anything of interest to them.I have some useful marketing, publishing and photographic contacts now - all localish to me (tweetie on iPhone lets you find people tweeting who are physically near you, using the GPS).
Worth a play with IMO.
I joined a business networking site called www.millionimpossible.com, just to see what is was about, and to my surprise I got a good lead two days ago. Another site worth looking at is ukbusinessforums.co.uk. It's probably worth joining as many as you can, you never know what they can bring in.
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Geoff
Eric Mc said:
I never intended it to happen but I have found PH an excellent networking tool.
I agree! I can't imagine FB or Twitter or any of the other teenager tools would be able to rival what I (and many others) get from PH. I've had medical advice, bought a car, bought a house, and more. ... Now that I think about it, perhaps the teenager tools would at least be cheaper to run! 
tobeee said:
Eric Mc said:
I never intended it to happen but I have found PH an excellent networking tool.
I agree! I can't imagine FB or Twitter or any of the other teenager tools would be able to rival what I (and many others) get from PH. I've had medical advice, bought a car, bought a house, and more. ... Now that I think about it, perhaps the teenager tools would at least be cheaper to run! 
Twitter is imho, the best online professional networking community thats evolved in a long long while
blot said:
tobeee said:
Eric Mc said:
I never intended it to happen but I have found PH an excellent networking tool.
I agree! I can't imagine FB or Twitter or any of the other teenager tools would be able to rival what I (and many others) get from PH. I've had medical advice, bought a car, bought a house, and more. ... Now that I think about it, perhaps the teenager tools would at least be cheaper to run! Twitter is imho, the best online professional networking community thats evolved in a long long while
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I'm helping launch a very specialist social networking website in a field that I and the webmaster have no real experience. We could see the gap in the market, but had no idea where to get users from. I've just got tonnes of leads and potential new members via twitter.
Definitely useful. I can see that will be using it quite a lot in the upcoming weeks.
I'm helping launch a very specialist social networking website in a field that I and the webmaster have no real experience. We could see the gap in the market, but had no idea where to get users from. I've just got tonnes of leads and potential new members via twitter.
Definitely useful. I can see that will be using it quite a lot in the upcoming weeks.
Edited by Timsta on Monday 16th February 14:32
Timsta said:
I've installed both and I don't see much difference, apart from Twhirl being more complicated to use.
Tweekdeck is better if you prefer full-screen view and receive a lot of replies or direct messages and/or want to monitor certain keywords via search. Thwirl is more "not supposed to be on this at work" friendly. I prefer tweetdeck. Both are Adobe Air applications.
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