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Drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid

Not a week goes by when I don’t read post about Twitter. It’s a technology that’s soaked the panties of many web 2.0 aficionados - that’s probably the most succinct, crude way to put it.

I’ve been pretty hesitant to try it out, namely because I was dubious when I heard people shouting praise from all corners of the Internet. Well, they’d shout praise about the service only in between the hilarious Ruby-on-Rails scale=fail Twitter outages that would occur during any event that the Twitter community at large deemed remotely newsworthy.

However, after reading Marketing Sherpa’s recent article on Twitter as a legitimate marketing tool , I decided to give it a try - because I finally got it . I had read a number of other articles talking about how Twitter is a powerful networking tool and blah blah blah - basically a bunch of drivel pushed faux-marketers who should be flipping pizzas instead of pretending that they know anything about legitimate networking.

If you’ve ever read my blog before, you ...

Drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid

Not a week goes by when I don’t read post about Twitter. It’s a technology that’s soaked the panties of many web 2.0 aficionados - that’s probably the most succinct, crude way to put it.

I’ve been pretty hesitant to try it out, namely because I was dubious when I heard people shouting praise from all corners of the Internet. Well, they’d shout praise about the service only in between the hilarious Ruby-on-Rails scale=fail Twitter outages that would occur during any event that the Twitter community at large deemed remotely newsworthy.

However, after reading Marketing Sherpa’s recent article on Twitter as a legitimate marketing tool , I decided to give it a try - because I finally got it . I had read a number of other articles talking about how Twitter is a powerful networking tool and blah blah blah - basically a bunch of drivel pushed faux-marketers who should be flipping pizzas instead of pretending that they know anything about legitimate networking.

If you’ve ever read my blog before, you ...

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