Smart companies use Twitter. Here’s how.
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has great piece today about Comcast using Twitter to as an early warning system. Add this to your list of ways to get business value from Twitter.
Increasingly, businesses are using Twitter and learning about their customers from it. For instance, someone from Zappo’s - they of the best customer service story ever - started following me on Twitter this past weekend (before I dropped a couple hundred bucks on shoes for me and my family). And I suspect I’ll hear from them again.
It’s become increasingly fashionable for people to claim Twitter is a waste of time or useless. But in practice it’s increasingly useful as a tool for smart business folks to learn what their customers care about. If smart companies use Twitter, why don’t you?
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April 7th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Im one of those who thinks Twitter is a useless time waster. However your article gives me some reason to think the thing may have a use. Frankly I dont CARE what Robert Scoble is doing at this second. However, if there are business uses, then I might consider it.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Eric,
Originally, I thought Twitter had little value. These days, I’m finding increasing use and utility. Give it try. I suspect you will, too.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I do think that Twitter has value for people in the web’s public eye, but monitoring and reacting to complaints on Twitter and in the blogosphere just isn’t enough.
http://blog.ryanmickle.com/index.php/2008/04/08/the-comcast-twitter-attack/
Thanks for the post.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Ryan,
Great post on the Arrington/Comcast blowup. I think you’re very right about its ability to scale. But for small businesses, such scalability may not be an issue. Getting people to talk about your business in the first place, that’s the hard bit. And Twitter is a great place to engage with those most likely to talk about it.