It seems like only months ago that I first experienced the buzz about Twitter, a microblogging application which I had heard a lot about, but never really dedicated the time to dive into. It was at an SMX West show in 2008 where I witnessed my search engine friends, associates and one-day followers clicking about on their laptops and cell phones, commenting on the presentations and making plans for dinner that night.
To tell you the truth, I felt left out.
So, upon returning home from SMX, I decided to actively join the Twitter world, and started Twittering my daily activities, meals, thoughts and the occasional repost of a Search Engine Journal entry or some other interesting article I’ve found online.
12 months and 3,392 tweets later, I now find myself not only addicted to Twitter, but realizing the possibilities of the power behind this application.
- Twitter has become the #2 referring site (not search engine, but site) to Search Engine Journal over the past 3 months.
- It’s also the major marketing medium which has been used to build buzz for IM Spring Break, a mini-conference which we are holding outside of Miami in 2 weeks.
- I’ve connected with about 20 different people in Tampa, a city I moved to 2 years ago, who are active in SEO and have become good friends.
- Twitter has helped me connect with Dave Snyder, who kinda woke up a sleeping giant in myself.
- Twitter has resulted in 3 new advertisers on Search Engine Journal AND has resulted in one search consulting client.
- I think I’ve dislocated my thumb from Twittering on my Blackberry Curve
- I’ve been involved with a couple of trending moments, which is kinda cool
- I feel closer to some of the folks I’ve known of or worked with for years
Now every time I hear the word “Twitter” in a restaurant, on CNN, in a crowded room … my ears pop up in excitement. If anything, Twitter has broken past the online barriers and into our daily lives. And I’m looking forward to the day, maybe 10 or 15 years from now with my children, when I have the chance to read over my Tweets, and my life, because Twitter, like Facebook, has become my outlet of journaling day to day happenings, thoughts and feelings.
Thanks you Twitter, or maybe even better, Twank you! Happy 3rd Birthday :)
Loren,
I agree it’s pretty amazing. I have been on Twitter for about 9 months now and it’s so much a part of my daily life and SM presence that I can’t imagine what life would be like without it. Pretty amazing really and to think that twitter still hasn’t really gone mainstream yet. It will be really interesting to see what the future holds. Perhaps one day tweeting will be just as common as making a telephone call.
For me, Twitter , is better than MSNBC News, because it get all the highlights about the good stuff (and the bad) delivered right to me…and we get to talk about it. It’s cathartic.
It helps me with research because the hottest, newest ideas are already being posted. You get in real time how people feel about what’s going on in the world…AND on a local level.
I get all my events reminded for me…and if I cannot attend, I can be there by proxy through Tweets. I just love it.
I appreciate the communication level it brings to us from people all over the world both for fun and for keeping up with industry standards.
Happy Birthday to twitter.I just active use this twitter at the last 2 months and I have to convess that only this tools that companied my live_online beside yahoo messenger,and my hope for the nexy year I can keep see you clean,and if you have to put and advertising at my site,please give me “relevancy”better then FB ads does today
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I just love it.
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