Love facebook? Do you Tweet? If you don't, please read this article in Don't Panic.
Facebook is fine but how many bank/credit cards do you have? How many pairs of shoes. Hopefully more than one and if you don't, you are probably intending to have a second as soon as you can afford them? It makes sense to have a spare doesn't it?
Well it makes sense for us to have a spare social networking link. Again, an old wives tale has an origin of sense: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Yes, Facebook is great but in many ways, Tweeting is greater. The new wives tale is "Facebook is for the people you were at school with and Twitter is for the people you wish you'd been at school with."
There is some level of truth to that at the moment and Facebook is charging up behind Twitter to have a similar connection but right now Twitter has the lead. You have a level of communication with people you would love to meet and it's also a good networking site.
This month I've been able to link up an artist in Wales with a developer in Holland and someone who had spare back-drop fabic with a designer who needed some. They live in the same town but their paths may never have crossed.
The frustration being that they didn't all Tweet so I was the go-between.
So many creatives do not Tweet yet. They have enough to do without PRing themselves and they are not always as handy with a computer as their own tools.
I'm running quick workshops which help the interested, but overwhelmed, to get a basic presence on Twitter. If you Tweet please take a Twitter nervous creative to their laptop for half an hour, and do the same.
It's a little confusing to the non-computer savvy but it's worth it. And for as long as Facebook doesn't own Twitter. It makes independent sense.
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