Twitter, how dose it work?

[Prem Tiler]

I've just started a twitter account but can't see what the point in it is.

Can anyone shead any light on this new phonanom? Every one is banging on about tweeting this and tweeting that but I can't understand what its all about.

 

[DHTiling]

A bit like texting but more can see it...LOL..

 

[DHTiling]

Oh! and thanks for the follow,,

 

[Prem Tiler]

lol you see you were my 1st? Dose that mean you took my tweetginity?

 

[DHTiling]

Ye baby..

 

[Prem Tiler]

:/ oh dear....

 

[White Room]

:dizzy2::dizzy2: Don't do twittering

 

[Dan]

Basically, whether you're an individual or a company you can have an account and get your news out to those interested. So you try to get as many followers as you can (those are the people who see what you write) and follow those you want to listen to (and those are the messages [tweets] that you see when you log in).

As tilers you can follow us, tta, adhesive firms, and each other. And you want to tweet with those in mind, but your main reason would be to try and attract business or potential customers.

So it wouldn't work on it's own, you'd need to advertise the fact you have twitter on your website or business cards perhaps (website more so to be honest) and then should the customer you've just visited wish to dig around a bit on you, they can see what you've tweeted and perhaps get a bit of a better opinion on your knowledge or whatever.

There are loads of ways companies use it, but you have to think about either using it to find better deals or more training or anything that will improve your business and/or potential customers.

Checkout what others tweet and you'll see what's going on.

I mainly use it to cross-promote the forums and to generally get tradesmen on twitter! lol - see, I'm thinking of you! - those who get the edge now will have a bit of an advantage in the future.

 

[Prem Tiler]

I knew you wouldn't let me down boys. So I need to find as many like minded and alike business's to follow me to spread the word that I'm hear and worth checking out?

 

[Dan]

Yeah, but when you follow them they wont always follow you.

A tip to get followers is to use the search feature tag thing twitter uses.

So if you type @fred - that'll let fred know. If you type #fred, that'll let all those who search for fred find you.

So at the end of your message put #tiles #tiler or something like we do

Then you show up in searches and find people who you haven't just followed, but they have searched like you will do to find followers with interesting messages (tweets).

Welcome to 2011 :lol:

You'd better get the hang of this as 2015-2018 will be interesting.

 

[White Room]

Not my thing, don't understand it and don't even try....

Bad marketing I suppose, my loss

 

[Prem Tiler]

pmsl cheers boss.

I'll get to it. Just when I think Ive got the hang of something another media form comes around the coner

 

[Dan]

Not my thing, don't understand it and don't even try....

Bad marketing I suppose, my loss

If you're doing well and are fine with that you're totally safe not getting involved mate. Perhaps get an account just to follow your favourite manufacturers or whatever. You can get deals sometimes for replying to tweets, that sort of stuff.

 

[Prem Tiler]

Dan, do you use sub domains to get the small links to alow more real content in your tweets?