Comments on: Why Twitter Sucks For Marketing

By: Tom Guard

Tom Guard — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:47:30 +0000

I love Twitter. I use it for marketing but I also use other sites like Utterli. Utterli is just like Twitter except you get way more functions.

But I still cannot believe that Twitter just went down in the middle of the day like it did. That is almost as bad as Google or Yahoo going down.

I get all my movie reviews from Twitter, just by doing a Twitter search.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:27:01 +0000

Twitter is FREE. Therefore you get what you pay for. You are at its mercy. But this is the same for Facebook as well for Google. I’m sure if a subscription based appraoch would necessarily be an improvement.

Twitter is a platform and all Twitter users are piggy-backing onto its platform. Anyone can get kicked off this platform at any given time.

The long term solution is to build your own platform and to own that platform. If its a great platform you can open it up and allow other people to use it.

By: Johnny Optimist

Johnny Optimist — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:53:06 +0000

Use of External tools, companies, etc. must have been in the water lately because I wrote a post about it this morning, and then editted it to include a link to Seth’s blog.

I agree with you, diversifing efforts is going to build a stronger base in the long-term.

@MLDina – I agree. I usually quit following those that have 60 post an hour and overwhelm the feed w/ marketing products. Started doing that last week and quit following the guys that used to be 1/2 my feed at any given time of day. Now I don’t follow folks w/ those types of tweets.

By: KushMoney

KushMoney — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:41:08 +0000

If twitter was gone, I would get around 300 visits less per month. It wouldn’t make a impact on my blog.

By: Steven-Sanders

Steven-Sanders — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:19 +0000

Absolutely not!

By: MLDina

MLDina — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:01:57 +0000

If Twitter was gone tomorrow, I’d have some less fun with social networks, but I’d still be just as efficient. It’s a GREAT way to interact with your customers and readers, and even useful to market, but it’s another trendy social tool.

I wish Twitter would get rid of the accounts that strictly market though. That drives me nuts! I don’t want to see product pushes all day in my stream, do you?