Comments on: How to Use Twitter Without Twitter Owning You – 5 Tips http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/25/how-to-use-twitter-without-twitter-owning-you-5-tips/ Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Laura Mansfield http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/25/how-to-use-twitter-without-twitter-owning-you-5-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-51837 Laura Mansfield Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:45:34 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=1263#comment-51837 Tim - I have actually avoided Twitter as it seems like a time sucker... My husband and I read your book and changed our lifestyle and now are doing what we love... the catch is, the network guys said we both need to be tweeting so I have given in... I just started "tweeting" today and came to your post to see how to do it most effectively. Wish I had read this before sending my first tweet! I do appreciate the concept of just giving useful tips and will do this in my tweets from now on. Thanks for keeping me more sane and for guiding us in our lifestyle choices! Laura Tim -
I have actually avoided Twitter as it seems like a time sucker…

My husband and I read your book and changed our lifestyle and now are doing what we love… the catch is, the network guys said we both need to be tweeting so I have given in…

I just started “tweeting” today and came to your post to see how to do it most effectively. Wish I had read this before sending my first tweet!

I do appreciate the concept of just giving useful tips and will do this in my tweets from now on.

Thanks for keeping me more sane and for guiding us in our lifestyle choices!

Laura

]]> By: miltownkid http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/25/how-to-use-twitter-without-twitter-owning-you-5-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-50552 miltownkid Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:38:09 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=1263#comment-50552 DUDE! Last night I have the most AWESOME upgrade to Twitter come to me. Note: I think the way most people are using Twitter is stupid and uses about 7% of it's potential... Anyhow the most AWESOME addition would be to have a way, on one account, to control whether an update is broadcasted to SMS. I think the SMS option is probably the MOST useful and it seems least often used (or talked about). I have multiple Twitter accounts so I can have one exclusively for SMS. The idea was to get a group of close friends using the SMS for organized group messaging. I had it working for a SPLIT second... but it's HARD. Everyone has to be educated in proper etiquette. As soon as someone goofs off once it throws things off. Or if someone starts using their account more "internet" style (with RTs, (vias) and links) it breaks the usefulness of the real world "web 3.0" experience I'm trying to get hooked up. I was just about to try to implement things again with my group of friends (since everyone's more up to speed on Twitter now) but it hit me that if everyone could do the internet stuff AND the "web 3.0" stuff on one account that would be AWESOME! There would just need to be some setting and a switch hooked up to filter tweets that I wanted to go to EVERYONE and ones that I wanted to go to people following me via SMS. Perhaps something simple like starting a message with a "+" sign makes it go to everyone and people following via SMS (I just came up with that, I haven't thought about it much). After that modification Twitter is a POWERFUL tool (in regards to shit going on in the "real" world.) I casually keep an eye on applications like dodge-ball and 4-square, but those are designed for nerds with iPhones and leaves out the general populace. Twitter has the ability to REALLY go viral and be useful (which some may argue it has already but I wouldn't :) ). The people/persons I keep in mind when thinking about how to make things useful are the technologically illiterate folks from Mil-Town (Milwaukee). Twitter can connect people to people and the internets through regular phones, but... The system currently isn't structured to fluidly make that happen... OK. Thanks. Had to get that out of my system. I recall seeing somewhere that you were a series something investor in Twitter so I figure you could pass this insight on to the proper team/individual. :) DUDE! Last night I have the most AWESOME upgrade to Twitter come to me.

Note: I think the way most people are using Twitter is stupid and uses about 7% of it’s potential…

Anyhow the most AWESOME addition would be to have a way, on one account, to control whether an update is broadcasted to SMS. I think the SMS option is probably the MOST useful and it seems least often used (or talked about).

I have multiple Twitter accounts so I can have one exclusively for SMS. The idea was to get a group of close friends using the SMS for organized group messaging. I had it working for a SPLIT second… but it’s HARD. Everyone has to be educated in proper etiquette. As soon as someone goofs off once it throws things off. Or if someone starts using their account more “internet” style (with RTs, (vias) and links) it breaks the usefulness of the real world “web 3.0″ experience I’m trying to get hooked up.

I was just about to try to implement things again with my group of friends (since everyone’s more up to speed on Twitter now) but it hit me that if everyone could do the internet stuff AND the “web 3.0″ stuff on one account that would be AWESOME!

There would just need to be some setting and a switch hooked up to filter tweets that I wanted to go to EVERYONE and ones that I wanted to go to people following me via SMS.

Perhaps something simple like starting a message with a “+” sign makes it go to everyone and people following via SMS (I just came up with that, I haven’t thought about it much).

After that modification Twitter is a POWERFUL tool (in regards to shit going on in the “real” world.) I casually keep an eye on applications like dodge-ball and 4-square, but those are designed for nerds with iPhones and leaves out the general populace. Twitter has the ability to REALLY go viral and be useful (which some may argue it has already but I wouldn’t :) ).

The people/persons I keep in mind when thinking about how to make things useful are the technologically illiterate folks from Mil-Town (Milwaukee). Twitter can connect people to people and the internets through regular phones, but… The system currently isn’t structured to fluidly make that happen…

OK. Thanks. Had to get that out of my system. I recall seeing somewhere that you were a series something investor in Twitter so I figure you could pass this insight on to the proper team/individual. :)

]]> By: starti http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/25/how-to-use-twitter-without-twitter-owning-you-5-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-49572 starti Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:44:39 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=1263#comment-49572 Do Twitter and Blogs Really Drive music sales? Do Twitter and Blogs Really Drive music sales?

]]> By: [Name] http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/25/how-to-use-twitter-without-twitter-owning-you-5-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-47144 [Name] Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:09:40 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=1263#comment-47144 Your last paragraph packs a punch. All of this social media is fun and addictive, and it can draw our attention away from what's most important. Good reminder. Your last paragraph packs a punch. All of this social media is fun and addictive, and it can draw our attention away from what’s most important. Good reminder.

]]> By: My Twitter Two Year Anniversary http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/25/how-to-use-twitter-without-twitter-owning-you-5-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-46787 My Twitter Two Year Anniversary Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:28:19 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=1263#comment-46787 [...] you are new to this tweeterverse, you really should take the time to learn how to use it, including basic tips, third party software for your phone or desktop to finally be a part of it for more than just one [...] [...] you are new to this tweeterverse, you really should take the time to learn how to use it, including basic tips, third party software for your phone or desktop to finally be a part of it for more than just one [...]

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