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By David Gelles
September 28, 2009
Each Internet fad is followed by a wave of books seeking to explain, analyze and capitalize on the trend of the moment. Self-proclaimed experts churn out guides, surveys and instruction manuals for search, e-commerce and blogs.
So it was inevitable that Twitter, the messaging service that has exploded in popularity, would receive similar treatment.
Several books with Twitter in the title have already appeared; now comes "Twitterville" by Shel Israel. As a self-styled social media expert, Israel might look the type to write meandering assessments of the latest Web craze. In fact, this is his second book on how Web 2.0 technologies are changing business, and he is a thorough researcher and lucid writer.
There is an irony in publishing a book about a service that limits messages to no more than 140 characters. If the supposed value of Twitter is brevity, how can anyone justify a tome on the subject?
Yet "Twitterville" manages to be an engaging read, full of meaningful anecdotes and useful analysis. It makes a convincing case that Twitter's worth is not just the ability to broadcast short messages, but the continuing and transformative conversations that these tweets ignite.
In three years, Twitter has become one of the most compelling technology companies operating today. Its more than 40 million users have made it a public forum for the discussion of politics, business, celebrity gossip and idle chatter.
Indeed, it has been successful across so many industries that the company still seems to be deciding what it wants to be. It has yet to roll out moneymaking products and has been slow to innovate in recent months as its small staff works to keep the sometimes fragile site online.
The author does not shy from surveying the widely varying landscape.
"Much of the time, Twitter is just about everyday people discussing everyday things. Increasingly, it has become a highly effective tool of business communication," he writes. "People tweet to raise money for causes; to make government more responsive; to find and distribute news; to build personal or business networks; or just to kill a little time with people you enjoy."
Despite this breadth, Twitter had proved most influential in business. Companies use it to sell products. Dell has generated more than $2 million in sales through alerts posted to Twitter, while local food carts attract business by broadcasting their locations.
Twitter has also proved invaluable to companies that want to pacify riled customers, as Israel illustrates with two contrasting examples. Motrin, the pain reliever, and Pepsi both rolled out ad campaigns that offended some in their audiences, and talk of both quickly took off on Twitter.
Motrin was not monitoring mentions of its brand on the service, but Pepsi had a director of social media who picked up on the controversy, responded publicly and in a personal manner, and defused the situation caused by the Pepsi Max niche ad.
The media focus on Twitter, not to mention its chipper name, has made the phenomenon a bit annoying, and the book is, at times, no different. The author's attempt to turn "Twitterville" into a commonly accepted proper noun smacks of pretension. The author discusses the goings-on in Twitterville as if it is an exotic, unexplored society.
Twitterville is, however, quickly transforming from a quaint community into an unruly megalopolis. "As it grows it suffers from an ongoing assault of a steadily increasing flock of spammers, scammers, stalkers, phishers and plain old-fashioned flimflam artists," Israel says.
Besides hucksters and spammers, there is a more fundamental problem with Twitterville. As millions more join the party each month, the signal-to-noise ratio diminishes. Everybody and every business is setting up an account, even if they have no real plans to tweet.
Flimflam aside, Twitter remains, for now, an invaluable resource for anyone using it to find new links, stay in touch with colleagues or communicate with companies.
And among the books trying to make sense out of the way Twitter is changing business, politics and culture, "Twitterville" is the best.
There is one way, however, that "Twitterville" is fundamentally out of sync with the service: The book costs $23.95; Twitter is free.
David Gelles is a San Francisco-based reporter covering social media and e-commerce for the Financial Times of London, in which this review first appeared.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
Here is something too many people are worried about on Twitter and try to walk around on egg shells…
Many people have some kind of idea or philosophy of “don‘t promote“ on twitter or
“don‘t post links to your site and this is NOT really wise philosophy in all niches. Here’s the reason why.Remember there is a fine line between spamming and providing useful hints, tips and ideas within yourniche.
There is nothing wrong with posting a link to your website or your latest blog posts every once in a while,just state the benefit of how it will help your followers instead of
blatantly link spamming.
In short: Don‘t use Twitter to market directly, people hate that. Just be nice, give value, and traffic will become freely flowing.
An example is say you want to post something on twitter and it’s going to be because you think it’s newsworthy to your following and is niche related…
Most of the time it will be a link related to something you’re doing but think about this. What if it’s anew Youtube video you just created, a link to your new product launch development or something youfound really interesting that relates to your business?
When people subscribe to your profile to “follow“ you they should realize that beyond
work sure you spend time with your family and kids. Do you think it’s really going to be fascinating to strangers what you’re doing in your personal like every minute of the day?
Marketers that think it’s really, really bad to post a link to your blog or to some product you arereleasing or even to some product you like or even an affiliate link to some product needs to reallyrealize if people are not interested you need to get BOLD and say so what NEXT!
You should tweet what you want to tweet but don’t spam dozens of links and let your followers and subscribers figure out if they want to follow you or not. There is really not too much difference withTwitter than a blog or an email list. If your followers like what you have posted they will pay attention toyou regardless of what it’s about even if you
do send them a link.
There is really no need to be walking on egg shells using Twitter.
Using Twitter in the most basic sense to build traffic to your blog is to post updates on Twitterwhenever you make a blog post. But there‘s so much more to Twitter than that. The Twitter site has one question and one question only. What are you doing? How you answer this question iscompletely up to you.
A lot of people simply post about what they are up to. You‘ll see a lot of posts like “Just finishedeating lunch.“ or “Working on a project.” But you‘ll also see a whole lot more. If you‘re having troubleanswering the question “what are you doing” try thinking of it in
terms of “what are you interested in“ or “what has you attention.“
An example would be with the dog training niche you could say “I found a way for my dog to stop barking when I’m not home with the radio left on classical music”.
To start out with, you‘ll want to post things that are related to you personally and not your blog directly.Remember, first and foremost Twitter is a social networking utility. People have a low tolerance forblatant advertising.
Here are some ideas for non-blog post related Twitter posts…
When you do post a link to your blog, make sure to add more to your Twitter post than just the link.Explain what it’s about and tell your audience what is coming next on your
blog. This way you won‘t just be spamming your link all over the place and having people notfollow you because they are getting annoyed.
