This morning when a friend of mine asked if I owned an iPod, I had to tell him no, and that I was on the verge of buying an iPhone. I asked why he wanted to know and he said he was trying to sell his iPod Nano which he recently purchased. He also owns an iPhone, he does not need both, or so he decided.
Well, knowing that I had over 5,000 tech saavy Twitter followers, I decided to let them know about the Nano. That was about 9:30 in the morning.
I just said:
my friend selling iPod nano 8gb ‘barely used’ $80 email etalledo@q.com if interested – please RT!
I had no idea whether it would work but I thought it might.
I had a couple responses, one retweet and within about an hour my friend sent me an IM saying he had a buyer! It was someone who lived closeby in Denver and was ready to buy one for his child.
My question is, how else could I have found someone who wanted a Nano if not for Twitter? How else could I have penetrated into all the office buildings where people were busily working, if not on Twitter. Since Twitter is easy to use from your cellphone, I didn’t need to go door to door or make any phone calls. Just sent a harmless tweet and made a match of buyer to seller.
Pretty picture of the Nano since this blog is really supposed to concentrate on design:
So there you have it. Twitter. It’s everywhere you want to be!
Did you notice something about all this social media all over the place? Most of it you have to give away all of your private information and confirm your identity before you can join Not only can this be annoying and time consuming, but it also is hard especially if there are a lot of steps. For those of us who can only do one thing at a time, and get lost after step 2, it might never happen.
But what about Twitter?
On Twitter, you just click ‘join the conversation’, sign up and start tweeting. Anyone can do it, whether young or old, rich or poor famous or obscure. We can all just start tweeting.
We don’t have to know how to edit video, or upload our galleries, or write essays, or do more than two things in a row (max). All we have to do is tweet. And we know that that is.
How many plugins are there? Poke? Gifts? Events? None of that. Just tweets, and we can follow people, and they can follow us. This does create natural groups of sorts, I have my own group, currently about 2700 people that I follow, and follow me. If I decide I don’t like someone, I can unfollow them. Simple and easy. If I want to add friends I add them. Quick, and start hearing what they have to say.
One thing at a time, and nothing I don’t need.
