Twitter seems like the next big thing. I always hear Twitter and Facebook. Has anyone gotten any success with it?

They have a Follow Friday every Friday. We should follow and promote one another.

This is my twitter if anyone wants to follow.
http://twitter.com/detourshirts

Tried FaceBook. Gave me zilch.
Much better luck with Squidoo and my own blog, and of course GoogleBase.

Twitter didn't seem to work for me. Most of my followers are also t-shirt designers/CP shop owners so it was like preaching to the choir.
I however have done good with Facebook and my blogs.

I get hits and sales from a few of my niche style twitter pages. I don't promote anything by tweeting I just include a link to my shop in my bio.

I have done alright with some accounts set up specifically for my stores with the understanding that I update infrequently and usually with special announcements like coupons or a new design worth tweeting about. My "teesed" twitter account ended up being my "pod friends" account so I don't often tweet about my products there.

I've only converted a few sales with Twitter. I promote sometimes, but more often than not I tweet about whatever I'm feeling. At some point I'll be more scientific about it. For now, it's an organic and fun tool also a great source for picking up bits of knowledge I wouldn't come across otherwise!

There have been articles about Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc (ad nauseum) - becoming concerned over the numbers of postings to their sites that are only 'sales' related and looking for way to block/omit/ban/??? them outright. YEAH!

Even AT&T has weighed in on this as they do not have the capacity for the way these services are being used - which was never expected. Their telephone services are being disrupted resulting in many dropped calls.

I look forward to the day these things return to their focus and get rid of ALL sales crap (SPAM in other terms) and return to only social crap so I can ignore them alltogether without punishment.

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I get pretty good attention from Twitter but I think it's because I'm very careful about how I use it. Being smacked upside the head every five seconds by blatant sales pitches annoys most people and the average, social, Twitter user doesn't purposely follow marketing accounts - at least not in the stats I've seen.

I'm the first person to make it clear that I've got more than a few reasons I'll block or unfollow someone and I do it without apology.

http://blipfish.impax-media.co...wing-you-on-twitter/

However, I think if you're being genuine about something you're interested in it can yield nice results for the "investment" (20 seconds to compose 140 characters and press enter).

I'm currently of the opinion Twitter rewards marketing more in terms of creating interest around the person... not the pitch.

For the record, I don't do Follow Friday. If I want to bring attention to someone I admire, respect, or think is interesting - I'll promote them any time of day and use my 140 characters to explain why. Follow Friday, to me, misses an opportunity by being a blanket-bomb.

I used to search twitter for keywords that match my products.. and reply to all the hits with a link to my shop... you can call it spam.. but its much more efective.. because they tweeted about it first

well that took alot of my time.. so i made a program that does it for me (i am a software programer).

you can test it for yourself :
tweet something about "chipotlaway" and wait about 30 min' and you will automaticly get a tweet from me..


i am promoting 10 of my products that way.
and also another guy who liked it.. and pays me to promote his products on twitter !!!

As others have already said, most of my followers on Twitter are other designers. In my case that's on purpose; I use it to keep in touch with them and follow news/entertainment feeds of interest to me.

I have a FaceBook page for my biz; that's used for Marketing.

Meg; make some $$ while you can; that's exactly the sort of thing many people are complaining about (see barryk's post above).

It's one thing to 'auto-follow' me if I follow you (or if I tweet something that caught your script's eye) 'cause it's not adding to my incoming messages. But if someone auto-responds to me like that (a blatantly generic tweet) I first block them and then report them.

If someone seems to be typing a live tweet that is either helpful or humourous, I consider whether to follow them. It's all about 'being real'. Twitter will fail if too many people try and make it just another 'push'.

I started twitting a couple of days ago. Never thought it as a business tool, rather as a "fan" tool.

I thought if someone likes my work, they will follow my twits and eventually be aware of new stuff I am doing or creating, and get to know me a little bit better. For me it's just a way to "keep in touch" with something or someone. You just don't forget they are there if you get a line from them every once and a while.

But if someone becomes too present, sending dozens of ad messages every day, most people would just unfollow I suppose.

I wouldn't like to use Twitter to purely "promote" my stuff.

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Meg; make some $$ while you can; that's exactly the sort of thing many people are complaining about (see barryk's post above).

It's one thing to 'auto-follow' me if I follow you (or if I tweet something that caught your script's eye) 'cause it's not adding to my incoming messages. But if someone auto-responds to me like that (a blatantly generic tweet) I first block them and then report them.

i understand what you are saying.. but a couple of notes :
1. i don't send a private message to the user.. i am changing my own private status.. with his name in the tweet..

2.i never tweet the same person twice.. on the same keyword

3. they don't see it as spam.. they actualy retweet and my link goes to all their followers i have many positive responses

4.it is very targeted.. i only search for keywords that i am sure that they will understand why i tweeted the link.

having said all that... i know that what i am doing is SPAM .. i wont lie to myself.

but they haven't closed me down yet, so ill keep doing it.


sorry about my English