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Ask HN: How does Twitter help your company?
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#2So I found this post on a new community site, and I'm honestly curious. I hear that companies HAVE to use it, that it is a GREAT way to talk with your clients and customers. But I've tried...and I don't get it.
You guys are a pretty tech savvy bunch - how do you use Twitter?
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#3So I found this post on a new community site, and I'm honestly curious. I hear that companies HAVE to use it, that it is a GREAT way to talk with your clients and customers. But I've tried...and I don't get it. You guys are a pretty tech savvy bunch - how do you use Twitter?
"Found?" Aren't you the co-founder of this Trogger thing? I feel astroturfed.
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#4My favorite of company twitter usage is from Kogi (http://twitter.com/kogibbq) - They use it to tell people where their Korean BBQ Taco trucks are around L.A.
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#5The real-time search makes it easy to find people to lay off.
Re: Ask HN: How does Twitter help your company?
#6So I found this post on a new community site, and I'm honestly curious. I hear that companies HAVE to use it, that it is a GREAT way to talk with your clients and customers. But I've tried...and I don't get it. You guys are a pretty tech savvy bunch - how do you use Twitter?
"Found?" Aren't you the co-founder of this Trogger thing? I feel astroturfed.
Eep, I am sorry for that. Yep, I am on of the founders of the site, but not the writer of the post. I was working on the site when we made an announcement about Trogger to some of our SFbeta attendees, and "found" that post from a few days ago and saw it hadn't gotten many informative responses. Was hoping people here could help me out - since I do twitter for our sfbeta event.
Sorry to leave you with some nasty scabs there. :(
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Found?" Aren't you the co-founder of this Trogger thing? I feel astroturfed.
Eep, I am sorry for that. Yep, I am on of the founders of the site, but not the writer of the post. I was working on the site when we made an announcement about Trogger to some of our SFbeta attendees, and "found" that post from a few days ago and saw it hadn't gotten many informative responses. Was hoping people here could help me out - since I do twitter for our sfbeta event. Sorry to leave you with some nasty scab…
Why are you linking to your site with 3 comments when you can make self-referencing "Ask HN" post?
Re: Ask HN: How does Twitter help your company?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Found?" Aren't you the co-founder of this Trogger thing? I feel astroturfed.
Eep, I am sorry for that. Yep, I am on of the founders of the site, but not the writer of the post. I was working on the site when we made an announcement about Trogger to some of our SFbeta attendees, and "found" that post from a few days ago and saw it hadn't gotten many informative responses. Was hoping people here could help me out - since I do twitter for our sfbeta event. Sorry to leave you with some nasty scab…
I think what you really wanted was to get people from HN on your site as a way to get users and possibly buzz.
If all you wanted was to find out about how companies are using Twitter you could have posted an "Ask HN" asking just that question.
If you want feedback about your startup you can post an "Ask HN" about that, too, but don't go pretending that you weren't just playing for traffic.
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#9The search makes it easy to see when users are having issues with my webapp.
Of course that assumes Twitter is working itself at the time... which sometimes it's not.
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#10I work for the Austin American-Statesman news company in central Texas.
This is how our Internet Editor answered that question http://thequig.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/op-ed-how-the-states...
Here are the many twitter accounts our reporters use to distribute and collect news and information http://www.statesman.com/news/content/standing/twitter.html
The team I work for wrote a tool to aggregate/retweet tweets from our staff and "widgets" to display them on various pages of our websites. This is mostly used during major events such as SXSW, elections, or Longhorn Football games as a fast way to collect and publish news and tidbits from our staff in the field. And also, of course, to engage/serve the Twitter community with news and information.
In general Twitter is a communications tool. If your business benefits from communicating with its customers (not all do) then it can benefit from Twitter.
But, like all things, it takes effort and can be done "wrong". It, like all things, is not a silver bullet.