Agree that using Twitter to ‘push’ my blog isn’t a good idea, although I’m always happy when I get inbound traffic from other people’s tweets!

Twitter is a good way of sharing ‘interesting links’ though — I’ve never before thought people might be interested in what I’m reading elsewhere — for example I’d love to be able to tell more people about this cool event http://lewissocialmediasummit.eventbrite.com/ I’m going to next month about social media and politics… but I don’t want to write a blog post about it.

What interests me, though, is how we’ve only really been thinking about what I could tweet out, rather than how my business could benefit if I was reading other people’s tweets. It seems to me as if twitter is still very much regarded by the marketing community (myself included) as a ‘push’ mechanism for getting the word out there, rather than an information gathering mechanism, which is partly why I’ve avoided it… it seems like a lot of people on twitter are keen for you to listen to what they’re tweeting, rather than the other way round. I’d love to know more about how I could grow and learn by following other people — and if so, who?

However, I would love to see how you use and leverage your skills to persuade us in 140 letters! That´s a challenge!

You can send links with your personal thoughts and quick tips….

Regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

There are many people, companies using Twitter successfully for dialogues or monologues. They succeed because they consistently devote time and labour on Twitter.

For individuals, freelancers, it is a personal choice as to whether Twitter is what they want to use or not. Just being on Twitter to promote one’s blog seems unnecessary. We already have RSS (and Facebook if you wish) for that.