In this episode we discuss Twitter and how it can be used for marketing. If there’s one thing we can all agree on we all have a different way of describing Twitter. Nathan says it’s more of social network. Bill says it’s more of a social medium. Either way we both think it’s great for a number of reasons. Whether we like it for how it connects us to people or information, there’s not doubt that Twitter is a new and remarkable communication vehicle.

We also talked about the following…

• Besides answering the question, “What are you doing?” in Twitter you might want to also answer one of these five questions:
  • What did you learn?
  • What made you laugh?
  • What do you need an answer to?
  • What are you thankful for?
  • What ticks you off?
• Monitoring your Twitter following to follower ratio
• Twitter uptime verses downtime
• Nathan kicking the bucket (he didn’t, he’s fine…at least as of the time of this post)
• The Twitter blog
• Are you a Twitter Giver, Taker, Zombie, or Spammer?
• Bill called out former MTV VJ and “Podfather” Adam Curry as being a Twitter Spammer
• Twhirl as a Twitter application for your desktop
• TinyURL for shortening URLs
• Snurl (now called Snip URL) also for shortening URLs
• Twitter for marketers report from Cal Evans
• Follow Bill on Twitter
• Follow Nathan on Twitter