The Top 5 Ways Smart Cats Are Using Twitter

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  Originally uploaded by Luke Dorny (luxuryluke).

I've got a new post over at 901am.com about how to use Twitter intelligently.

Yup, it's a great service, but it's all too easy to get in with the wrong crowd and to completely miss the wonderful potential of this global communication tool. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?

You can grab the dirt here:

The Top 5 Ways Smart People Are Using Twitter

Actually the original post was called "The top 9 ways smart people are using Twitter", but that post got away from me and ended up being over 2,000 words long.

If only TypePad had a character limit like Twitter!

So, I scaled it back to the top 5 things, and I'll share the other 4 with you another time.

In this post I talk about the following things:

• How the folks in the Marketing sector of the blogosphere are using the tool
• How some bloggers are now microblogging news stuff (and are basically doing my research for me)
• How business relationships are being forged on Twitter
• Breaking news and getting scoops on Twitter
• And how Twitter can actually help you de-clutter your life

The bottom line is that, like email, blackberries, cell phones and everything else in life, you have to use Twitter mindfully to get the maximum positive impact from it.

I was extremely skeptical of Twitter, but I wanted to give it a shot to see what the hubbub was about, and now I'm happily chugging the Twitter Kool-aid with everyone else.

Comments

[Gavin Heaton]

I see you have caught the Twitterbug ;)

In an interesting experiment this afternoon, Robert Scoble Twittered his mobile/cell number and asked for people to call him. From virtual conversation to real conversation in one SMS.

Drew McLellan also has a good take on it ... it is a much more "human" technology -- it has a serious side as well as a fun and silly side. It puts some life into the clinical world of "digital collaboration".

[Sharon Sarmiento]

Yep, I've caught the bug :-).

That is so cool about Scoble--and yes, it IS more human than most forms of tech. I think this is why people are getting so hyped up about it.

Technology has the power to connect us, but with Twitter, with the unguardedness of some of the info being convey, you really get an insight into someone's mind.

Having friends who use Twitter is like suddenly being able to read minds. It has the potential to have excellent insight into someone's state of mind.

The only tricky part with that is that we have to be choosy about whose minds we can read or else it can get overwhelming! I've been careful to only chosen folks as "friends" who I really care about what they think. This helps avoid the feeling of the randomness that non-twitter users find so annoying.

[Luke Dorny (luxuryluke)]

Thanks for the attribution!