Do you twitter more to market yourself or for fun?

Sometimes I wonder if I would be using Twitter if I didn't have a blog. I enjoy it and do get into some fun conversations, especially during "events", I use it mainly for marketing purposes. I just reviewed a great book on Twitter called Twitter Power http://connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com/2009/03/twitter-power-book... which gives great insight into using twitter for marketing. However, sometimes I think I should stop making everything about marketing and forget I have a blog once in a while.

How do you use twitter?

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Permalink Reply by overallbeauty ~ Kim Snyder on March 23, 2009 at 7:21am: I have fun with Twitter, I do both. I twitter about tips, ideas and even take the time to thank others who have done reviews for me.
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Did you know you can twitter from your phone? I have done that, been somewhere bored out of my mind and I will twitter about it! I think it really needs to be a bit of both. If you do marketing only, you will lose followers if you twitter about yourself it makes you look more real. People connect better with those they feel are just like them. Which in turns helps with your marketing.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jackie Powell on March 23, 2009 at 8:25am: 95% of my Twitter use is for fun.; ▶ Reply to This

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and by the way I twitter for FUN too .................................; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lorna Darden on March 23, 2009 at 11:59am: I agree, Sometimes I get so caught up into trying to market my blog that I forget that having trustworthy relationships will get you the prospects you need. I use it to meet new people and for my blog; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eren on March 23, 2009 at 12:03pm: Both!

Im still feeling my way around, but I think that is the beauty of twitter. Its so flexible.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marlene M. Linke on March 23, 2009 at 12:54pm: Sounds like I hit a nerve. There's a difference between being social and engaging versus being chronically self-promoting.... I'm just sayin'

Jennifer said:
The funny thing is, Dr. Drew is quite the twitterer himself :-p Which is totally fine... but, I kind of hate it when people call other people narcissists, just because they blog this, or twitter that about their lives. It kind of reminds me of the old couple who calls up the cable company to complain about the porn channel saying, "We watched it for 6 hours and it was disgusting!" :-p If you're not interested in someone, don't follow them... but, I just don't see any harm in putting yourself out there, sharing your life, and possibly meeting other people with similar interests. Sure, I talk a lot about myself and what's going on in my life, in the hopes of interesting other people in my life.... but I also go around to other people's blogs and twitters and facebooks, etc. commenting on things they've written about their lives. I don't consider that being narcissistic... I consider that being social...

Just my two cents :-p

Marlene M. Linke said:
Having only been on twitter and TwitterMoms a short while, I notice there seems to be a pervasive undercurrent of an almost pop culture type ideology. By far and large, the number of people I see on twitter are always communicating, buy this!, read this!, share this!, watch me!, see me!, listen to me! Everyone is shouting their tweets as loud as they can in attempts to gain exposure for themselves and the resulting notoriety of having a flock of followers; a race as to who has more. One of the worst is PDiddy. He is one of the most narcissistic megalomaniacs I've ever witnessed. He posts on average every 4 minutes routing his readers to everything he views on You Tube, all of the live action recordings of his album development process and asking his readers to vote for him as Twitter King. He also has a nauseating habit of providing blow by blow (pardon the pun) details of his lovemaking (TMI!). It is becoming a narcissistic phenomenon that everyone feels that the whole world wants to know their every move; as if their lives are the embodiment of an epic novel. Dr. Drew Pinsky has just written a book on the current state of our narcissistic culture and the delusional behavior it's cultivating. I totally understand if you read this and think that I've offered a much longer answer than you were expecting. You're welcome to view this post as equally guilty of pontification! I guess I'm also being swept away by the societal tide!

By the way, here's an article from Digg on the 14 types of Twitter Personalities
http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalit...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jenifer Schabes on March 23, 2009 at 1:17pm: I think twitter is interesting and I learned early on that really the underlying concept (for business at least) is create a relationship, in turn, your business will flourish. I think today, people want to know their is a human behind the business. If you use it correctly, twitter can help you convey that. Then there are the others that just post about their biz and nothing more. They don't get it. If you got to know someone, friendly conversation every once in awhile, wouldn't you be more likely to buy from them than if you knew nothing of them but all of their tweets were about their business? It's a longer process but I think worth it in the long run. Twitter: TruPink Still learning!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Amy on March 23, 2009 at 5:15pm: I do both talk and promote my shop: www.CustomKids.etsy.com
You can follow me at:
www.twitter.com/CustomKids; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marlene M. Linke on March 23, 2009 at 5:32pm: WONDERFULLY PUT!!! Exactly! I am going to go to your twitter ID!

Jenifer Schabes said:
I think twitter is interesting and I learned early on that really the underlying concept (for business at least) is create a relationship, in turn, your business will flourish. I think today, people want to know their is a human behind the business. If you use it correctly, twitter can help you convey that. Then there are the others that just post about their biz and nothing more. They don't get it. If you got to know someone, friendly conversation every once in awhile, wouldn't you be more likely to buy from them than if you knew nothing of them but all of their tweets were about their business? It's a longer process but I think worth it in the long run. Twitter: TruPink Still learning!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dirty LAWndry on March 23, 2009 at 8:26pm: I'm a newbie at Twitter. I started with just sending tweets to friends and then I started using it for business. Either way, I meet a lot of cool and interesting people and found a couple of sites (like this one) that I would have never known about had it not been for Twitter.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marlene M. Linke on March 24, 2009 at 4:50am: TOO FUNNY!!!! YOU TUBE VIDEO THE TROUBLE WITH TWITTER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w&feature=featured; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marlene M. Linke on March 24, 2009 at 12:48pm: A great article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-drew-pinsky/narcissism-and-the-eco...; ▶ Reply to This

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