Comments on: Favorite Twitter Uses?

By: Dave at Rings & Things

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:07:16 +0000

Just to chime in, from the other side of the conversation we had with Patricia V.: Rings & Things loves Twitter because…it’s one of the few ways available to keep in touch with our customer friends, who are located literally all over the USA and worldwide. Very few other tools make it so easy to keep up with people’s ideas, needs and requests! It was tremendous fun to quickly build on a productive idea with Patricia, and it’s such a win-win for us & our customers when things like that happen. Mind you, we’re following something like 9,000 people, so we obviously can’t track every word that’s said (and some folks primarily tweet to promote their Etsy etc. businesses)…but we always paying attention and ready to respond. Getting all this for free from Twitter is a heck of gift that we’re really grateful for!
🙂 Dave at Rings & Things

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By: Patricia C Vener

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:56:38 +0000

In reply to Athena Mantle.

I definitely need to be more proactive about finding the right people to follow and not just those who are simply also artists or in a guild that I am in or just because they followed me first.
Excellent anecdotal evidence that Twitter is not (necessarily) a waste of time!

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By: Athena Mantle

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:50:21 +0000

I just joined twitter a few weeks ago after learning about it in an art marketing workshop put on by @theArtEngine. I started following the editor of Southwest Art magazine and she posted something saying she was looking for figurative artists. I replied to her tweet with info on two friends of mine that are figurative artists and she is now featuring both of them in the January issue! On top of that I got saw a repost from a gallery looking for new artists to show and I landed myself a solo show! Not bad for a few weeks on twitter! Twitter is a powerful tool!

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By: Monette Satterfield

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:39:08 +0000

I should probably be embarrassed at how much I love Twitter 🙂
I don’t automatically follow anyone but check out their streams first to make sure it’s something I want in my life. Positive people who aren’t just tweeting links all the time and share a bit of their lives are the gold standard for me. Also, the folks in the “making social media social” group #msms are a pretty fun group.

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By: Kirsty Hall

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:25:36 +0000

Definitely the amazing conversations I have with people but I also use Twitter to keep up with local news. I also use Twitter as a testing area for product ideas.

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By: Laura Trevey

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:16:29 +0000

Love that tip about Customer Service! The “tweeting” will certainly get their attention 🙂

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By: Patricia C Vener

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:08:55 +0000

I wonder if CT has a twitter account for road work…
I did interact with the findings supplier Rings and Things when they introduced a new product for which I had an idea they never thought of. I tweeted my idea and after some communications ended up with some samples to try it out. My Bubbe Pins(TM) are the result of this.
Like Sari, I prefer to follow fewer more relevant people than everyone in sight. But I haven’t had a utility to help weed out the irrelevant ones. So thanks, Sari for the link – I’m going to give them a try!

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By: Sari Grove

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:38:41 +0000

I love meeting new people & sharing information & learning from them back…I wanted to mention that I recently purged all my 1500 or so following because it seemed that the more people I followed, the less I listened…I am starting again with a tiny group & plan to move much more slowly forward, getting to know a few Twitterers at a time, then only adding more when I know the ones I already have…I used http://www.ManageFlitter.com to sort through this mind set…(very helpful)…

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