Twitter is a bird of many colors. I’ve seen it used in many creative ways:
- Job vacancies are posted that I doubt ever hit traditional boards
- requests for sightseeing & restaurant recommendations
- tweet-ups (people meet at a certain place when attending an event)
Recently I had won an iPhone. AT&T doesn’t offer service in my area so I blogged about it & posted a link on Twitter. My readers came up with a number of ideas & offered empathy. It seems that the iTouch better suited my needs . I really didn’t want to test AT&T to see if they would notice an out of range account & disconnect me.
I called Apple & they were willing to return it, but the credit would go to the original purchaser which was the Wetpaint Wiki company. Then they would have had to order a new one & it just seemed like an unfair hassle for them. Apple had free shipping on Friday, so I posted my Twitter ad.
need an iPhone? at $299? I won one, I can’t get service & an iTouch is better – Apple has free shipping today… DM me if you’re interested
In 5 minutes I had 2 responses. In an hour the third one came in that actually purchased it. We used Paypal to transfer the funds. Ebay has taught me how easy Paypal is to use.
My iPhone has a home where it can be used for more than a paperweight! YAY! And my iTouch will be delivered by Friday. (I won’t be home so it’ll be a week before I can play with my new toy.). My sister-in-law is taking delivery.
What creative ways do you see Twitter being used?
Just yesterday on Twitter:
1. I watched a two hour movie online that Jeremiah tweeted about.
2. I don’t watch the “ball games”, but it was interesting to see other people tweet about the game in realtime as if though they were all in the same living room.
Connie,
I primarily use Tweeter to learn who is posting what on their blogs. It saves me a lot of time as by sharing the headline and a short link, I can visit a blog easily, knowing something is there that I want to read.