By I have an account in every available social media platform today. Even Meerkat and Periscope, which I haven’t had any idea what to do in it. I’ve been blogging for almost 8 years already. I enjoy posting a lot of stuff on Facebook and Google +, sometimes on Pinterest too. None exceeded my amazement with twitter. Why?
Platform for a new enterprise
We hacked #HealthXPh on Facebook and Google + (Hangout), but we formalized our new enterprise with twitter. To think, the series of “fortunate events” started with a reply to a tweet by @endocrine_witch. #HealthXPh’s main platform today is still twitter.
Troubleshoot your way to everything with a tweet!
One of twitter’s strength is that you can find people easily who can solve (your) problems quickly. I once tweeted about my telco’s lack of response to my complaints. Within minutes, a technical support person DM’ed me. Problem solved. I also tweeted a unfamiliar technical glitz while troubleshooting my old macpro. A Mac guru tweeted a link to the solution to me!
Amazing industry news feed you can tailor easily.
As my personal learning network, I get newsfeeds about my industry from twitter. Even those from role models that are impossible to follow in other social media platforms, I can freely follow on Twitter. In most cases, scientific articles that I missed (reading journals really take much time nowadays) but are relevant to my industry found its way on twitter!
Tremendous connection growth!
The growth of my industry connections grew tremendously with twitter. In fact I have more industry colleagues abroad than locally on twitter! And if you want to grow your network on one specific area, twitter is your social network.
Learning new skills is a tweet away.
Did I mention I learn new skills from twitter? How? Well, most links to skills or DIY sites are shared on twitter. Even the link that landed me on the awesome graphic social media platforms like Pinterest or instructables came from my twitter feed!
New opportunities?
Of course there are things that I wish twitter would lead me to, like new clients and business opportunities. That will come sooner than later I guess. Look, in one year I have opportunities opening up via twitter more than I can handle. What’s more to ask?
Oh, just a bonus. I find people on twitter more open, more helpful and more intellectual. Yup, but that’s just me.
Have you tried twitter? Who knows?! 🙂
I’m @remoaguilar on twitter. Follow me there too!
(H/T to Mark Schaefer’s The Tao of Twitter” and Guy Kawasaki’s “Art of Social Media” for the amazing ideas and tips!)
Last modified: May 29, 2015
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