Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
We launched Tweetmentor earlier this year in order to help small (and large as it happens!) businesses to make the most of Twitter, gain leads from it and ultimately make money.
You can read about how I chose to market Tweetmentor to see that we didn’t do things the ‘expected’ way. 
It’s always nice to read Tweets from people enjoying Tweetmentor, and to see people recommending it to others, but even nicer are the emails I get at times.
We love hearing about weird and wonderful ways to use Twitter, so when Steven, the owner of Roostr, dropped us a line asking us to look at his site, we were on it in a second!
They say:
What is Roostr?
Roostr helps you to find or let flats. By tapping into the speed and convenience of Twitter, Roostr makes searching for a new flat or flatshare quick and easy.
When I got the email I thought “Oh no, not ANOTHER Twitter account management tool” – but as this one has a slightly amusing name – Buzzom - I’ll tell you about it.
On first glance it’s nothing new, but easy to use and has a definite use in that it amalgamates a few key features.
The blurb accompanying their email to me says:
Buzzom’s major features are listed below:
People Search and Follow them:
Find people with keywords in their Bio.
Find people who Tweet about the given keyword
My inbox was full of frantic emails today from people on the Tweetmentor course who had suddenly found that their accounts were suspended.
The Twitter status blog says:
Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts.
We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours.
So hopefully things will be back to normal soon.
But interestingly, out of the emails I received, about 60% were from poeple frantic that they would lose all of their contacts, and have to start from scratch again, as they hadn’t backed up their followers.
We love TwtPoll, a quick and easy way to run a poll / survey n Twitter – it’s easy to set up, and allows people to retweet from the poll very easily.
Occasionally I like to browse through the polls and vote on a few. I always add a comment if I vote – for one, it puts my Twitter name on the comments page, which may encourage peple to check me out, and also I think it’s polite to leave a quick comment (and it takes a few seconds!)
Some recent polls that have caught my eye:
Seems like only a week ago we had the last one…
In the spirit of my last post about Follow Friday – Stop Spamming Me With FollowFriday! – I won’t be posting any Follow Friday tweets, just pointing people to this post.
So, who do I recommend you follow, and why?
A quick interview with Trevor Wood of Redline and Network Midlands, two sites providing Internet Consultancy, Disaster Management, Data security and business networking events with ecommerce, to be expanded to include event management & corporate hospitality.
How long have you been on Twitter?
Over a year – can’t remember exactly
How many people follow you?
240
How many people do you follow?
105
What made you sign up to Twitter?
Discussions at a conference, thought I’d give it a try
How often do you ‘Tweet’?
I'm happy to use Increase Sociability.