Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
We’ve got big plans for 2011, and we want YOU to be a part of it!
We’re looking for regular contributors to this blog, after some great guest posts have gone down really well.
Questions?
How many blogs a month will you want from me?
As many as you like, but a minimum of one per month
How many words?
400+ words – not as difficult as it sounds 
What can I write about?
Image via CrunchBase
Well, according to a report from The Pew Center:
You can read more about this in Mashable’s coverage of the report.
I (Nikki) have to say that I use Twitter for all of the above activities – how about you?
A few days ago a hashtag caught my eye #myparentssaidthat and the responses were the exact same things my parents said!
Take a look at the image, I bet your parents said some of those things too. I was amazed that our parents often said similar things to their children.
As the hashtag was in it’s early stages, I tracked down the originator and asked them about it.
Meet Marc Lawn @BusinessGP
Those immortal words were uttered by David Prescott, son of John, in response to his dad retweeting a suggestion to click a link, find a Conservative party Google Pay Per Click ad and then click it to remove "50p from the Tories' war chest".
Obviously JP has a fair idea of how social media works and by doing so he was helping empty the Tories coffers. His son down playing it and saying it was "only" a retweet was trying to throw the less social media savvy off the scent, and they were probably reading a report about it in their newspaper. Their audience had no idea the power of a retweet to nearly 18,000 people. Their audience was traditional media readers and they were belittling a tweet. If it means that little, why have a presence at all Mr Prescott?
I’ve been asked this quite a lot recently, and as I have nothing to hide, I thought I’d blog about it 
Recently we’ve added a lot of posts asking for lists of people – copywriters, PR companies, recruiters, Marketing people – and we plan to add a lot more.
And lots of you have emailed me saying “Why are you doing this?” – some of you even think I have some evil master plan
A guest post from Viorel Spinu, co-founder of Sety (Java custom development company)
I would like to introduce to you a new Twitter related story that happened this Friday in Bucharest, Romania.
Friday, the 18th of September 2009, the first auto-tweet has been sent from a helium balloon during the local WebStock IT NewMedia conference.
The concept
As an example of unusual Twitter application, we have custom programmed an IPhone to automatically tweet a photo of the room every minute. Next, we have attached the IPhone to a helium filled balloon and let it fly during the WebStock conference (a local Bucharest IT conference), having so created “the highest twitter client ever”.
I’ve been a fan of Killer Startups for a while – the premise is that they add 15+ startup sites a day and allow users to vote on them. Unfortunately not as many people as could be are voting, and it seems that there are lots of (ahem) Killer Startups missing out on publicity, so if you could take the time to pop over and have a nose around, I’m sure it would be appreciated!
As this is a blog about Twitter, I’m only going to feature recent Twitter related posts on there, but there are others that are well worth a look too!
We’re looking to run another series of interviews with people who are using Twitter for Business purposes. It’s very simple, all you have to do is answer a few questions, in as much detail as you like.
Obviously, the more details you give us, the more likely we are to publish your interview first, but we’re not turning anyone away.
Simply copy and paste the questions below into an email and send to nikki@nikkipilkington.com, then follow Nikki on Twitter to be alerted when your interview is published!
How long have you been on Twitter?
photo credit: helloyiying
In the last few days I’ve spoken to quite a few journalists about the fact that it IS possible to get business and leads from twitter.
I’ve argued with a couple of people who think that the only people who are making money from it are people offering Twitter training courses or Twitter consultancy.
And do you know what? It gets really frustrating. NOT because I’m trying to promote a Twitter training course. Not because I’m trying to sell them anything in fact (the course is no good if you’ve not already had some experience with twitter). But because I KNOW it works if done properly. And I’m pretty damned sure it will work for everyone.
I'm happy to use Increase Sociability.