Twitter BuzzKill
I’ve never been a fan of twitter – it’s yet another disjoint communications medium that has a different UI, a different MO, and can be a real time-waster. However, Larry on Found|Read gives us the new rules for twitter networking. The raw analysis is:
| Larry’s Rule | Translation | Networking Common Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Don’t be afraid to Tweet above your head | Talk to The Names | Only if you have something valid to contribute to the conversation. Talking for the sake of talking kills your introduction and reputation. |
| Watch your Twitter ratios | Don’t bogart the conversation | See above |
| Leverage what’s going on | Talk on topic | If there’s no topic, create one by asking |
| Move your Twitter conversation(s) off-line. | Continue your networking after the initial meeting | Only if you’ve established a connection, and have something valid to say. If you come back with something from left field, you’ll be filtered |
| Migrate your real-world conversation to Twitter. | Make people use this cool tool | Why? |
| Time your tweets | Talk about what I want to hear when I want to hear it | Ask yourself, do I really want to know this? |
| Pre-write some of your material | Be obvious about your tweet | Foot-in-mouth! Tweets – and conversations – should be spontaneous. Follow-ups can use current material of interest |
| Work the Twitter Room for product development | I’m interested in PD, so you should be too | Again, only if you have something valid to contribute |
Basically, let’s take networking and make it more convoluted by throwing twitter into the mix. But why? Why oh why do you want to do this?
All I can think of is twitter buzzkill.
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