A couple of weeks ago I rushed out of the house to bring my son to a nature class and planned to call in to the Active Rain Radio show with host Brad Andersohn. But a few minutes before the show was going to start I discovered that I had left the phone number to call in on at home.
I called a couple of Active Rain members but they did not have the number either. I was wondering what to do when all of a sudden the thought jumped into my head, " You can Twitter the question."
So I sent out a Tweet that said, "Does anyone know the phone # for AR radio show today?"
In less than a minute, Elizabeth Nieves replied to me with the phone number! Amazing fast service! A few minutes later Kathy Toth had left me a message on Plaxo with the phone number because she had read my Tweet.
You can use Twitter as a quick search engine. Whenever you have a question just post your question! It is that simple. Instead of going to a search engine and asking a question only to receive pages of results to scan through looking for your answer, you can just ask your question and answers will flow direct to you. How simple and wonderful is that!
If you want to know where a great restaurant is in a new town you are visiting, what the weather is like where you are heading to solving issues you may be having with your computer or your blog.
You can ask for instant feedback on articles you have written or business decisions you are about to make.
Expanding your network of those within your field as well as those in different fields creates opportunities for new growth and expanding your knowledge in other areas of interest to you.
I have met some really intelligent and wonderful people that have nothing to do with real estate but with whom I can relate to such as other coaches, Internet marketers, moms who homeschool and writers.
One of the people I follow is SethSimonds. He was homeschooled by his mom. He sent out a tweet about a very nice writer who is a blogger. She was having a little poetry contest and he sent out a tweet about it. I found Julie Roads through him. Her site is wonderful and I quickly made up a poem for her contest. She answered me back right away thanking me for the poem. What a wonderful way to meet new people and to develop yourself as a person more. I am now a new subscriber of Julie's blog in my Google reader. A post is coming soon on how you can use Google reader for more than just reading.
Julie just wrote an article about using Twitter for business growth. One of the comments was from Paul, @retroriver who is from Austrailia. This Aussie put a link to the Aussie Twitter group- how cool is that. Now I am following him. He made a very insightful comment. He said that right before he goes to bed at night his friend in Chicago is just waking up. He finds out through Twitter what the weather is like and when she wakes up she has a tweet from him telling her there is heavy snow and the roads are dangerous and a mess. Is this just so amazing or what!
You will find great tweets that have links to articles that are quite thought provoking and cover the entire scope of areas we all need to grow in; business, personal, spiritual, political, and economically.
As Twitter continues to grow, more people will begin to use Twitter instead of Google for their queries because the instantaneous of Twitter can be even faster than Google. If you are not on Twitter you are missing the boat! Follow me on Twitter at Twitter.com/CoachKaterina.
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I haven't used Twitter, but I've heard nothing but good things about it. Thanks for the post.