Comments on: Social Media: Why Twitter Matters to Marketers

By: A. H. Goodwin

A. H. Goodwin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Great post.

Found this post on Twitter, Skittles and Gen-Y. Made me think:

http://www.youthmarketing.com/blog/

By: Nadine N

Nadine N — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Great post. Twitter works for me as a professional development tool, as I communicate with others with similar interests and common professions. In addition, you also helped me understand why Twitter is unimportant to young people – at least until it can be used as a tool to make connections with “strangers” who can enrich their lives in one way or another. Good point about not answering the prompt, “what are you doing?” I skim right past those tweets and look for what is being read, talked about, and used by my peers.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:22:00 +0000

You may be interested in this article on the Millennial Generation at FLYP: Meet the Millennials.

By: gammill

gammill — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:55:00 +0000

Hey Carol, Nice post. I'm now focused on helping 'traditional marketers' leverage the social web in meaningful ways (re: more than display ads). About a month ago the founder of my new company and I went back and forth on this:

@brooksbayne: "twitter is like the bar - open and public. facebook is like the hotel - where you go after the bar."

@gammill"IF twitter is like the bar and facebook is like the hotel is LinkedIn like meeting the parents?"

Not sure what that makes MySpace...

Anyway, thought you'd get a kick out of another fun way to describe the differences.

Hope all is well on your end! I owe a ton for getting me out to California!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:38:00 +0000

Glad I was able to say something helpful in 140 characters.

BTW – I’m faculty at Guelph-Humber in Toronto, but I’m the web manager at the U of Guelph (related but separate institutions).