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Twitterville
- 1. Twitterville by: shelisrael Presentation by: Candice Hall
- 2. “Arrested”
- 3. TWTTR
- 4. “2000 isn’t really a big number”
- 5. “Twitter has been better for business in tough times…”
- 6. Read it.. Tweet about it.
Editor's Notes
- Book Beginnings: -James Buck, a photojournalism student tweets from jail in Egypt, “Arrested.”-Within 24 hours, Buck was safely home in the United States-Israel was not friends with Buck but saw a retweetof his “Arrested” Tweet.James Buck later Tweeted, “Free”James Buck didn’t have a Twitter account very long before his trip to Egypt. His friends suggested he get one just to stay in touch while he was away. Seeing the power Buck’s Tweets had inspired Israel to write this book. “You may follow –or be followed by- just a small handful of people. Yet even if only one person follows you, through just a few degrees of separation you are connected to the growing millions of people who tweet all over the world.”Twitter’s Dramatic Moments:Dutch student in South China reports rumble of Szechuan earthquakeMedical professionals conference about surgery“Stumbling into old acquaintances”Israel was fascinated with the everyday people talking about everyday things on Twitter.Business communication changed because of Twitter
- What I learned: Add just two vowels and what do you get? A social networking site that has changed communication drastically. TWTTR took only 24 hours to reach more people than just those in the small group of the company workers.Twitter in the Business World By 2008 over 30% of the Zappos company was on Twitter and using it frequently for business purposes. Pg. 96 “Twitter allows us to both build and expose company culture internally to employees and externally to customers.” Pg. 97
- Israel follows about 2000 people on Twitter and says this isn’t a big number. < This surprised me!“Twitterville isn’t all that different from real life.” In real life, you talk to some people often and some people not so often. Israel says this is true with Twitter as well. Pg. 270“ I may see 100 people I know in one day, but it’s a special event when that happens– like a wedding or birthday.” < I thought this was a great point. When you see that someone follows you on twitter or retweets something that you tweeted, it’s special. It’s like seeing someone you know! Pg. 270 -You come to know the people you follow. Twitter has changed relationships drastically. You can “know” someone you’ve never met before with the help of Twitter!
- Israel says at the end of his book that Twitter is great for business in hard times and in great times. But what has Twitter and other social sites done to business as far as face to face communication? “Twitter is like real life” pg. 270 < is business and for that matter or society changing in ways that could be not so great?
- I would definitely recommend this book to my friends and family. I think Shel Israel does a great job at explaining Twitter’s strengths and all that Twitter has to offer. I found it to be an easy read and something that I was actually interested in learning about. I liked learning about what Twitter can do, how it can change communication and how people can use Twitter in their daily lives. I also thought it was interesting learning about Twitter being incorporated in the business world and all its many benefits. Being a non-Tweeter, I feel encouraged to go get a Twitter account after reading this book!