to tweet or not to tweet?
February 24, 2014 • 23 comments • 2388 views
I didn’t want to hurt the company’s feelings, but I just have to ask this.
Is Twitter even relevant anymore?
As someone who relies heavily on social media for both business and personal use, I need to know if I should even bother tweeting anymore. I’m working on a new project and when signing up for social media platforms for the new brand, I hesitated with Twitter. I signed up to Twitter for the purpose of sharing my short thoughts (if anyone was even interested haha), but I see people doing tweet-like posts on Instagram already using quotes they repost or a very very long caption about how they feel. Visual use like photos and fashion? There’s Instagram. Educational use like sharing news or articles? There’s Facebook. Blabbing about your thoughts? There’s your blog. So what do you use Twitter for these days?
When researching international online personalities, it seems like they have over a million followers on Instagram and like 20K Twitter followers… which really shows that no one really pays attention to tweets anymore.
Do you?
I do! To me, Twitter is basically for a conversation between 2 person, in which you want other people to know too ie. not too personal. Like you share good places to eat (or ootds) etc. For a more personal conversation, there’s always Whatsapp/ DM/ PM.
Not that you can’t share/ recommend the good things in Instagram. You can. But Twitter has this retweet function that Instagram doesn’t have. Instarepost app is not as cool as RT. Get me? #apalaakumerepekni
Honestly, I rarely use twitter now. However I feel twitter is actually good for breaking news update. I go to twitter for that. I also sometimes go to twitter to find conversations relating to trends or news. It’s easier to read them on twitter, especially since some hashtags on instagrams usually have a lot of nonsense spam.
I rarely tweet anymore. Usually I just go through twitter if there’s any actual notifications for me. Most of the time it’s just instagram posts by people who link their instagram account to their twitter account 🙂
Great question…. I’m more into Instagram now, and I like that back to Twitter, so I guess I’m cheating in terms of my content. I’m on Twitter for news and if it a hahstag/issue becomes trending… apart from that, It’s just random and mostly useless conversation! 😀
Nope for me. Twitter is really useful for a young generation fangirls/boys. capslock FANGIRLS. You know how ALMOST everyday, the trending topics are mostly from kpop. Why ? because us fangirls spams on them. hehe. We tweet about the band/group that we like every minutes. It is crazier when there’s live broadcast, live concert, live award shows. Everyone will be like a news commenter. We share our happy, sad, fight moments with fangirls/boys around the world. I’ve followers and am following fangirls worldwide. Especially those that living in korea (of course). We become friends just because we are in the same fandom. So, that’s how we use twitter. We spam till we get twitjack. haha.
Please use twitter because i don’t have Instagram and i don’t like Instagram too. I just love your tweet especially about Daniel…and also i prefer to get Fashion Valet update from you via Twitter…please please continue using it…
yes we still tweet. it’s especially great if you do follow religious twitter accounts like nota usrah or dr zakir naik’s twitter and/or nouman bayinnah. and it’s nice to have that little reminder every now and then just to give yourself a bit of a smack in the face every now and then. like if you found yourself being a little sombong you just whip out your phone, get on twitter and be reminded of your purpose in life again. it’s great.
I’m an avid user of Twitter. Although I don’t tweet every second like before (yup, those were the days, and mostly the reason why I prefer Twitter than Facebook. Haha), I find myself scrolling my Twitter timeline every single day. And that is how I keep up with what’s happening, from the trends. I agree with M, that Instagram’s Instarepost is not the same as Twitter’s RT. Plus, Twitter is a place where you can find inspirational quotes within 140 characters. For longer quotes, well, there’s Instagram. So yeah, that’s my two cents 🙂
Different target market, different audience.
So in order to tackle different types of audience, I suggest u go ahead with Twitter. That 20k twitter followers over 1mil plus IG followers, could be one of your lucky customers. Twitter started the whole trending topic fiasco, and I still find it relevant until today cause you can instanly search what’s trending worldwide, in malaysia etc etc.
Goodluck Vivy, keep up the good job!
I do! I prefer Twitter to Instagram.
I used to have a twitter account & tweeted like every second especially during boring lectures or tutorial classes. Lagi best when people (most of the time my classmates who were bored as me. lols!) responded to it
but i decided to delete it about 2 years ago. i do miss it once in a while though. let’s face it, we sometimes need a place where we can rant out out thoughts & wouldn’t it be lame if we keep posting personal status on fb? macam tak ada kerja
but yep vivy, keep on tweeting!
Hi Vivy, for me I think Dayre is now the hype thing and it really gathers its own audience 🙂 Give it a try, you won’t regret it
I’m with S!
p/s: not on FB nor instagram. believe it!
I’m still active on Twitter mainly cos my aunties, uncles, parents *cringe* are on the other social media networks. Because the “elder” generation are not on Twitter, I feel safer to rant my 140-character thoughts there 🙂 Actually.. because everyone else is active on Instagram and whatnot these days, Twitter (the less hyped social network) seems to provide a comfortable space to share those pictures which I think aren’t Instagram-worthy enough haha
Agreed with S!
plus, twitter is good for breaking news. you’ll get info on what just happen around the world faster than any other social app.
Vivy just use all of them..hehhe
.but i guess fb and twitter become less interesting.someone should create something new soon
And yes give dayre a try!
i have a twitter account, but being a busy me (working), i only find time to read some tweets instead of all tweets in my timeline. they updated fast, i lost tracks. usually once i opened my twitter, there will be thousands of new tweets to be read. i enjoyed instagram more. teehee.
I used to look at tweets for updates but now seldom..more to instagram now..as there are pic n words sharing which is visually better for me hehe..except when there’s major event eg election then will back to twitter
yes to tweet!
I don’t think twitter is a good platform to sell things. People I know in twitter are definitely not there because they want to buy things.
A very avid twitter reader. I am not into updating statuses, but it is a good place to be updated in all stuffs, really. Most breaking news, gossip, financial, tech, and some fashion ( esp the fashion weeks update I followed from NYMAG, Nylon all I got from twitter and I can easily click on the link they gave for that necessary article. Instead of aimlessly looking at a website) – all I got from Twitter.
i rely on twitter for traffic updates. life/sanity saver!