Besides getting traffic camera feeds and road conditions via twitter , I have yet to find a use for Twitter as a tool to improve or add value to a surveying service.
Anybody out there find any way to use twitter to improve your service or product ?
I thought Twitter was just for people who like to hear themselves talk?
Yes it probably is, but I see so many big companies using it to conduct their business and seemingly very succesfully, barring the bad tweets sometimes made.
I have family who are employed by companies to run and manage their online profile, by tweeting and posting on Facebook. It is their full time career now.
It is a free communication tool with very unique characteristics, there must some use for it ?
Unless you're in the entertainment industry, and possibly work for TMZ or other gossip shows, I see no benefit or real business opportunity, especially for land surveying.
Like Perry, I really believe it's for egocentric people who like to read their own words, or for megalomaniacs who believe that there's a sea of people who want to hear what they have to say, even if it's insipid drivel.
Actually, Facebook for a business/organization isn't going to be free any longer. If you dig deeper into the fine print of how they are revising their operations you will see that a typical Facebook post will not reach all of the people who have "liked" your business profile. In order to reach all of your followers you would have a fee associated with your account. If you do not subscribe to this service, you will only reach a fraction of your followers (less than 20% I believe).
More information here: Facebook Fees
Not really free, might not be paying money for it but you are being mined for information to be used to try to sell you something or to place your name on one list or another, yep, there is a price for using those services. I don't, but even this site gets mined. Would not be surprised for couriers to make a comeback and be carrying privileged information from person to person. Isn't that now being done in large city's?
jud
> Anybody out there find any way to use twitter to improve your service or product ?
Nobody answer that. I would hate for Trimble to run out and buy Twitter. :-X
I'm not a tweeter, but on a side note, dude, it looks like your total station is a little out of plumb.
I use it at my job in the government sector @LACoDevServices
Check us out. We tweet links to the subdivision maps that were filed at the County Recorder the day before.
The links are to PDF files on a Google based map that can be downloaded.
We also tweet other building, development and surveying related information.