When you start twittering you quickly realise that nobody's really interested in what you had for breakfast or what colour your socks are today. Facebook is a much better tool for that!
What you also realise quite quickly is that there are a huge number of twitterers constantly twittering about stuff you are actually quite interested in. The obvious one for me is my beloved City (twitter.com/search?q=manchester+city). Having found that, and started following a few of the twitterers, I then started looking on a more professional basis. http://twitter.com/search?q=seo+help lists a whole load of people offering and requesting help on search engine optimisation. Are any of them potential customers or partners for Silkmoth?
So maybe Twitter can benefit businesses!?
And now for the bad part. I've just received notification that I have three new followers, Anna, Kelly and Tammy. Lovely ladies I'm sure. Is it my good looks? My joie de vivre? Or is it just spam? It's spam - each one of those delightful dollies has a tweet telling me how they managed to get their free laptop and a link to the website where they got it from!
Footnote: I've just realised that those search links to twitter won't work unless you are logged in to Twitter - that's a bit rubbish too!
The elves are back...