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Aaron is now posting on twitter:
http://twitter.com/stuccoitaliano
Read the thoughts of our resident Venetian plaster expert as they come to him, in real time.
Haven’t fallen under the spell of twitter yet? There’s a great little intro to the micro-blogging site here.
I’ve started really getting into Twitter. You know, that odd social marketing phenomenon where all the odd social marketers are talking endlessly to each other in 140 characters or less?
I have to admit I’m in an strangely good mood since I started using it. Usually I’m a bit depressed and/or anxious during the holidays - maybe because there’s no light in Seattle. I also needed something to replace my obsessive tracking of every political blog leading up to the election. So now I just quasi-obsessively check my Twitter account. Hmmm.
I don’t pretend to know a whole lot about Twitter yet. I only have 83 followers right now which makes me quite puny in the Twitter world. Some people have around 10,000 followers. Followers. Sounds cult-like. You can follow people and they might follow you back. That’s one way to become popular. This morning I checked Twitter Grader which told me my score was 76 (of 100) and I was the 99,990th most important person on Twitter. So then I went to Mr. Tweet and he(it?) showed me a bunch of other Twitterers that might be good for me to follow so I followed a few and some of them followed me back and then a little later I checked my Twitter grade and it was up to 82 and I became the 71,000th most important person. Moving on up! There’s a huge array of peripheral tools and information attached to Twitter like this I know nothing about.
Here’s a quick list of my own early take on what the seven stages of Twitter may be. I think I’m in between stage five and six.
You should try it. I can’t find too many artisan types doing wall finishes or murals or plasters that are on there yet, so I could use some company. Actually I found one excellent plaster artisan, Darrell Morrison, who I know real well up in Vancouver BC. Here’s Darrell’s Twitter page. I also am following (and being followed by) a talented woman who’s twitter “handle” is Artistagirl. She lives in Colorado and I’ve seen some of her work and her website and I know from her tweets that her son plays lacrosse. Now since I grew up in Long Island and played lacrosse at that division 3 powerhouse Connecticut College, I feel connected in a way I would not have if I just looked at her business site. So that’s one way it must work. I never could get into Facebook or MySpace, but I’m pretty sure now I will continue to use Twitter.
So, here’s my twitter page: http://twitter.com/StuccoItaliano
Check it out. Even if it doesn’t ultimately help your decorative plastering/painting business much (but I think it will somehow), perhaps it will help keep you in a better mood when the weather sucks.
