Twitter As a Business App? Create a Plugin Panel

By on March 19, 2007 in Cool Tools with 11 Comments

One way companies can use Twitter, especially virtual companies, is to create a page or panel with each of their team’s Twitter plug-ins.

If I were on a virtual project with Gavin Heaton, Kate Trgovac, and Becky McCray, maybe we’d create a page like this, or have a sidebar on our wiki with each of these plug-ins.


follow BJMcCray at http://twitter.com

With the ability to only allow friends to follow and track, this can be kept to a private conversation.

That’s one way to use Twitter as a business application. Others?

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  • http://www.servantofchaos.com Gavin Heaton

    Interesting thought … I had not considered Twitter as a business enabler … but there you go! But now that you mention it — it strikes me as a more “human” digital collaboration tool. It can share insight, jokes or even the banalities of life … and this spectrum helps us remember that there is a living, breathing person at the other end.

  • http://www.jemmille.com Jeremy

    I think this haiku by blogger Min Jung Kim sums up twitter nicely:
    “twitter defined as
    turning bunches of geeks to
    14 year old girls.”

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    >Gavin, one of the things I miss about the cublicle world is immediate brainstorming of a “cubicle circle” a panel or page like this could be one way to use twitter. Of course, I may be just stretching to justify twitter as a business tool.
    >Jeremy, I’m sure twitter enables more than transforms:-)

  • Twitter Forum

    Ping from the Unofficial Twitter Community and Forum. We posted about your idea. (which is a great one!!)
    http://www.twitterforum.com

  • Corey Clayton

    I talked about using Twitter in our newsroom a while ago before SXSW. So far, it’s been slow going. Here’s the link to the article: http://harddrivelife.com/2007/03/12/twitterinnews/
    Hope you like it, thanks.
    Corey of HardDriveLife.com

  • http://twurls.com Tiny Url

    Very nice read. I am planning on developing a site for these twitter badges or plugs and they look to be very promising.

  • http://www.managingleadership.com/blog Jim Stroup

    I find that many of my colleagues are reluctant to make use of sites like Twitter, thinking they are only for teenagers. This is a welcome post, and a great idea. Thanks for sharing it!

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    Excellent post. Could not have said it any better myself. Hat’s off to a post well said.

  • http://onlinetrifex.com Kadin

    I have read your article, and of course Twitter at the moment is still the best way to use Twitter as a business application. But you noticed “others” and I’d like to get more information from you.

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