Twitter Dilemma: To Tweet or Not to Tweet? Pros, Cons, 50+ Links & Tools

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In recent weeks I faced a huge onslaught of posts about Twitter from at least 5 sources per day I read. Many people will probably assume I’m an early adopter, but I was not on Twitter, well, until now. So follow me or I will never again stumble, sphinn, mixx or link you! Now said that, I’m not sure yet if I will use it for more than testing as with the hundreds of Web services I try. Indeed I’m only an early adopter where it does make sense from the start. Now Twitter was useless as is but with growing community and market share it seems the point where it matters has arrived.
Now I’m still undecided and was was analysing pros, cons among all things twitter like tools for a while now to assess if and how I will use it if I will. As I’m a social media monster when I enter a new service to really contribute I either take it by storm or I won’t at all. This way I conquered the above mentioned social media StumbleUpon, Sphinn and Mixx.
Indeed Twitter is a lot like Mixx although it’s a different concept. Both sites do not result in significant direct traffic or other benefits you can measure easily. I wanted to share my thoughts on Twitter and help you decide whether it makes sense or not so I collected 50+ Twitter related links to answer the question: To tweet or not to tweet? Also once you decided you want to use it, you will find plenty of ideas how to use it below:

Pretty bird by Picture Taker 2.
Balanced Twitter pros and cons articles
- What is Microblogging or Tumblelogging? Pros and Cons « Lorelle on WordPress
- Influential Marketing Blog: 6 Reasons Twitter Rocks and Sucks Simultaneously At SXSW
- mathewingram.com/work | Twitter: Waste of time or social tool?
- Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Twitter for Nonprofits: Waste of Time or Potentially Useful?
- Twitter Review: Waste of Time or Extremely Valuable? | TechConsumer
- Twitter: I Twink I Twove You | Brent Csutoras

Polka - the humming bird by Cris Pierry
Reasons to use Twitter
- Twitter is My New Search Engine | The Marketing Technology Blog
- How To Make A Small Fortune With Twitter | Scoreboard Media Group
- How We Use Twitter for Journalism - ReadWriteWeb
- Hate Twitter ? Become A Media Mogul With It | BloodhoundBlog
- Think Twitter Sucks? You’re Wrong, Here’s Why.
- Held by Egyptian Authorities? Time to ‘Tweet’ - washingtonpost.com
- The Business Value of Twitter | Advice and Opinion
- Using Twitter in IT Support
- How I Use Twitter for Headline Examples | Cornwallseo.com

I look up to the little bird by monkeyc.net
Reasons not to use Twitter
- Twitter ’spam’ threat leads to paranoia « What Matters Online
- Twitter Sucks. Lightning does not. | CenterNetworks
- Twitter Is Unethical For Business Use | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing
- Why Twitter Sucks…
- Alt Text: Twitter Away Your Life With Social Networking
- Ioannus de Verani: What is Twitter? A bloody waste of time!, or one man’s dramatic divorce of the narcissystem
- Why I Stopped Using Twitter - Publishing 2.0
- Twittering Your Way to Social Media Unproductivity | Cape Cod SEO
- WinExtra » The danger of Social Media falling in on itself
- Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts « Online Journalism Blog

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Twitter tools
clients
- twhirl | a twitter client
- Snitter: a desktop Twitter client
- Tweetr 3.1, best Twitter Client for Mac / PC, send files, take pictures, runs on Adobe AIR 1.0
- Spaz: An Open-Source Twitter Client for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
- Coding4Fun : Twitterlight: A Silverlight Twitter client
- The Ultimate Twitter Client
- Twitteroo: Twitter Client for Windows » Freakitude
- Twobile: A Twitter client for Windows Mobile - Download Squad
- IPhone: Twinkle, the iPhone Twitter Client, Adds Location Features
- Twitter Client for Android (How to make XML over HTTP calls) « Show me the code!
- CrowdStatus Becomes a Twitter Client and Other Updates | CenterNetworks
scanners (Twitter search etc.)
- Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan
- Intwition : What’s Being Linked To On Twitter
- Summize Conversational Search
- Alert Thingy: A desktop app for FriendFeed.com

Bejia flor / Humming bird by Marcio Cabral de Moura
Twitter marketing how tos, tutorials and resources
- Twitter Wrote This Column For Me
- 7 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
- Twitter Secrets Revealed | Portent Interactive, Seattle, WA
- A Twitter Marketing Experiment
- how to use twitter for marketing
- How-To: Using Twitter to Build Brand Integrity - MarketingVOX
- Twitter Marketing Guide - Tips on using Twitter from the Twitterati | Online Marketing Blog
- 200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter
- SEM Twittering? - SEM 2.0 | Google Groups
- The Golden Rule of Twitter Marketing
- Twitter Marketing Do’s and Don’ts: Interview With Ma.gnolia - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
- 26 Reasons Why I Love Twitter | Social Desire
- Twitter Tweet Sheet — JasonTheodor.com
Now of course the main reason why I’ll be using Twitter is to inform you of my eating habits! No, probably to indoctrinate you with my SEO 2.0 propaganda. It does only make sense when I have enough people to preach to. So follow me now if you are really serious about the SEO 2.0 cult!
On a side note: I have been on Pownce for a while, but like with Digg, SEO hater Kevin Rose has failed to create a real community here. Basically most people who are my friends on Twitter either never show up at all or just reuse their Twitter stream there like Dosh Dosh for instance. I already was angry at him for not replying when I noticed this…
- How do you use Twitter?
- Do you use a client?
- If yes, which one?
- What are you using Twitter for?
- What do you tweet about actually?
- What are you doing?
- What is your user name?
If it makes sense I’ll follow, stumble, sphinn, mixx and link you! Did I miss some valuable links? Add them in the comments, this list will be continually updated.







