Twitter is the Future of Social Networking. Read this Book!

I read a blog post about 3 months ago that was talking about how neat Twitter.com is.  I enjoy reading this guy's blog and figured I'd sign up and give Twitter a shot.  Since then I spent a couple of months playing around with it and just didn't "get it."  I wondered what everyone in the blogosphere who was "smoking."  Finally, I noticed a book while ordering from Amazon.com called Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online.  I wanted to exceed the Amazon $25 minimum to receive FREE shipping (great program, by the way), so I added this book to my order.

The book arrived earlier this week and the information inside was so exciting to me that I read it in 1.5 days.  Twitter Revolution describes all the ins and outs of Twitter, but even more importantly, it explains all the applications that have been created that work with Twitter.  I was missing the whole point because I wasn't aware of these apps (Twitter doesn't offer them on their site anywhere) and what they're being used for.  

One book and my entire thought process about social networking and the web has completely changed!  Twitter will impact my full-time career, my vending company, and my blogging future more than I can even begin to explain.  Sign up for twitter, get the book, and let it impact you as well! Stumble It!

Comments

[Roman @ FinancialJesus.com]

To be honest I think that I still don't fully understand Twitter.
For example I'm following a few top bloggers and it seems that all they do is tweet with different people - it seems very time consuming...
I wonder if they do it from twitter.com or they use some app for that?

[Roman @ FinancialJesus.com]

You should write a post about the vending business - it sounds really interesting!

While staying in the US I kept a notebook where I wrote down all potential business ideas that could be used back in Estonia - vending business was one of them - it is almost nonexistent over here!

[MWM]

@ FinancialJesus.com You really need to order the book as it made things totally clear to me. Part of what they're doing is developing a following by developing relationships just like in any business. I think you have to determine how much time you're going to dedicate each day or else it can consume you.

As far as the vending business, I'll write more in the weeks ahead. I don't know anything about you country and all, but vending is big business in many parts of the world. There are $100 million companies here in the US like Coinstar that have done it all through vending.

[Roman @ FinancialJesus.com]

The reason vending machine business is not popular in Estonia is because of our currency! Lets say you want to buy a coke in the US - you just drop 2 quarters into the machine, but here you need a paper note to buy the same thing. The largest coin we have is about the value of 10 US cents.
It seems that paper notes and vending machines don't go together to well!
Anyway, since we are in the EU we are soon going to be using the Euro which means people will have tons of coins they want to pop into those machines!

[MWM]

Once you go to the Euro, you will be set. In Europe they have a dollar coin which enables vendors to charge higher prices for things than we can here in the US because of how few quarters people typically carry around with them.

Let me know what happens and I'd be happy to get you connected as our vending business will allow me to leave the corporate world by the end of '09 making more than I do now full-time as an ad executive!