TweetDeck is my client of choice
with it I have all the conversations streamed into their own columns


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Just be careful when it comes to "social networking". A co-worker of mine got in hot water from attending a network luncheon looking for another job, and our IT manager was there. Turns out the IT manager is part of the network luncheon committee and my co-worker had to explain why she was there. She lied, of course, but I don't think the IT manager bought it.

I use it as part of an open discussion forum and it gives me a chance to extend those who I would normally discuss things with. Admittedly I am mainly using it for education discussions nowadays (reflecting my changing role) but it has been handy to put people in touch with one another ... recently introducing Mitz to a friend

I am already used to using multiple arenas to pose questions or, more usually, to repost a question from one group to a different one (eg a Mac support mailing list to a music tech forum) so having overlapping contacts such as you have in twitter just seems so natural.

@grumbledook if people are interested.

Comptia have just started a twitter account from the UK if anyone is interested.

@comptiauk

I use twitter to check out good links for tutorials, blogs and things like that. It works out pretty good. I use Tweetdeck that seems to work pretty well. One thing I hate is companies trying to use it as a promotional tool. It just doesn't work, it's supposed to be a person to person thing. If you are going to hear from a company it has to have some meat in it (like real useful information) not just souless empty promotion crap.

I messaged Stephen Fry once last year and he replied which pleased me greatly! Can't say why but it did! My tweets tend to have a mixture of useful links and foolish dross.

Dom

And people still wonder why social engineering is growing.

All you need these days is an email account with a weak backup answer...

Whats your favorite pet name ?
Search on <insertsocialnetwork>!

Whats your favorite movie ?
Search on <insertsocialnetwork>!

Favorite football club ?
Search on <insertsocialnetwork>!

And the list goes on and on...

I totally disagree with you and think that you are soooo wrong. Companies use it to their advantage all the time. It does work and it is proven too. Just type in Business and Twitter in a google search and see some of the success stories that come up.

You may not happen to like the posts, but why for instance, does the Dell Outlet have 669,402 followers?

yeah you're right that some people may make it work. But I haven't seen or heard of many realy success stories. Almost all the news about it is media hype.

Twitter?? never heard of it. You'd never find me wasting my time on there idaly chatting to people all over the worls, following celebs like Stephen Fry, semi celebes like Jason Bradbury and Suze Perry (gadget show presenters!) Authors such as Kevin J Anderson and getting tips for wordpress. photoshop, web desgin etc. Nope never would use or, cant say i ever heard of it........




Oops!!

When I was waiting for the iPhone 3 OS update, I was Tweeting with about 200 people from all over the world, because I was using the http://search.twitter.com website with OS 3.0 as my search terms.. I love Twitter, its amazing..

On the iPhone, I use Twitterrific, same on my mac.. On my PC I use Twhirl

@line3 is me

errr yes @******twizz