Twitter- practical uses for Graphic Designers
Ever since signing up for Twitter a few months ago, its practicality has been growing on me. More than just a way to get fed endless streams of endless news, I have found it to be a rather useful community!
Case in point- yesterday’s fiasco.
A client of mine had trouble with her site. She couldn’t get it to appear in her browser, even after emptying the cache. I assured her that the site was live and could see it perfectly well in my browser. There are few things technologically frustrating than when someone else says ‘well, it works for me!’
Off to the Twitter community for testing.
Within seconds of sending a message with the website link to my 800 followers, I got the reply I was looking for. From Vancouver BC to New Hampshire, the site was alive and well according to five replies. This helped me narrow the problem. I was then able to assure the client that everyone else really was able to view her website. This was good news, since my client was due to appear on television the next day and hoped to draw attention to her (working) site on the air.
Except for hearing what people you’ve never met are doing in places you’ve never heard of, Twitter is a very useful, and practical community that allows people to communicate instantly. All of sudden, this social network has become a vital tool in the web and graphic design testing process.
Those that you have in your community will affect how useful it is. As a graphic designer, I don’t want to exclude other graphic and multimedia designers from communing with me. Creatives tend to be communal types anyhow, and even in other industries, it is often very useful and practical to be able to bounce ideas off others and get instant (or nearly instant) feedback.
How have you used Twitter in a practical way in your business?
By the way, thank you to all who responded. You’ll be on my #FollowFriday list (if you don’t know what that is, sign up on Twitter and follow me. See you Friday! )
Hey Nick–I just want another #FF.
Seriously, awesome Twitter testimonial! And of course, you already know about #DCTH and #EDCTH, the perfect hangouts on Thursday afternoons for us creatives!
-Cat
#DCTH I know – #EDCTH is new. Thanks for the tip…
And yes, you get another #FF!
Wow – all this geek talk makes me realise I need to do a post on Twitter #tags.
Thanks Cat!
You would be crazy to not use more Twitter marketing