My Tweet Challenge Experience

I hit over 100 tweets, followed more than 25 new people and used everything from #hahtags, RT's, Links and @replies. This challenge was a challenge for me. Thanks to everyone who followed me and tweeted me! The challenge has helped me to see the value of using twitter to connect with other people and learn new things even if it did consume a lot of my time.

I will admit that not having the Internet physically at my fingertips (i.e. smart phone, iphone,etc.) did limit me in this challenge. Although, today while I was sitting on the crammed shuttle to class, I noticed that the guy sitting next to me was tweeting from his iphone. I engaged him in conversation about twitter and we talked all the way until we got off the shuttle. He had mentioned that there was the option to tweet using text messaging on your phone. Sadly, I am still a simple girl at the end of the day and I do not have unlimited text messaging on my phone so I don't see that really being a feasible option for me, but still good to know for all my readers out there.

However, the lack of Internet at my fingertips was not the only obstacle I faced in this challenge. In addition, I did come across the reality that many professional women may be aware of twitter for their organization, but are not at this point in time using twitter personally. I say this because over the last week, I had the opportunity to attend a PBC Women in Athletics Seminar and a Women's Leadership Forum. I got the names of the guest speakers and some of those who attended and looked them up on twitter, the majority I did not find and the few that were found had not updated their pages for awhile.

On the other hand, I did have some positive takeaways from this challenge. I had the opportunity to take a client that I am working with this semester, Aubri Lanes restaurant, and increase their twitter followers from only 1 follower to a total of 4. I understand that this is just a small measure of improvement, but you see that was just from 1 tweet about @AubriLanes. I believe that if Aubri Lanes will move into constantly updating their twitter page, they could have an even better following. My hope is to see that Aubri Lanes will continue to increase their twitter followers and twitter presence. I'm not sure how I can measure the result of whether or not using twitter brings people into the restaurant, but I do know that it will serve to most certainly increase their brand awareness.

In this challenge, I experienced such a variety of knowledge from my exposure to twitter. I think of twitter as a constantly updated newspaper where I can get information readily about everything there is to know. I am glad that this challenge is behind me now. I look forward to tweeting at the healthy medium for me and that does not include 5 tweets a day, everyday.