There are quite a few people who don’t want to use Twitter the way it’s intended to be used. It’s understandable that many don’t want to give the whole world a play by play update of their daily life. Who cares if everyone knows you are having lunch or bought a new book? For those who think like this, something like Twitter doesn’t make sense. Even if you don’t want to ever “tweet”, there are some very useful features that Twitter offers. Having an account can be to your advantage.
First of all, there are quite a few websites that will require an account to post or comment on like many popular blogs to cut back on spam comments. With many of these systems a Twitter account can be used instead of registering for a new account. Get the Twitter account once and now you can avoid making new accounts on quite a few blogs and services across the internet. This definitely saves time and makes it easy to get involved in discussions.
On Twitter you have the ability to follow others. While you might not have friends that you know of on Twitter that you want to follow, there are many businesses, sports teams, organizations, charities, and other media that will post updates on Twitter. You can follow these and get their updates right in your Twitter account. This is much easier than bookmarking the websites and checking them looking for an update on your own manually.
You might find that you do have friends who are on Twitter tweeting away about their life. This is a good way of reconnecting with people that you know and to get involved in their lives. You might find that you are going to the same places and doing the same activities.
Another advantage of having a Twitter account is that people can find you. You could choose an anonymous name so that you will be left alone, but you can also use your real name to be found by others. There is an opportunity to place a link to your website or blog in your account. If you don’t tweet, at least people can find out where you do post information about yourself or your business on the website link that you provide.
Twitter can also be used as a real time search engine. If you go the home page, there are popular topics that are being discussed. If you are watching a football game, for example, you can see people’s real time reactions to the play that just happened or even get inside updates on an injury with links to articles. It’s a way of taking an event that is happening right now and getting the most up to date relevant information about the topic as it’s being discussed around the world.
It’s not mandatory to have a Twitter account, but take a look at the service again in light of these advantages. It is something that can be useful even if you don’t ever want to tweet yourself.
