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Startup The Show: #5 Conversation

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

So today was the day of the great day for conversations on the web, spurred by one single post, and the aftermath has been called “The great Jeremiah Owyang Twitter expansion of 2007.” In the post, titles so boldly “Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter” Jeremiah describes who he thinks twitter is for and not.

If you’re in the tech industry, and in marketing, you should be paying attention to what’s happening on twitter. There’s even search tools that can help you find discussions and memes. Also, if you’re trying to reach early adopters, these are tools for you. This really reminds me of the the whole blogging industry in 2005, it’s the same type of pros and cons –it’s just much smaller now. If you don’t meet these criterion, then it may not be for you, always remember to find the audience you’re trying to reach first.

For episode #5 Rana and Andrew (or as this discussion goes, @ranajune and @andrewhyde) discuss what it means to form the conversation, how it affects startups and Twitter best practices. Oh the joys of an entire podcast dedicated to the 140 character update.