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Do you use twitter?  I've been trying now for about a year I guess.  It's been hard for me to get into, but I think I'm getting it now.  I've found a few people I enjoy interacting with, and I remember to tweet things I find, strange thoughts, pictures of my cat, and to re-tweet other people's interesting content.  I read everything I can find about using Twitter for your business.  Sister Diane did a really great workshop on social media marketing; you can watch the video here. The main points I hear over and over are that you are supposed to tell your story, interact with others, and share interesting content.

That's sort of the problem there - interesting content.  I probably have about 200-300 tweets a day come through my stream from people I'm following.  About 5 of those tweets are interesting content.  The rest are advertising products and services.  Now I admit that I do send out tweets when I put something new in the shop, or when my product is in a pretty treasury.  And I belong to an Etsy team where one of the tasks is to tweet other people's product.  I really do try to limit that though, because I don't want to be spammy.  I know that I don't click on those spammy tweets coming through my stream.  I groan and scroll past them trying to find something good to read, something I could respond to and engage in a conversation.

I am using Hootsuite now, to try to filter everything into categories.  People who tweet something other than spam go into a list of "people who have something to say".  That is not to say that the people in that list never promote themselves; they do, but they also say things that make me spit my coffee out laughing, or post links to interesting articles.

I'm curious about your thoughts on Twitter.  If you use it, how do you go about finding interesting people to talk to?  Do you use Twitter to promote your business and how do you walk that line between too much promotion and just the right amount?   Do you say funny things that will make me laugh or things that will make me stop and think?  Do you interact with other tweeters?  If you do, please follow me @Bobbi_Jean, so I can have someone to talk to too.  And if you don't use Twitter, please sign up and say funny things to make me spit my coffee out;)