I don’t have many friends…

by Alicia Franks on May.18, 2010, under Marketing Strategy, Social Media, Twitter

If you were a parent and your young child came to you and said “I don’t have many friends”, what would you do? You would probably suggest that they become friends with their friends friends, join a sport, find friends who have similar interests, go to their favorite places and find others who are there too, or to say hello to a random person that’s in their class or another class.

Twitter is much the same as being in school – when you start, you know almost no one. You have a few people that you know because they are in your immediate circle or you email address book and you can add them right away as followers. But then where do you go? How do you find other people who would be interesting to follow? Here are just a few great suggestions from my twitter friends and followers:

BrandonMoody: The search feature.

Sn0wSurF3r: I looked for triathlon groups and followed people who followed them. Then it snowballed. I found more runners somehow.

brksndunngirl: usually with follow friday #FF the ppl u follow now recommend others

roogie: I used location based twitter clients like Twinkle on iPhone, then read tweets to see if they were worth following

nickbrennan: << searched 4 biz’s & products Im a fan of & use

elysiabrooker: My fave way is to go to people I love on Twitter, & follow people they are. Makes for relevant, like-minded twitterers

The key to finding friends anywhere in life, whether it is in school or on the web is connecting with others who are similar to you and then expanding your reach. Use the things that you like to do, read, see, and experience to find you new and interesting people to connect to. While twitter can be (and I think should be) used for business, you can’t build business from scratch…you need a foundation of trust and communication from building friendships first. Oh, and of course, you can start by following me @kirstenwright

What other ways do you have to find new friends on twitter?

:marketing, Social Media, Twitter

2 Comments for this entry

ElysiaBrooker
May 18th, 2010 on 1:32 pm
RT @kirstenwright: @brksndunngirl @Sn0wSurF3r @BrandonMoody @nickbrennan @roogie @ElysiaBrooker Thanks for your ideas: http://bit.ly/csNbuU

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kirstenwright
May 18th, 2010 on 1:34 pm
@Gorillamonk I wanted to share you idea, but couldn’t cause your tweets are protected: http://bit.ly/csNbuU

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