{"id":1891,"date":"2008-12-19T23:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2008-12-19T23:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T05:50:25","slug":"companies-on-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Companies on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny.  The other day when I was tweeting a lot about Carrabba&#8217;s I had told Brian jokingly, &#8220;Just watch.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/carrabbas\" >Carrabba&#8217;s is going to start following me<\/a> any day now.&#8221;  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonsdeli\" >Jason&#8217;s Deli and a few other companies had found me the same way<\/a>.  One day I was tweeting about them (in the case of Jason&#8217;s Deli, I had posted a couple of food pictures), the next day they&#8217;re following my updates.  Sure enough, I received an email notifying me that Carrabba&#8217;s is now following me.  In return I started following them, too.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of companies already utilizing Twitter to creep out their customers.  Comcast being one.  I remember I had posted a link to an article about this exact same thing, and I received an @reply back from them saying something to the effect of it&#8217;s not being creepy <em>per se<\/em> but more <em>good<\/em> customer service than anything else.  Anyway, since I&#8217;ve been posting a lot about my dissatisfaction with FedEx and not delivering my package as scheduled, I wonder if they&#8217;ve noticed.  Does anyone know if FedEx is on Twitter?  We&#8217;ll find out soon enough I guess.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fluentsimplicity.com\/twitter-brand-index\/\" >Click here for an extensive list of companies who are on Twitter.<\/a>  Here are some relevant articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/sep2008\/tc2008095_320491.htm\" >How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.searchengineguide.com\/david-wallace\/can-twitter-be-useful-for-business.php\" >Can Twitter Be Useful For Business?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofthecustomer.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/today-ben-marti.html\" >How companies connect using Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timpeter.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/smart-companies-use-twitter-heres-how\/\" >Smart companies use Twitter. Here\u2019s how.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081215.WBmingram20081215121809\/WBStory\/WBmingram\" >How should companies use Twitter?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10787_3-10127532-60.html\" >Reimagining direct marketing with a (Twitter) spin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/digitalnext\/article?article_id=133425\" >How to Turn Twitter into an Ad Network In Three Easy Steps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-312-Auctions-and-Antiques-Examiner~y2008m12d18-Report-on-social-networking-sites-for-business-use-employment-opportunities?comments=true\" >Report on social networking sites for business use, employment opportunities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/19\/filtering-twitter-one-tweet-at-a-time\/\" >Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2008\/12\/prweb1737544.htm\" >&#8220;Twitter Means Business&#8221; &#8212; A Twitter Manual for Companies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.thenewsroom.com\/mash\/swf\/voxant_player.js?a=V3325249&#038;m=732927&#038;w=480&#038;h=380'><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny. The other day when I was tweeting a lot about Carrabba&#8217;s I had told Brian jokingly, &#8220;Just watch. Carrabba&#8217;s is going to start following me any day now.&#8221; Jason&#8217;s Deli and a few other companies had found me the same way. One day I was tweeting about them (in the case of Jason&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[237,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}