One thing I love about travel days is the opportunity to people-watch and think. Most of the people reading this post have been on a plane at one time or another and, once seated, your environment could take shape in several ways.
You might be traveling with a companion, a “friend”. Or you might be alone and end up sitting with strangers. If so, do you strike up a conversation? Talk about mundane things, guage whether you’ll be able to talk or if it’s better to just read the magazine?
Imagine your Twitter stream is that plane. Do you connect to people you know or engage others in conversation because they happen to be on at the same time as you. You might have nothing in common but your desire to get from one place to another. Yet you might still talk. You might provide each other advice or just chat idly to pass the time until your next stop.
What about a charter flight? A plane to Cancun or some other popular vacation destination? Isn’t it a bit different when you and all the strangers on the plane with you are heading in the same direction for the same reason? Consider this the stream of conversation on a tab in Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, or Seesmic.
That, in a nutshell is the core power of these Twitter communications management tools. They let you filter and find people who have a similar interest or goal or knowledge.
What tools do you use to help you manage your Twitter conversations and why? Leave comment; let us know!
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