Personally I don't object to them as such but it very much depends on whether its a brand I'm interested in and tonight, I'm giving Twitter a wide berth. I don't like my timeline being clogged up with stuff I'm not interested in, but because I may like the people involved I don't want to unfollow which leaves me with two choices, stay away for the duration or put up.
Lush have been having parties for years and frankly I think a forum is a much better venue for such things where people do have a choice to opt into that particular section of the board, or just avoid but still be able to use the board.
I think people read twitter differently--some skim ignoring most of what they see.
A few (myself included) tend to read almost all and so I don't follow a huge # of people. I can't. A flood of anything that I'm not interested in may be grounds for un-follow. Since twitter follows/unfollows are completely costless (I can simply start re-following another day), twitter parties about things I find irrelevant don't bother me at all (as long as the party participant doesn't mind my un-follow).
I started to take part in a twitter party this evening, but after a while, I lost interest. Like Charlie, I think a forum would be much better for such events, and would probably make following the whole 'event' a lot easier :).
I also started to take part in the Twitter party tonight, but once I got bored I just read *non party* tweets. I would never unfollow someone just for being involved in the party though. I think that we will be seeing more twitter parties in the future when brands catch onto the idea that it is a way of increasing their profile/followers. Jude xx @jadlgw
I think because it's such a new concept that I'm sure we will see more and more of them, some brands will get it totally wrong and others won't.
I feel tonight even though I slightly cringe at the term 'Twitter Party' the buzz was there around that brand and people were excited to share what products they liked and what they wanted to try. But I would say an hour was maybe slightly too long.
As for the previous Twitter party... I really didn't mind that some bloggers had be asked to do sponspored posts but I felt it was more tweets from them about the product and wasn't about involving people into one big chat. But then again that could be because it was focused on one product and not a whole brand with lots of different products.
As for the amount of people tweeting it's always going to happen like you say... for example when Xfactor is on, it can be a bit annoying if you aren't interested but it's never for that long.
Apologies for the delay in commenting. I think twitter parties can be good, but it depends on how they are done. For me, twitter parties are a bit like a promotional giveaway and I don't see anything wrong with that. I missed the 17 cosmetics party, I think I was travelling or hung over that day and I would have very much liked to have taken part. I can't say I was thrilled with the lipcote one. I wasn't even flooded with it, I think I missed the rush, but I just thought it was a bit forced, not very well executed and it was not open to everyone. Allowing only certain people to the party fun, and others feel left out xx
7 comments:
Personally I don't object to them as such but it very much depends on whether its a brand I'm interested in and tonight, I'm giving Twitter a wide berth. I don't like my timeline being clogged up with stuff I'm not interested in, but because I may like the people involved I don't want to unfollow which leaves me with two choices, stay away for the duration or put up.
Lush have been having parties for years and frankly I think a forum is a much better venue for such things where people do have a choice to opt into that particular section of the board, or just avoid but still be able to use the board.
I think people read twitter differently--some skim ignoring most of what they see.
A few (myself included) tend to read almost all and so I don't follow a huge # of people. I can't. A flood of anything that I'm not interested in may be grounds for un-follow. Since twitter follows/unfollows are completely costless (I can simply start re-following another day), twitter parties about things I find irrelevant don't bother me at all (as long as the party participant doesn't mind my un-follow).
I started to take part in a twitter party this evening, but after a while, I lost interest. Like Charlie, I think a forum would be much better for such events, and would probably make following the whole 'event' a lot easier :).
I also started to take part in the Twitter party tonight, but once I got bored I just read *non party* tweets. I would never unfollow someone just for being involved in the party though. I think that we will be seeing more twitter parties in the future when brands catch onto the idea that it is a way of increasing their profile/followers. Jude xx @jadlgw
Just to be clear, I don't un-follow just for being involved in a party--just when there's a flood and it's not something that I'm drawn to....
I think because it's such a new concept that I'm sure we will see more and more of them, some brands will get it totally wrong and others won't.
I feel tonight even though I slightly cringe at the term 'Twitter Party' the buzz was there around that brand and people were excited to share what products they liked and what they wanted to try. But I would say an hour was maybe slightly too long.
As for the previous Twitter party... I really didn't mind that some bloggers had be asked to do sponspored posts but I felt it was more tweets from them about the product and wasn't about involving people into one big chat. But then again that could be because it was focused on one product and not a whole brand with lots of different products.
As for the amount of people tweeting it's always going to happen like you say... for example when Xfactor is on, it can be a bit annoying if you aren't interested but it's never for that long.
Fee x
Apologies for the delay in commenting. I think twitter parties can be good, but it depends on how they are done. For me, twitter parties are a bit like a promotional giveaway and I don't see anything wrong with that. I missed the 17 cosmetics party, I think I was travelling or hung over that day and I would have very much liked to have taken part. I can't say I was thrilled with the lipcote one. I wasn't even flooded with it, I think I missed the rush, but I just thought it was a bit forced, not very well executed and it was not open to everyone. Allowing only certain people to the party fun, and others feel left out xx
Post a Comment