Comments on: @Wormlady is our 400th Twitter follower http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower EPA's Blog About Our World Fri, 17 May 2013 15:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Leonard http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-26969 Mark Leonard Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:49:25 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-26969 Twitter is great for sending visitors to your website . Simple to use and setup isa breeze.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-26968 Anonymous Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:49:00 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-26968 Twitter is great for sending visitors to your website . Simple to use and setup isa breeze.

]]> By: demetriusalwyn http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-26843 demetriusalwyn Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:28:50 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-26843 myspace is more to keep in touch with friends, talk with people, meet new people, while twitter tends to be attractive to people that like to blog.On twitter the basic premise is to send out short “tweets” that are like little updates sent out to everyone on your friends list, i.e. “just got done shopping, now I’m gonna go workout!!”

]]> By: Kyle Eagle http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-23443 Kyle Eagle Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:54 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-23443 Very interesting read! Twitter is definitely an amazing site to use, and fun too! Sometimes I think I’m addicted to Twitter because I’m on it so often – haha. Great post!

~Kyle Eagle

]]> By: Robert R http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-21228 Robert R Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:56:42 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-21228 Twitter is a great way to get out the word for sure! The results of the viral word of mouth is astronomical! I will for sure post about this on twitter so that the word can get out on this blog!
thank you!

]]> By: Jeffrey Levy http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-17310 Jeffrey Levy Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:17:52 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-17310 Aaron: we’re still working out how best to use Twitter. As you noted, @greenversations is simply an RSS-fed account. I know real engagement is the gold standard, but it seems plenty of people are happy enough with this to follow.

@usepagov is also primarily RSS-driven, but I’ve started monitoring it and answering questions through manual tweets on the rare occasions we get any.

Thanks for reading and commenting!

Jeffrey Levy (@levyj413 on Twitter)

]]> By: Aaron http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-17267 Aaron Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:11:01 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-17267 Congratulations, it looks like you’ve multiplied your followers by 10x since this post. Great to see our government embracing social media. Twitter is an amazing way to connect with people.

I did notice from your stream of tweets that they are basically all pointers to articles. Not exactly ‘engagement’. It’s a great first step. Are there policies for how agencies can (or cannot) respond to users on non-government sites?

I write a blog on Twitter marketing and plan to write an article specifically on how government agencies are using Twitter. We’ve already written extensively about small businesses, corporations and non-profits. We’ll definitely include your Twitter info.

]]> By: jona http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-15604 jona Sun, 03 May 2009 11:37:18 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-15604 So Twitter is awesome for Taking traffic to you website . It is very
simple to setup and its a fun positive way to keep in contact with
people.

]]> By: Jon Alan http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-12608 Jon Alan Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:52:41 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-12608 With the ever increasing use of twitter and other such social media sites I think more of the government should take advantage of what they have to offer. It’s great that the epa gets its environmental message out there but other departments of the government could also benefit in it’s use.

Jon
http://jonspace.net

]]> By: Anna Wilde http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/11/wormlady-is-our-400th-twitter-follower/comment-page-1/#comment-10747 Anna Wilde Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:58:37 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=494#comment-10747 Hi Jeffrey

social media is a fantastic way to reach leverage many to many conversations and you never know when a message will take off virally and suddenly impact a hugely wider audience than even intended. this is because of the interconnected nature of so many concerns. for instance stewardship of the environment is related tangentially but interconnected directly with health food and preventative medicine due to the correlation of health and environment and food. You never know when a message/post you release will virally take off. Every one that does take off cumulatively expands the reach of subsequent messages. thanks for this topic Anna Wilde

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