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I learn a lot of useful stuff on Twitter. Recently, a friend forwarded me a release she received on retirement saving. The release focused on Twitter’s new member, “@Choose to Save,” a new initiative of the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute and its American Savings Education Council program.
When you go to the site, it offers microblogs or short teasers that directs you back to the web site, Choosetosave.org. It also offers various podcasts or you can download their brochure on financial tips and strategies on saving for retirement or other life events.
The updates are sent only to those who subscribe to them on Twitter and can be sent to mobile devices (such as cell phones or wireless hand-held units) as well as desktop computers.
My .02 Cents:
The information on @choosetosave is useful and provides valuable information, especially in today’s economic recession. It’s coming from a legitimate source. However, it’s a one sided conversation.
When conversations are one sided, people get turned off and may stop following. I know when I am talking with someone either on line or on the phone and he/she only talks about himself/herself, I tune out!
How can you get a conversation going when it’s a one sided conversation? Isn’t the point of Twitter to get conversation going?
