Ok, so I have a Twitter confession to make. If you follow one of my two Twitter handles @lindsayfultz or @GroshBackdrops and/or I follow you...I have something to tell you that you may or may not find disturbing...
I have looked in your medicine cabinet when you weren't looking, and have been for the past couple of months.
Say what?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Well on everyone's Twitter profile there is a favorites link and what I do, is go in and look at all the tweets that you deemed "favorite" worthy. I first started snooping in your cabinets because I am a compulsive "favoriter". My tally was nearing 1,000 and I became a bit self conscious. I was curious as to what the norm was so I did some research. What I have found and learned from the Twitter medicine cabinets has been invaluable to me.
How I utilize the favorite button as a learning tool:
1.) Twitter to-do list: When I am busy at the office or out running errands and I have a few seconds to spare I hit up my Twitter stream and favorite tweets of interest. Then when I have time I use it as a to-do checklist and "unfavorite" each one as I read them. Yes I read everything that I retweet and you should too but that's another topic in itself. I then retweet it if I found the content helpful. Guess it's kinda like my Google Reader but on Twitter.
2.) To learn more about my competitors: What #HowTo's, tips and tricks are they favoriting? Think about it...you can see what your competition has up there sleeves.
3.) To get inside the brilliant minds of thought leaders and my mentors: If thought leaders are favoriting things they want to learn more about or what they have found helpful, you better believe, I'm all eyes.
4.) To decide if you are follow worthy
5.) To learn more period! Yes, I bogart the can man and favorite other peoples favorites! It's a great way drown out the noisy Twitter stream. When I have a particular topic I would like to learn more about and am pressed for time, I will go straight to the favorites of key players in that industry or subject.
Ok, at this point some of you may be feeling a bit violated...or perhaps the jig is up and it's your Twitter secret too. Either way, I feel better getting this off of my chest.
So let's hear it, who snoops? What are some clever ways you utilize Twitter for benefit?