This is more of a rant or an out flow of random thoughts than anything else.
We have a twitter account ( @kennnbarbie2 ) and we have been on there for a while. We're not overly active meaning yes we post and try to talk with others but we really don’t join mafia clubs or send gifts to others nor are we on there all the time using our cell phones to post every little thing we do. We tend to post when we are going out, some general things after we have gone out, to be honest a lot of them were about the revamp of the site and the process we went through for that. This brings me to the rant… We never mentioned the site by name and only now have we even listed the website as a link. The idea behind the twitter account we to share our experiences as a couple who enjoys wife swapping or more commonly known as the Swinglifestyle while balancing family / kids one with a disability, and running a business. We have only found a few genuine people in the lifestyle on twitter and majority seems to be other websites promoting themselves and in a way I guess we fall into that. Because we do have a website… yet we make a point not to follow other sites and try to only follow people.
Something that made us think… we know our previous site sucked well at least wasn’t designed very well, so the competition didn’t pay us much mind. Rightfully so… but the other day they all of the sudden started to follow us on twitter with a brand new account. Is this just a fluke something that happened as they set up the account looking for followers? What should we do take the higher ground and leave them be? Or Block them to keep with our own guideline. Quite frankly we’ll probably do nothing… we won’t follow them back nor will we block them.
The idea of twitter as a marketing tool for our type of site is still unproven to me. We’re not prono yet as a swinger/dating site we are more adult and work hard to keep children from the site, so do we really fit the mold for twitter? We’re not Ashton Kutcher, we’re not mobile cupcakes so does anything our industry put up become more than spam wallpaper. Hell, I get annoyed at seeing post after post tweet after tweet for some prono site. Do we really want to be thrown into that mix? Ah no… that is why we try and use twitter for what is it a social network a personality attached to the brand. Not everyone will like the brand or the personality for that matter. Don’t get us wrong if by some slim chance the twitter-sphere picks us up and says “there site is awesome and you have to be a member” than great, awesome but is that what we are looking to do. No… It is a place for us to share about our lives, our day, trying to balance life and all it throws at us. Twitter has it place on the web and it is definitely growing, the question is does the Swinglifestyle have its place on twitter? As individuals sure we are everywhere… As an industry that I’m not so sure of.
