Why do you tweet?

It seems as though everywhere I go, marketers look at me and ask about Twitter. They bring up the fact that they don't want to know "what everyone is having for breakfast" each day. So they usually ask me why I use Twitter. I've found the best answer is to ask my Twitter community in real-time while I am sitting with them.

This happened the other day when a person at another agency asked me the same question. I turned the conversation over to Twitter and received some really great responses. I'm not sure if she'll join, but she was impressed by the quality and sincerity of the replies.

I wanted to collect the responses I received and post them here. I had to jump right back into meetings so I didn't get a chance to thank everyone who replies, so let me say thanks to CC Chapman, David Brazeal, Tim Brunelle, George Nemeth, Rob Boles, Jeff Lowe, Trisha Jackson, Bo Jacobson, Dan Perry, CK, Steve Woodruff, Brendan Cooper, Megan Maguire, Kevin Huff, Joel Libava, Joe Pulizzi, Jeff Beeler, Alison Edward, the good folks over at Thundertech, Leslie Caruthers, "Cleveland" Mark Goren and Sean Scott for responding.

They even crossed over into Facebook because I have my last message on Twitter update my Facebook status.

Here are some new reasons from my message today:

So why do you use it? Let me know in 140 characters (or more if you like).

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