Denver + Boulder Local Businesses on Twitter
My list is not comprehensive. I’ve done my best to find out which local businesses are actively using Twitter, but there is no authoritative source of such information that I have found. It is also very subjective. My intent is to list businesses that are engaging with their customers and the local community using Twitter. This rules out, for example, @denversolarguy who is incredibly prolific and has many followers, but is mostly one-directional as far as I can tell. This also rules out the many businesses who follow the crap out of people to up their follow numbers, but don’t have much of interest to say. I have also tried to represent a variety of types of businesses. Since restaurants and bars are making heavy use of Twitter, I set the bar a little higher for these categories. Otherwise, the list would be hundreds of restaurants and bars with a few other businesses strewn about.
I plan on updating this list frequently and welcome any suggestions. Sources of information I have used include:
- Businesses followed by people I follow
- Wefollow.com
- Twellow.com
- Listorious.com
2 Responses to “Denver + Boulder Local Businesses on Twitter”
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It’s really great when small businesses leverage Twitter as a conversational medium to really connect with customers and prospects. But I think businesses who aren’t as conversational in their use of Twitter can also have some success.
Here’s an article that offers interesting categorization of different types of Twitter usage for business, Conversationalist, Conversational Marketer, Salesman, and Broadcaster. http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2010/01/18/four-styles-of-marketing-on-twitter/
A few Denver-area businesses I enjoy following who fall outside of Conversational:
@tonysmarket (Salesman)
@sweetactionic (Broadcaster)
Thanks! I definitely agree that business Twitterers don’t need to be conversational to benefit. For my list i was looking for businesses who engage with prospects and customers in addition to promoting themselves. I do think the businesses I chose are worth following, but I don’t mean to imply that they are the *only* local businesses worth following. I mentioned @denversolarguy for example – I think he provides a great service, he just doesn’t fit what I was trying to do.
I also enjoy following Sweet Action and Tony’s Market, in fact they were included on my list