For a guru teaching new user how to get to twitter and his profile, it seems like a nice clean way of doing it.. I’ve done something similar with http://TwitCastRadio.com.. my Twitter radio show on BlogTalkRadio.

I often think that I could be getting more fame from the BTR show with http://BlogTalkRadio.com/warren, which leads to the same show.. but opted to promote the Twitter angle as I was writing a book on Twitter at the time.

Frankly, I am not out to convert non-users to Twitter. I love telling people about the site, but realize that there many many people that aren’t ready for it (read “The 3 Stages of Twitter Acceptance” at http://budurl.com/3stages)

I now use a card that had a photo of our book cover, with my name and @WarrenWhitlock.. that’s it. If I meet someone that need my email address I write it on the back of the card (very rare when I get through with them ).

This started when I did a social media panel at the PUBCON (WebMasterWorld) convention. After hearing speakers say “does anyone here use Twitter?” and “Does anyone not use Twitter?” I got up and said “If you aren’t using Twitter.. go ahead and leave the room.. we’ll be here when you catch on”

All kidding aside. Use whatever works for your market. After all, we’re all hear to make meaningful connections with people.. not build a bureaucracy. When you make connections and build relationships with human beings.. you’ll do more business with them and get more done not matter what your goals.

@Brad you’re right about it only costing $10 or less. It’s a low cost investment for something that should be around for a while.

@Stephan Good idea about the Twitter counter. It’s a good way to display some social proof.

@Dennis I guess it really boils down to personal preference. I like the way it looks…

It does look a little cleaner I suppose as a normal URL, but the twitter URL is more recognizable AS a twitter URL.

If I saw twitterkeith.com anywhere else, I would think before clicking it, that it was a site “Keith” put up ABOUT twitter…not his profile. I’m not sure if that would actually annoy me or not.

Am I making sense? LOL Sorry for putting you in the 3rd party, it worked out that way.

Thank you so much for this idea. Sometimes ideas are so easy but we never see them. I just bought twittercasey.com and twittercaseyeberhart.com and they will be up by tomorrow. Thank you thank you!! Give someone an AWESOME day! Casey