Tweet Me Your Card

It’s now possible to share a business card via Twitter. Twtapps, the company that make a number of different apps that run on Twitter (‘twtapps’ – see what they’ve done there?) now make it easy to share your business card via Twitter.

How is this possible? I hear you cry. Let me explain. Here are the simple steps involved:

1. Visit twtbizcard.com
2. Click the ‘Create a business card’ link
3. Fill out the details you want displayed on your card (you can edit things at any time)
4. Remember the Twitter hashtag #twtbizcard
5. To share your new card, simply @reply your intended recipient and include the memorable hashtag from step 4

When someone sends you a card, Twtapps follow up with a tweet that includes a link to where the card lives.

This all sounds quite appealing.

My test seemed to confuse the app, however. After creating a card for my primary Twitter account, I then created a second card for a client account. All seemed to proceed according to plan in both cases, as I had to connect using the correct Twitter account name and password for each card.

But when I sent the client card to my primary account, I waited and waited for the link notification. Nothing came. I got the initial @reply with the hashtag appended but then nothing from twtBizCard itself telling me where to find the card.

No time limit is specified in the instructions – and there’s no help/faq – but surely one of the key things about sharing a business card is a certain immediacy. Perhaps that’s just me but a delay in the process is a bit like coming back from a day of meetings and finding a set of cards in your pocket and then trying to remember who went with which and why you swapped cards in the first place.

Anyway, this could potentially be another step towards removing the need for any physical networking at all.

Unless you’re in a rush.

Or have a poor memory.