Twitter is a great tool for soliciting advice from people. You can ask questions and you will find that a variety of people will respond to you. Use the right hashtags and even more people will answer your query. However there are pros and cons to getting advice this way.

Here’s an example. You want to choose new lighting for your home office. You want to know what the difference is between Fulham Ballast and Metal Halide Ballast. A number of different people answer you.

Benefits to getting an answer on Twitter to a question like this include:

• A lot of responses will come through.
• You will probably receive instant information from people.
• You might get the answer that you need to make an informed shopping decision.

Drawbacks of using Twitter to find out about these lighting options:

• The people who answer you might not know what they are talking about.
• There’s a chance that you’ll get spammed by people trying to sell you a specific product.
• You might not get the answer that you need to make an informed shopping decision.

Your best bet is to use Twitter in conjunction with other online resources when you have questions such as this one. In this case, you could use lighting forums and home office forums as well as blogs on these topics to supplement the responses that you receive from Twitter.

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