Where do you find the time or inclination to do all that tweeting?  I have days (weeks) where I really don’t even want to check my email. Although I do think I did sign up for s twitter account.  I don’t remember or know how to find out.  It was while I was setting up my webpage, which I need to update.

Since people are still interested, I have to inform y’all of http://www.Foodspotting.com
If you don’t like the “social” in social media, Foodspotting is for you.
While you don’t interact, necessarily, with people, you DO post pictures of your food. The pictures are linked to your location.
Basically, Foodspotting asks What the food is, Where you found it, and allows for comments. People can “Want” or “Nom” your pictures. You can “tag” each picture with categories that people can search (Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Vegetarian, Mexican, Cheese, etc).
 
So, basically, all you have to do is take pics of your food and post them, using your location.
Foodspotting has also just created a sister site, specifically for food trucks.
It’s called http://www.cartspotting.com 
 
Seriously, it’s pretty simple. If you can post a pic here, you can post a pic there.
 
Again, if anyone has questions or needs help, feel free to email me. The addy is somewhere in this thread.
 

This is a great informative thread.
 
Jerry

Am reading online that many mobile food vendors have a “following”…One guy has 42,000 “fans” or customers who like his food and want to know his daily locations.  Some say that sending out a tweet prior to arriving can create a line before they get set up ?  Wondering how many users on this board use these electronic tools and is it really beneficial ?  Could this be a big city only kinda practice.  Isn’t the primary twitterer person a kid ?  Maybe I am behind times…?  

I am in the planning stages of transforming a step-van type truck into a mobile kitchen.  I want to set up somewhere different each day…..will go to one of several small towns who surround my larger city which is about 150,000 population….may have some regular spots in the larger city too.  Maybe this will be too small-town to use facebook and twitter….any thoughts ?

I have booked a few gigs using facebook. Moms will contact me to serve at their kids B-Day parties. I have also found events on facebook that I got in for next to nothing. Another good thing about twitter and face book is what another thread said. You can always let your customers know if your going to be out at your location, sick,  or if your on vacation.

I am in the same process as you TheIke. I am converting a step van or large ice cream truck in to my rolling kitchen. I already have companies that have me out to their location and i am using my cart attached to my truck for now. It willl be so much easier when I get my lunch truck done.
I work next to a fusion truck MoGo BBQ (Korean/Mexican fusion). I have done many event with them, and I like what they are doing. I know they have a specific food you can’t get anywhere, but if I can get 1/8th the fans they have I will be doing really well.
They have about 7000 followers on facebook and growing by the day.They do their business mainly on facebook and Twitter. I posted a link to a truck I am looking at. I want to convert it to steamers and repaint and slap my logo’s and food menu all over it. I am waiting on a call back from the Health Department to give me the requirements.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/1865224581.html http://sfbay.craigslist.o./eby/cto/1865224581.html

 
I’m so glad I found this thread … I’ve been going to post about facebook and see if it was being used.   I don’t have a twitter account, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to have both.  I did check out the food trucks that were listed and it’s something how they post just a simple note about their whereabouts.      Facebook and twitter are free advertising for the time being and it is so easy to have your website, phone number and  facebook/twitter page on the side of your truck/trailer and not only is it cheaper than the yellow pages, you reach a whole lot more people.

… I also printed up some “Twit-Face” cards …

Somehow that sounds like an insult….

I’m on the receiving end.  I have a Twitter account, but I do not Tweet, it is just for following mobile food trucks.  I activated the feature to send the Tweets to my iPhone, and I lunch at various trucks several times per month.  I would not know where they were without it, unless I logged on to Facebook to check their postings.  The trucks post locations, weather reports and specials.

It’s a big deal here, but of course I cannot speak for other areas.  The only cost for the sender is that he has to have a means to Tweet from the field (phone, or a laptop with air card).

I use Facebook and have Twitter tied into it for business. I also printed up some “Twit-Face” cards that include my phone #’s, website and T-FB name. My customers have been kinda slow to pick up on it, they are bunch of working guys that don’t really use T-FB but it does work.

Thanks for the tip X1.  I’ll check them out.  No comment on Lucky Dogs.

About 6 months ago a girl has a hot dog and says, “Now I’m going to tweet about your hot dog cart.”  I couldn’t help myself, I blurted out, “But, who cares what you think?”  Sometimes the mouth works faster than the brain.  She came back 5 minutes later and said that 43 people just read about my hot dog cart.  I started a twitter account later that week.  I also do FB, and have a website that is more blog than website.  All of them require a little attention most days.  I tweet, post and blog about specials, where I’m going to be and the odd wiener joke.  Not sure how important it is yet, but I do often some response.  The best known use of Twitter has been with the Kogi Taco Trucks in L.A.  They have to move every two hours and they do have more than 45,000 twitter followers.  Social networking is the ad medium of now and the near future.  I’m all for using it.  It is pretty much free.
It is hard to utilize yelp.  Yelp is a user based review site.  Pretty hard to control that.  But if you do show up well it can drive alot of business your way. 

Yelp is another site to utilize.

I agree, it does seem like a knubskull (sp?) thing to do, except that it seems to work and bring customers to the vendor.  People seem to like the Twitter thing…..like “belonging” to something cool, popular, etc.  Just for the sheer simplicity of having a way to get connected to customers who like your food, and create a “base” of followers or repeat customers sounds like a good idea.  I plan to put the twitter address on both sides of my truck in large letters.  people can see it while I am driving down the street, and while sitting at a work location.  Times…… they are a changin

 
If I didn’t have this business, I would not have a twitter account. Who in the hell would care or want to know what is on my mind, and why in the hell would I think anyone would shive a git? Times may be a changin’, but with all the myspace/facebook/youtube losers looking for their 15 minutes of fame, are things changing for the better?
 

yea , I dont understand all these funky gadgets either, I would like to use them but my 6 y/o grand son is alway’s to busy to get me setup right! i have a facebook but thats junk too! twitter ?? i’m just a twit that cant? oh botheri’m just an eore……………….. x-1 i emailed you dude