Yesterday, a friend called me while I was at work. He asked me if I wanted to join him and watch Shutter Island later on. At the time, I wasn’t sure. I told him I’d call him back.

The reason I wasn’t sure, was that I didn’t know anything about the movie. So, before letting him know my decision, here’s what I did.

First, I watched the trailer at Apple, then, I published a tweet. I wanted feedback, from people who had watched the movie. The trailer was cool, but I’ve watched a lot of cool trailers for really bad movies.

The tweet was short. It said something like. Have you watched Shutter Island? If you have, what did you think?

That’s one of the reasons why I think Twitter is such a powerful tool. Whatever I ask, in just a few minutes, I receive response from people with their answers. I’ve fixed my iMac this way, and I have received dinner tips this way.

If you are looking for feedback, I can’t think of a better way to get it than to use Twitter. The reason is that even though you might not have that many followers, a lot of people are using Twitter search, and if you tweet about popular topics (like Shutter Island), a lot of people might read your tweet and reply to it.

If you have questions, if you want feedback, use Twitter.

There are two ways to do this.

Just ask the questions. Send a regular tweet and ask the questions, and you’ll get the feedback as regular tweets. This is great for open questions, and when you want people to write what’s on their minds.

The other way is to use polls. There are many benefits of running polls on Twitter. Polls are great for feedback, especially if you’re not looking for complex answers, and when you have specified what the answers are. You can even get comments on the polls, comments that can be a lot longer than 140 characters.

Here are some of the services you should consider using:

- PollDaddy
- StrawPoll
- twtpoll
- POLLpigeon
- Poll Your Followers
- Polls.tw

Oh, I almost forgot. I received feedback that Shutter Island is definitely a movie that I should watch. It didn’t happen yesterday, I decided to go skiing instead. A decision Twitter didn’t have any impact on.