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What’s the point of Twitter? Who would spend time updating what they’re doing and what’s the point of doing it?
Those were the first questions I asked myself when I looked into Twitter. I asked myself those questions because, honestly, that was what the marketers of Twitter used on their landing page.
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11.20.08
Great post -- that intro definitely grabbed my attention since I am a twitter addict! It's definitely true that the value of Twitter comes from all the other stuff you can do with it to engage with people, not from answering "what are you doing." When I hear people describe Twitter as "Facebook statuses on steroids" I know they don't get it...because those who are just using Twitter to update people on what they're doing at that moment aren't getting as much out of the little web application as they could!
11.20.08
I must also admit that I am a twitter addict. Another great aspect (I believe) is the ease of being able to share websites, like a reader.
11.20.08
Great point. Twitter does not do a good job of marketing what it really does. When I try to get my friends using it, they inevitably ask me the same question, "who cares what I'm doing all the time?" But thats really not what Twitter is about once you become a member. They should take a few notes from your post and start marketing it in different ways if they truly want to go mainstream.
11.20.08
Twitter can be a great place to meet people, get ideas and learn what's going on. It's a lot like a virtual cocktail party, with thousands of different conversations going on all at the same time. Some you listen to for awhile, others you look at and ignore. It's a flow that you jump into and out of. People are very generous.
11.20.08
I am a total Twitter addict / evangelist. It's a great way to make connections in your industry and is definitely a powerful way of crowdsourcing & idea generation.
It's just moved out of early adopter phase and I've already noticed a change in the way some people are tweeting - there's slightly less openness and more dm requests - kind of like the early days of Facebook before everyone started changing their privacy settings.
11.20.08
Good points about Twitter and how it's used...I'm a big fan myself and I have a couple of freelance clients who are marketing successfully via twitter. So it's the real deal.
11.21.08
Since I work remote from most of my colleagues, I really cherish the more social apsect of Twitter because it creates a feeling of personal connection with my colleagues that goes beyond the hustle and bustle of "gotta get things done" of the typical work call. Makes me jealous of their pizza and bowling outings, too, but that's another story.
I also enjoy sharing/learning new ideas from other experts in mny field - it's a great way to get a quick snapshot of new ideas and new ways of thinking that I otherwise might have had to dig through lots of professional journals to find. More information, better connections, faster. I like that!
Great ideas.
12.11.08
I think the creators of Twitter are doing the right thing by letting the users decide how to use Twitter. This allows us to think outside of the box by coming up with practical uses for Twitter. For example, I use Twitterfeed. Each night Twitter crawls my blog for updates and posts my latest blog entries to my Twitter page, http://twitter.com/planofstudy.
06.08.09
Just what the world needs. . .another way to communicate all the mundane parts of our existence. You people don't need twitter, you have just convinced yourself you do. I wondered what all the hype was about and a simple search brought up this page (and a few others.) Would you be better off without twitter? Probably. End of my mini-rant. Time top go out for a surf and talk to my friends face to face and not just shout into the virtual darkness in hopes somebody gives a crap.
06.19.09
seems overly scattershot.
why not just post to newsgroups? "invented" in the early 90's (or late 80's)
everytime i click a twitter link, i end up at what looks like a multi-schizoid rss feed. also resembles a facespace shoutout page...
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