If you use twitter, you don’t need any introduction to this video. If you’re not on twitter, you likely know someone who is.. and you’ve likely been confused as to why that someone uses twitter. Well here’s the video for you.
@rbostyle just posted an entry about twitter on his blog!!!
I joined twitter over a year ago now, after a few months of thinking that it was sort of pointless… why would anyone care to receive random updates about my life? That is, until I realized it could be a great way to connect with people that I wouldn’t normally communicate with. Then when I found out that tons of other new media types were on it, posting links to the latest industry stories, videos, events, and general interesting tidbits, I started to see some merit in it.
Now I love twitter! I look forward to hearing what all my twitter friends have to say each day, and most of it I find really helpful. I can learn about the latest news story in town hours, days, or even weeks before it shows up in the local papers or newscasts. I can find new contacts in my industry to get to know and talk geeky with. And I can even show support for local businesses, like the awesome work @VancouverOpera is doing to bring Opera to the people!
As far as my own posts go, I try to post tweets that are helpful. You won’t hear me tweeting about my deepest thoughts, the colour of shirt I’m wearing, or my bathroom activities.. if I don’t find it useful, I’m not going to share it, because you won’t want to read it! In fact, unlike blogs or most other forms of publication, your twitter followers don’t penalize you for infrequent updates.. I’d venture to say the opposite is true. Followers drop if they feel they’re getting spammed. So I try not to post too many times a day, because anyone who uses twitter knows how frustrating it can be to have your entire feed spammed by one or two people, whether they’re useful tweets or not. Moral of the story; if I don’t have anything useful to say, I just wait until I do.
That’s my experience with twitter, but what about yours?
Do you use twitter? Why or why not?
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Comments ( 4 )
I think you carry some valid points in your post about Twitter. It’s instantaneous, filtered, and to the point (although this really depends on who you are following). However, I think one of the things that draw me towards Twitter is its inherit constraints. I can spend a quick few minutes scanning tweets from NYTimes, Walker Art Centre, a few designers that I follow, and some friends and have a dispersed sense of knowing. It doesn’t require me to commit a lot of time into it, and conversely opens up the time for other things. It is focused on delivering a certain experience through certain characteristics and I like that specificity.
But, on the flip side – Can this be considered productivity?
Is this the new “Feed Me” age where conversations are a quick 140 characters or shorter?
I am not quite sure what to make of that just yet.
Akash added these pithy words on
Mar 24 09 at
11:48 pm
The video is indeed hilarious. I saw it for the first time just yesterday.
I’ve been using twitter for around a year now, but I don’t particularly find value in it, in my eyes it’s not a good platform for staying connected because it’s quite chaotic and disorganised, and even if my friends were on there, the new Facebook layout seems to do the same thing in a much more elegant (and useful IMO) way…
But this is simply my opinion. Twitter doesn’t have much value for me, but I look forward to finding useful people to follow, and maybe I’ll change my mind.
Jimzip
Jimzip added these pithy words on
Mar 25 09 at
9:56 am
ahahaha.. all us twitter folks are super annoying happy geeks! (;
Lizsu added these pithy words on
Mar 29 09 at
7:21 pm
