Particularly in comments. I haven’t figured out what the difference is between Twitter and a short blog post, and why I should have to deal with yet another channel of communication. Of course, I still haven’t figured out what Facebook is for.
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I haven’t figured out what the difference is between Twitter and a short blog post,
There .. isn’t one?
Twiiter can be more immediate than a blog post; I tend to use it like text messaging.
Hey – great tag line! Twitter is literate text messaging
Someone put it this way the other day: Facebook is about keeping up with people you knew a long time ago. Twitter is for keeping up with people you want to know.
Twitter also evolves a little based on what you need it to do. Sometimes its conversational, sometimes its bloggy, and sometimes its just weirdly random.
140 characters also makes you write very succinctly and clearly.
I became a blogger, because gamer boards weakened, and I’m not much of a blogger, so that tells you how active the gamer boards are.
I don’t twitter, but as I understand it the big driver is being able to twitter from your cell phone. Of course, you can blog from your cell phone if it has good Internet capabilities. But the 140 character limit to Twitter means all traffic can be carried as SMS messages, which are both cheap and universally available (if you have a cell phone).
That might be useful, if I spent much time on my cell phone.
I think Twitter makes sense in the context of teens and pre-teens. Think about how much time they spend texting each other asking stuff like “What’re you doing?” – Twitter is just a more efficient way of broadcasting the banal details. But hey – I never understood the kids who spent hours talking on the phone to friends, I don’t understand why people feel the need to constantly chatter on cell phones, and I’m rather appalled by the semi-literate babble that constitutes text messaging.
I think Twitter makes sense in the context of teens and pre-teens.
Welll .. today I snarked about Al Franken, asked a guy downstate a question, read about a friend’s day in Atlanta (he’s got jury duty tomorrow) and let a guy at Oracle know how i feel about their new help desk interface (useless if I can’t scroll with my mouse wheel).
I’ve bundled up email, IM and a blog.
I think Michael has it right – twitter is what you want it to be.
I’ve been using Twitter.After a bit over a week, I don’t have any interest at all any more of going to the trouble of smsing or logging updates about what I am doing. I hate typing with my thumbs. The day-to-day log of what I am doing aspect doesn’t hold much luster for me, personally. I also turned off the notifications from my friends on Twitter. Maybe if my son was old enough to be into it, I would follow him. But generally, I’m not interested in the donuts my friends eat or whether they are at work or at the park.Where Twitter was very useful was as a way to let people know where they can find you, if you want to be found. I was just in SF for a weekend, where I have a lot of friends who don’t even know each other. I was twittering in what I was doing and where so that friends could find me if they wanted to. There were even a couple people who (gasp) don’t have cell phones, so it allowed me to message a lot of people all at once. I think of Twitter as sort of the most bare bones version of Dodgeball possible. I loved dodgeball, but couldn’t get my friends on board, and so never really used it. To follow me on Twitter you don’t need a phone, you don’t need to sign up. The simplicity is wonderful.