Comments on: Twitter, or Not To Twitter

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:36:22 +0000

I just signed up to twitter, I’m really note sure what the point in it is.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:34:40 +0000

Aside from the ‘personal promotion’ side of Twitter, I think it might be a potentially useful tool to keep small communities or special interest groups quickly and easily informed. One example might be for expat communities to have accounts and then keep updating them in with basic travel plans or with instructions to respond to a crisis (assuming that the emergency hadn’t overtaken the ability to get online or receive text messages).

The reliability of Twitter might make me think twice about using the service as a critical communications tool, but it makes a nice addition to a variety of ways of staying in touch or using a diversity of communication channels.

By: Addi

Addi — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:06:52 +0000

To me twitter is:

* A time capsule for your one liner thoughts.
* A place to get feedback on ideas or discover new things
* Chat software where you are the channel
* Condensed thought space.
* Gaming platform (colorwar2008.com)
* Informal way of digitally nudging others.

….and to have that on your desktop or in your pocket, hi-fi with web or lo-fi with sms is pretty darn flexible and pervasive.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:36:49 +0000

Twitter is useful, you just need to be creative. For example, you can use Twitter to make your plants tell you when they need watering ;-)

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/how_to_make_plants_talk_t.html

By: Justin Flood

Justin Flood — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:03:06 +0000

Personally, I love Twitter. It just doesn’t become useful or fun unless you are following and are being followed by at least 20 people. After that, then it becomes a great place to gauge reactions to things, catch up on breaking news, or just to make plans with friends. Twitter is something of an aquired taste, but once you find your niche in it, Twitter becomes invaluable in ways other social networks could never be. Just my two cents.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:24:31 +0000

created an account…. never f’in use it.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:32:00 +0000

TO twitter, and Dan I can’t post directly to the site again.

By: chriSchaeffer

chriSchaeffer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:09:33 +0000

This is the video that got me interested.

http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

Commoncraft does a great job of explaining why it is useful at all.

By: Tice

Tice — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:39:10 +0000

“Dear dairy…” … well I guess it’s the same reason why people write diaries. Only in this case it’s open and spread out in the world. In my opinion it is more creative to write your own blog in PHP, make it what you really want and make it to a biosphere with many readers. That works only if you have to say something interesting or at least funny. If not – don’t do it. Write it on paper.

By: Malinthe

Malinthe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:45:57 +0000

I just use twitter for fun but sometimes, it has been a good communication system. We are holding a Sinhala Blog Marathon and we use it to give out notifications too. Well it has it’s uses, personal preference I think. If you have a good base of twittering friends, it’s a nice experience.
http://twitter.com/malinthe