What’s in a Tweet? Why I do and why you should too.
I am an avid Twitter(er) I have TweetDeck on my machine at work and on my laptop at home, I have a twitter app on my BlackBerry and you can watch the evolution of my usage by a quick skim of the early days of my feed. I Tweet because I find it fun and fascinating, I am exposed to people I would never normally have the opportunity to interact with even passively. As a technology professional getting a glimpse into what an industry leader or commentator is thinking or reading is priceless; and if I get the chance to pass that on or comment myself so much the better.
At least to the crowd I run with on a daily basis Twitter is something of a foreign commodity, I have a few friends and casual colleagues online but by and large I get the “Well I have HEARD of it” or “is it like FaceBook?” responses when I talk passionately about it. My wife (@kcampbellb) is fighting the addiction hard but I think she is crumbling, another friend (@digiphile) tweets like it is his job because…well it is. I don’t aspire to become one of the Twitterati but if I can drive some traffic to my blog or meet some new, cool people or stumble into something amazing then I will continue to be fulfilled with my 140 character relationships.
A lot of fuss is being made about these “Web 2.0” companies not having sustainable business models and how overly trendy all these web based applications are but if you think about it all sorts of things have begun as community driven grass-roots movements and initiatives. Political campaigns community organizations etc. You just need the weight of people who feel that they are worthwhile behind them, would I pay for Twitter? Probably, assuming that the people I cared about following did too; but that’s beside the point. What Twitter is doing is facilitating dialogue; we have taken relationships both personal and professional and put them out in the “cloud”. It’s not as stuffy as LinkedIn and it doesn’t have the pictures of drunken revelry that FaceBook is clogged with; it’s a platform for communication that can be both inane and profound, worthwhile and worthless and I am proud to be a part of it.
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