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A Twitter Decision
- moe 18y agoTwitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter. A new twitter story every week. Will the hype ever end? I'll freely admit: I don't get twitter. I tried it, looked around, followed some twitter-crazy friends for weeks. I wanted to like it. Even sent a few tweets myself. It didn't stick. I can't see the revolution. To me it was just noise from the beginning and remained noise until I quit. Maybe I'm old (28) or in the wrong business (IT). I normally spent a large part of my computer-time trying to optimize the signal/noise ratio. I use RSS feeds, tweak my mail client filters, actually put myself on "unavailable" in skype sometimes. I fail to see how twitter can help with that. In fact, I envy people who apparently have such a great SNR that they can pollute it with twitter and even benefit from it. You may hate me now and throw tomatoes at me.
- timf 18y agoI don't use it right now. But I need to learn about participating in it for micro-isv, that article helped my ignorant self. Without using an account presently and just having Google alerts etc. with some keywords, I have continually seen there is a lot of information tucked into people's Twitter comments (especially regarding my current research field). So in some sense, I'm stuck with it whether I even participate or not. And in the future with a consumer product, I think it is a great idea to respond to people's comments about the product (positive or negative) if you can get alerts as they happen. Regarding finding helpful information there, I guess it really depends on how intensely you're tracking certain topics (and how much the speed of knowing new developments matters). Agreeing to constantly and actively participate by adding comments (especially not @ someone)? That's a different thing...
- timf 18y agoThis company sent a lady flowers after she announced on twitter that someone stood her up: http://blog.mrtweet.net/how-freshbooks-built-an-army-of-evangelists-starting-from-one-special-tweet http://blog.mrtweet.net/how-freshbooks-built-an-army-of-evan...