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Correct Twitter Use
- byGordon on31st January, 2009 inOpinions
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I'll try and address these points briefly.
@Spode. Maybe, I'm unfamiliar of the service. Dan has pointed out some differences but I believe the key is BRAND. Twitter has the brand and that is key. eBay offers a poor service (getting poorer with each year) but no other auction site gets a look in. That is the value (and for the consumer - curse) of familiarity.@Guest - I don't believe Facebook and Twitter are even remotely connected. The "Twitter is mass Facebook status updates for your friends" I believe to be utter - well - shite. The difference is Facebook has a certain 'distance' to it, with it I feel I get to know something about the LIVES of my friends on it and also the school friends I haven't seen in years but many - if not most - of my Facebook friends I have no desire to interact with. Facebook is largerly voyeuristic.
By contrast, Twitter is INTERACTIVE. Sure, there are professional sites simply rehashing their RSS feeds but they are largely catastrophic failures when you consider their number of followers when proportional to their site's web audience (the followers for 'gordonkelly' alone, for example, are 3x the size of the TrustedReviews Twitter profile - a site which has almost 2.5m unqiue vistors per month and nearly 14m page reads).
No, it is not about saying "I polished my car today" it is about interaction. It is a great online IM brothel amongst your friends/respected colleagues or others and...
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Correct Twitter Use
- byGordon on30th January, 2009 inOpinions
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Time to chip in here.
I'm not going to go into quite the same level of depth as Dan, but I'd like to address this Twitter usage issue as I think I see it from a slightly different viewpoint: it's called natural evolution. The clear split between personal and professional users.In one corner you have the original Twitter message: "What are you doing?" Admirably backed up by a recent post from Twitter king Stephen Fry (http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2009/01/29/twitter) where he declares: "For me Twittering is not a commercial or PR activity, it’s a fun and fascinating way to interact with all kinds of people who have so much to say. Since the primary function of Twitter is to answer the question “what you are doing?” my tweets will sometimes, obviously, involve news of publications or openings or events. Just be assured I am not using Twitter to advertise!"
Thanks Stephen by this is naive. You couldn't manage your 100,000 followers without the assistance of your army of agents, secretaries and general helpers. After all, you may only be using Twitter in a social/interactive way but to allow this your life is being professionally managed in the background.
Against this you have the undeniable fact that Twitter is an incredible mind hive/thought shower/[insert cringe worthy marketing term here]. For example, about 70% of my 300-ish followers are fellow journalists and PRs. This doesn't bother me, in fact I quite like it as a giant online resource. I can throw out questions and expect...
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