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April 02, 2007
Drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid
Much to my chagrin, I joined Twitter last week so that I can find out what my co-workers ate for lunch or what they’re listening to on their iPods.
Am I the only one who’s not officially sold on Twitter? (I already blog, have a Flickr account, mingle with former classmates on Facebook… I don’t know how much me there is to go around on the Internet.) Maybe not.
Andrew Keen called out Twitter’s hype in a post on The Great Seduction:
- Calling Twitter a "mini-blog" is like describing a stunted flea as a "mini-flea". There's nothing intellectually more insignificant than a blog and Twitter is simply a multi platform bulletin board which enables people to express themselves.
Following that thought, the Spokesman Review (subscription site) had this perfect review of Twitter:
- Remember the Seinfeld episode in which Jerry and George pitch NBC "a show about nothing"? At one point Costanza asks a network executive, ‘What did you do today?’
- ‘I got up and came to work,’ the exec replies.
- ‘There's a show!’ George exclaims. ‘That's a show.’
That's also a Twitter.
I can see why the site is addicting (constantly wanting to know what your friends are doing, the current theme of blogosphere), but if instant messages, text messages, and “old-school” phone calls just aren’t enough, I don’t know if Twitter will satisfy all your needs. After all, there are just some things my friends are doing that I’d rather NOT know about.
Posted by Alicia Dorset at April 2, 2007 10:37 AM
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I can't even get interested enough to test Twitter. Really, it sounds like some sort of Orwellian nightmare to me. I don't want people to know what I'm doing at every moment of the day!
I'm not sure if I have even sent 10 text messages total in my life yet.
Posted by: COD at April 2, 2007 11:29 AM
In the couple weeks I've been a "Twit," I've found one useful instance (help on a Gmail question). Other than that, I'm not sure what the real value is.
Twitting is good to:
> Call for help with a question.
> Live blogging (easier than real blogging liveblogging).
> Maybe if you have a group and needs to reach all members easily and quickly.
> Any other?
Mike
Posted by: Mike Driehorst at April 2, 2007 12:49 PM
Twitter is the center of the blogosphere's ozonhole.
Posted by: Kai at April 2, 2007 01:38 PM
I can't even TRY twitter @ work.... Blocked by the firewall... along with just about every other Web 2.0 website...SERIOUSLY!
Posted by: ABluhm at May 7, 2007 03:04 PM
