Why I started using twitter
First of all, this interesting podcast with twitter co-founder Evan Williams (and co-founder of Blogger.com) made me sign up:
Things I learned:
#1: Twitter is so freakin’ easy. It just answers one simple question: What are you doing?
#2: Twitter is like mini-blogging. Because its so easy that I can do it whereever I am via SMS, I twitter more often than I write blog posts (= more content for my blog via the twitter-widget)
#3: Evan does what he is passionate about and EATS ITS OWN DOGFOOD (= one important success factor of both twitter and blogger.com)
#4: I am definitely no early adopter (since I started blogging in august 2006 and twittering in april 2007). I have to be convinced and see real value before I try something new. Thats an interesting personal insight :-).
Example of twitter power-usage:
Robert Scoble asked his 2500+ twitter-friends what tools he should install on his new MacBookPro. The 2500+ friends received an SMS/IM/RSS-alert with this question an sent Robert dozens of tips in just a couple of minutes. Thats value!
PS: I’m sure you already saw my twitter-widget in my sidebar :-).
Tags: calacaniscast, evan williams, robert scoble, twitter
Categories: Entrepreneurship
April 10th, 2007 at 18:26
to me, the question appears : what for? basically I already know that people are drinking, sitting in the sun, working or taking a shit on the toilet — what’s the value add of such information?
already in blogs you get nonsense, unfiltered information & I don’t think twitter is really a cool idea, it’s just SMS gone mad …
April 10th, 2007 at 19:22
Tom, that’s an excellent question I asked myself very often before I started twittering. For me as a writer it’s a way to express myself and to add content for my blog. For me as a reader it’s a way to stay in tough with people all over the world on a much personal scale. And yes, oftentimes it’s just SMS gone mad. That’s why I turned off SMS-notifications.
April 12th, 2007 at 09:26
I have put together five guidlines how to become more efficient. One is: “communication reduction”. this is rooted in the insight that probably 80% of communication will be worthless the other day, so adding a lag to processing information might save quite some time. for me twittering just sounds like getting a lot of garbage-information without a specific target audience.
August 3rd, 2007 at 21:05
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