Comments on: Tweet tweet? http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/04/08/tweet-tweet/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:36:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Simon Dickson http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/04/08/tweet-tweet/#comment-292 Simon Dickson Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:49:45 +0000 http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/04/08/tweet-tweet/#comment-292 Twitter has only recently 'clicked' for me; but I pride myself on being able to 'call' a success fairly early, and Twitter is in that category. The news alerting thing is really handy, and I definitely see that growing; but you're right, it's mostly the human element: maintaining connections with friends and contacts, even if it's just the daily trivia. It keeps the relationships warm, if nothing else. Plus, several times I've used it to 'ask the audience', and got quality responses within minutes (or seconds, even). Feedback from Twitter was instrumental in deciding how we were going to cover the weekend's Progressive Governance summit, for example. There's probably a formula, which I hereby declare Simon's First Law of Twittering. 'Need to know' = important stuff on topics you don't really care about, plus minutiae on topics you really, really care about. That more or less sums up my use of Twitter. Twitter has only recently ‘clicked’ for me; but I pride myself on being able to ‘call’ a success fairly early, and Twitter is in that category.

The news alerting thing is really handy, and I definitely see that growing; but you’re right, it’s mostly the human element: maintaining connections with friends and contacts, even if it’s just the daily trivia. It keeps the relationships warm, if nothing else.

Plus, several times I’ve used it to ‘ask the audience’, and got quality responses within minutes (or seconds, even). Feedback from Twitter was instrumental in deciding how we were going to cover the weekend’s Progressive Governance summit, for example.

There’s probably a formula, which I hereby declare Simon’s First Law of Twittering. ‘Need to know’ = important stuff on topics you don’t really care about, plus minutiae on topics you really, really care about. That more or less sums up my use of Twitter.

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