I've been finding the Twitter phenomenon truly baffling. Why would I care to post an up-to-the-minute timeline of my life? Why would I care to follow such a timeline of someone else? And yet, lots of seemingly intelligent people are participating in this, and seem to think that it's pretty cool, and, dare I say it, USEFUL. I'm not sure I need yet another thing to fill my already-too-busy time, and posting updates to a website so that strangers can read it just seems somewhat exhibitionist. Even more exhibitionist than having a blog.
But even weirder, it seems it's supposed to be keeping your friends appraised of what's going on in your life, without the inconvenience of actual interpersonal interaction.
Dunno. Perhaps I'll give it a try, but I really can't see myself sticking with this for more than a few seconds.
Just one more way for people to "publish" themselves. It is the new "ME" generation after all. Don't you want to share about "ME"?? But seriously, there are a few ways to make it useful. See: http://lifehacker.com/software/twitter/twitter-for-work-244991.php and http://lifehacker.com/software/productivity/how-to-use-twitter-productively-235626.php for examples. Of course it could be used in business to keep track of projects / processes / people. Or it could be just one more way technology invades our lives. :-)
And of course for your entertainment pleasure there is: http://twittervision.com/ and http://twittermap.com/maps for you to keep track of everyone all of the time!
You would think people are busy enough eh ... I think this is way too time consuming
Whenever I see a solution searching this desperately for problems, I'm not likely to put a whole lot of faith in its staying power. Another case where invention is trying to be the mother of necessity.
...ents twitter So, it appears that I was wrong. I can deal with that.I tend to pick up Twitter during a conference, because it's a useful way to k...