Twitter has suddenly exploded onto the mainstream, why this very morning on a BBC News report from a BBC road show we were told we could follow what was happening on Twitter and Facebook. But what actually is Twitter? Well its micro-blogging et cetera but what does that really mean to the average idiot user? Like me.
To me Twitter, and micro-blogging in general, is what blogging itself started out as. A personal diary, a fast moving record of what was happening. Blogging has evolved though and has become a serious player in citizen journalism. The old lazy stereotype about a blog being a self-obsessed diary of boring details of someone else's life has gone (though some still persist with this accusation, though i doubt they have actually ever read anything like New Wars or John Hawks - two recent finds).
So as blogging has become "serious" then micro-blogging has stepped in and become the place for a fast moving stream of consciousness and things-to-check-out. If i look at my Twitter friends for example (using TwitBin of course, highly recommended for Firefox users) i can read Paul Bradshaw's comments on his Radio WM interview about... er... Twitter, find out the Prime Minister is holding a press conference after meeting the IMF (and wonder if any cheques were handed over), read a link about Starbucks instant coffee and find out one of my friends is finally watching Donnie Darko.
All short and to the point messages. Micro-blogging like blogging itself is evolving of course and the rate of evolution will increase now its hit the big time and it will be very interesting to monitor this. Especially the tension between old-skool tweets about what colour underpants people are wearing and more serious matters. So this is what Twitter means to me, finally. It took some time for me to work it out. But what does Twitter mean to you? Why not leave a comment below?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
So what is Twitter?
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So far Twitter is my preferred way to build up a professional/interest network and exchange ideas. It works better than Facebook or even LinkedIn because the focus is on what you think, not who you are. A profile such as you get on Facebook/LinkedIn is all very well if I want to know where you work and what your interests are; but if I want to access and discuss your ideas it's a pretty pitiful forum.
Plus, neither Facebook nor LinkedIn are places where I am comfortable with complete strangers getting in touch with me - it costs me my data to friend you, and as I'm not interested in your data it's an unfair exchange. On Twitter, it costs me virtually nothing to be followed - I'd already put the ideas "out there" - and I might well gain a lot from following someone even if I don't know them.
Yes that is a good point about the focus on what you think.
I do know that after i added a friend of a friend (no a real friend of a friend, this isn't a euphemism!) her tweets were quite revealing about her personality in a way i might not have discovered for a long time otherwise.
In a good way i hasten to add, well if you consider being a Star Trek fan good of course.
So what happened to the university Twitter account?
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i hope they keep twitter as simple as it is.
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