Reply to: Twitter

[Pogle]

Do you know there's one place where this has not happened?

And its the good old tube.

Dead silence all the way for the most part and long may it continue.

I blame northeners. They like to witter and prattle about nothing.

Pot Kettle Black

[voodooflux]

To each his own, but I like Twitter. By following the right people, by choosing carefully, doing your research, there's nothing like it for staying on top of industry trends and understanding the motives of the top people in your game.

I wouldn't be so quick to write Twitter off just because, like the rest of t'interweb, it's 98% rubbish to 2% brilliance.

Well said that man, although I suspect the signal to noise ratio is even lower than you suggest. I've made some useful/interesting contacts via Twitter, and managed to blag myself onto the Microsoft BizSpark program via one in particular.

[realityhack]

Twitter isn't for everyone, in the same way bulletin boards or blogs aren't. Some people like the sound of their own tone of voice a little too much, others see too much noise to signal, some like to be passive observers - or active facebook/myspace stalkers.

To each his own, but I like Twitter. By following the right people, by choosing carefully, doing your research, there's nothing like it for staying on top of industry trends and understanding the motives of the top people in your game.

I wouldn't be so quick to write Twitter off just because, like the rest of t'interweb, it's 98% rubbish to 2% brilliance.

[bogeyman]

Twitter is good for business.

That is if your tweets are like a canary, rather than a crow.

HTH

Eh?

[AtW]

Twitter is good for business.

That is if your tweets are like a canary, rather than a crow.

HTH

[bogeyman]

i think it's something like the library i'm in right now, people have lost the ability to be alone with their thoughts and just need to talk or make some kind of pointless expression or fill their minds with rubbish all the flipping time!!! i'm so old...

You may be old (as am I) but you're completely right, Boudica.

Everyone under 35 seems to think they are so 'interesting' (or ought to be) that we should all follow their every movement 24/7.

When they are not broadcasting torrents of information about nothing, they are downloading or spazzing out on their iPods and mobile phones.

They never stop. There is no silence. No rest from the relentless 'information'.

[bogeyman]

What did he say?

Politicians do have to think about what we say... Too many Twits might make a twat.

Quite right!

[d000hg]

You don't become the next Google just by getting very rich. Twitter will lose popularity in the same way Facebook/Myspace will, as something else comes along. On the other hand, web-searching is a core feature OF the web rather than something people do ON the web.

[jmo21]

Twitter is currently becoming popular, and being valued in the billions of dollars, because of it's possibilities as a real time search engine for news and trends.

If they can find a good way to monetise it (corporate accounts, advertising, micro-payments) then it *may* become the next Google.

*shudder*
That all sounds horribly like marketing babble, apologies, and I'm a dev as well!

[d000hg]

Dave went up in my estimation for that unguarded comment and I suspect I am not alone in this.

What did he say?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Me, me, me, me.

I do it.



Well, sometimes I do.

I even have followers

[Doggy Styles]

Not me.

[sasguru]

i think it's something like the library i'm in right now, people have lost the ability to be alone with their thoughts and just need to talk or make some kind of pointless expression or fill their minds with rubbish all the flipping time!!! i'm so old...

Do you know there's one place where this has not happened?

And its the good old tube.

Dead silence all the way for the most part and long may it continue.

I blame northeners. They like to witter and prattle about nothing.

[sasguru]

Yeah - Twitter is a big TPD for the masses.

You mean I invented twittering?
Gah! Where's me royalties? mad

[Boudica]

i think it's something like the library i'm in right now, people have lost the ability to be alone with their thoughts and just need to talk or make some kind of pointless expression or fill their minds with rubbish all the flipping time!!! i'm so old...