All A Flutter Over Lives Changed By Twitter
Isa Twitter making us lazy? Better put, are we being encouraged and enabled to read/write less due to the success of this social platform? Some critics seem to be pushing in this direction it seems.
Others still, would point out that Twitter is merely a tool, which reflects where its users are at in life at any given moment. So if the tweets are mundane and silly, that is hardly something we can blame Twitter for now is it? Clearly, Twitter is a networking tool as well, but it allows us to communicate without as much unneeded small talk.
Speaking for myself, I find that I use Twitter both for work and play…often within seconds from one tweet to the next. In a big regard, I find it blurring the lines between work and play in my day. How about you? Is Twitter a boon to your world or a curse?
6 Comments
Hans
June 5th, 2009
at 12:39am
I had somehow more expectations of interactions and/or discussions. The level of comments, replies feels very flat-bottomed. I think Twitter is not speeding up enough to improve the user experience and in a way I am now betting on Google Wave and turn maybe back to the much improved Friendfeed.
Where are the “I like it” + “Comment” function, the embed of TN-images, pipes for different receivers. After a good start my experience with Twitter slowed down, still open for improvements
Bbox
June 5th, 2009
at 12:40am
Reading less? No WAY! I haven’t been turned on to reading so many articles all over the place ever. In fact, I think that I’ll have to stop loading up my app so that I can reduce my reading and writing in response. It’s a little like how I need to hold myself back from reading this site too often.
Bizurke (Andrew)
June 5th, 2009
at 12:41am
Twitter has changed my daily life without question. Something a friend told me a while ago is that he uses twitter like an interactive rss feed reader. I like that idea. I use it to keep tabs on friends, make new friends, and more. But probably more importantly I now get my news, usually much faster, from the twitterati. I know more of what’s going on in my town, in my state, and around the world. I know where the party is going to be on saturday, I just know more. I am better informed because of twitter but I am also constantly opening new tabs in my browser and filling it with links I clicked saying “oh I’ll read that later” eventually I reach information overload, close the browser, don’t save the tabs, and zone out to a show on hulu or something. Lately though, I can’t not pay attention to twitter no matter how hard I try. It’s becoming more my life than a part of my life and that does kind of scare me..
also.. I got a link to this on twitter and never ever would have seen it otherwise. As a web designer/developer/marketer and all around geek twitter enables me to learn more and keep up with trends I never would have known about otherwise.
Arianna O'Dell
June 5th, 2009
at 12:49am
As a marketer for a new web start up I have found Twitter to be an extremely useful tool for letting others know about our product. We have been able to use Twitter to communicate business updates as well as offer support/help to our users.
In addition, being new to the Seattle community, Twitter has enabled me to make connections that would have been very hard to form via email or cold calling. Twitter has helped our business in so many ways and in such a short period of time.
Would recommend to anyone, though I do admit sometimes there is much ‘noise’ clouding up the status feeds. — But when sorted through, so much great information!
-Arianna O’Dell
Founder/Marketer
http:www.flybymusic.com
http:www.twitter.com/r_e_on_a
Michael Flux
June 5th, 2009
at 1:02am
Hmm… I would say its an even split between work and play for me. On one hand, I have met quite a few very interesting people via it, a few of those people have even turned into pretty good business related acquaintances…
On the other, its a pretty valuable business tool too. Even with how little links to my own site I post there, it still manages to generate almost 10% of all the visits so I’m quite happy about that.
One complaint I do have about it, is that once you’re following any more then say a hundred people, it becomes next to impossible to keep an eye on everyone. One thing I wish would be available, is the ability to split people into groups and keep an eye on the groups independently of one another – like you’re able to in TweetDeck.
Michael
Markus Zeller
June 5th, 2009
at 1:13am
Twitter enriches my life, because the people I do follow really post intersting things and I get in contact with people I would never have known without it.