Twitter, tweeting and all things micro

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by sherrilynne
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I have been telling people for several months that Twitter will be the Facebook of 2008. And with each passing day I become more convinced.

My first Tech Talk column about Twitter was published last April when I said how boring it was, with constant tweets about what someone is eating and which socks they choose to wear on any particular day. I originally signed up more than a year ago, but did not find it too fascinating.A couple of months ago, a friend encouraged me to try again and I did. I found that a robust community has grown up around the tool in the intervening months and believe it is indeed the Next Big Thing.

I am not alone. US presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain can all be followed on Twitter. So too are the UK Labour Party, the Conservatives and 10 Downing Street — the last of which actually follows me on Twitter!

Facebook is about blogging, Twitter is about microblogging. Click here to read the rest of this Tech Talk column.

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5 Responses to “Twitter, tweeting and all things micro”

  1. Owen , on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 am Said:

    There’s a great post on TechCrunch about how Twitter has become an “Internet utility”:
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/22/twitter-may-not-have-to-care-about-uptime-any-longer/

    Oh .. and you can follow me on Twitter here:
    http://twitter.com/owenc

  2. leo , on April 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm Said:

    Either way you want to insure you have both ends covered.The business twitter account could be very useful for car dealers, for all dealers in fact.

  3. sherrilynne , on April 24th, 2008 at 6:35 pm Said:

    Leo, I think Twitter has potential to be abused by spammers. I hope that organisations continue to use it as a conversation tool, not to push deals and offers. How boring.

    Owen do you recognise the friend mentioned in my post?

  4. Nathan Pledger , on May 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am Said:

    I’m going to try it for a while. To be honest, I fail to see the point, other than publicising what I am doing which does have a hint of a smell of egotism.

    But, I guess it depends on if what you do is interesting. I’m going to “Twitter” during TT, because this is an exciting period in my work and I want to see if I get feedback, leads or sales by virtue of my twittering on this years TT Live!

  5. sherrilynne , on May 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 am Said:

    Nathan, send me your Twitter address and I’ll follow you.

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