Comments on: Twitter (part2) – my experiences

By: What is Twitter? « About communication

What is Twitter? « About communication — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:05:01 +0000

[...] that I have explained some more things about using Twitter on this blog before (please read [...]

By: Twitter - wie anfangen? « About communication

Twitter - wie anfangen? « About communication — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:57:59 +0000

[...] questions about Twitter from German speaking people. This is why I’d like to link back to my old post in English and then add a few things here before I repost the whole thing in German [...]

By: Annette

Annette — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:01:09 +0000

Hi Derek! You’re very welcome. Looking forward to see the edited version of your profile!

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:51:06 +0000

Very helpful advice, thanks Annette.

By: Annette

Annette — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:50:26 +0000

Hi Matthias and thanks for the hint! (Well, both of them )

Just to let you know that I’ve exchanged the link as yours didn’t lead there directly. Hope you don’t mind.

By: Matthias Schwenk

Matthias Schwenk — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:00:33 +0000

Clive Thompson’s article in the New York Times might be interesting in this context: http://tinyurl.com/5ahjfs
He’s on Twitter, too: http://twitter.com/pomeranian99

By: Annette

Annette — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:14:50 +0000

@Stephanie: You’re right. But if someone only posts about having coffee etc. I don’t think I’ll get interested in following them in the first place.

Which leads me to @nearvana:

Advantages? Sure! SMS cost money and emails are sender focussed – twitter doesn’t/isn’t.

1) Twitter doesn’t cost you anything extra (you’re already paying your online flatrate anyway).

2) Can you read emails that people you don’t know yet send to others you probably don’t know yet either about things you are interested in? Can you search for these emails somewhere? Nope! So you’ll never know about it and you’ll never find them this way.

On twitter you can find other people who are interested in the same things, read what they post and interact with them quickly and efficiently. As I said: it helps you to build up your very own specialists’ network.

On one condition: YOU have to start in the way I described in my blog. It won’t come to you all alone. Fill in your description with the keywords you want to be found by and let people know about your website or blog. They won’t contact you if they cannot identify you.

I didn’t believe it either but give it a serious try and you’ll see.

By: nearvana

nearvana — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:52:54 +0000

Ok, well I’m trying to get my head around it here. Whenever I put “status updates” on the web they are characterised by surreality or vacuousness. I doubt a lot of people will be interested by my revelations that I would like to have a bath with Alanis Morissette or if ice cubes have a form of DNA that we we just haven’t discovered yet.

And if I do have something interesting to share I can email or SMS people from my phone or from the web. Does Twitter have advantages over those two forms of communications?

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:55:02 +0000

“I rather follow people who share helpful and relevant information and interact with me. If someone only posts about drinking coffee or going shopping I don’t find that interesting. That might be okay if you use twitter privately. I don’t.”

I think that’s perfectly natural when you don’t know the person. When trying to enlarge your network through Twitter, you are going to go for people who have value-content in their streams.

However, this changes when you know the person. If the person posting about drinking coffee or going shopping happens to be somebody you met offline, had a nice chat with (it “clicked”) and you want to get to know them a bit more, then suddenly these irrelevant details become more valuable.