Mar
29
2007
Still not atwitter over Twitter
Posted in the Category of In the News and Social Media
Watch this CBS interview with Robert Scoble (apparently filmed at his new office at Podtech.net in San Jose). It's the best explanation I've seen so far of what Twitter is and how it works. As always, Scoble is in his best self-deprecating form.
The video shows how Twitter is a mashup of blogging, text messaging, and Google Maps.
"It's stupid, lame and small... It's real addictive... Three weeks ago I had 90 (Twitter) followers. Today I have more than 2,000 followers."
- Robert Scoble in the CBS interview
I get that it's the haiku of blogging (only 140 characters) but I still don't feel a desperate urge to twitter. There's the privacy thing, for one thing. Do I really want to tell you when I'm brushing my teeth?
Are you twittering?
Is this just the next GTHOOT (got to have one of those)?? Leave your Comment below. Would love to hear from you.
My Twitter page here (debbieweil).
[Update: I removed the twitter box from this entry as an "authentication" window kept popping up -- really annoying.]
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Charles Bricman said on March 29, 2007 at 06:20 AM
You can tell me when you’re brushing your teeth, if you want, Debbie, but I’m sorry: it doesn’t really matter for me...
And that’s the other side of the privacy question: the reader is not necessarily interested on the “messages” of those “haikus”.
I personnally think that “tools” like Twitter are rather toys. I wrote that (in French) on my new blog a few weeks ago: http://blog.pickme.be/?p=77.
Debbie Weil said on March 29, 2007 at 08:11 AM
Charles,
Mum’s the word on the toothbrushing. You won’t hear a twitter out of me about that or much else. But rest assured… I do brush.
Mario Vellandi said on March 29, 2007 at 01:04 PM
Debbie,
When they try and tell us how to use it ("what r u doing?") it becomes dumb. I don’t use TW, but I may use it someday for private group instant messages.
Judy Gombita said on April 2, 2007 at 08:53 AM
(First, off, the “Authentication Required” pop-up box for your Twitter account is in and of itself annoying.....)
As I’ve commented to a few people (offline, offTwitter), I keep thinking of that book that came out a few years ago (which was mentioned on Sex in the City). Here is the Twitter version:
“I’m Just Not That In to You”
From a micro perspective, that is.
Debbie Weil said on April 2, 2007 at 03:12 PM
Judy,
I’m taking the twitter box off—I saw that authentication thing too. Very annoying.
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