Comments on: Do you Tweet?

By: scantron

scantron — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:25:11 +0000

I’m addicted. At first it was slow because it seems like I am always the first in my city/group of friends to join the latest trends. So I sit there waiting for everyone to jump on board. Same with Friendster, MySpace, Facebook and now I’m seeing it with Twitter and Tumblr.

I use it for lifestreaming and to keep my friends updated on projects I am working on. I have a personal account plus accounts for all my projects so I don’t overload people with updates on things they aren’t interested in.

Twitter is easy and convenient and you don’t have to spend a lot of time on it (where as writing a blog post can be a bit more time consuming).

By: Erin Mogul

Erin Mogul — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:20:23 +0000

That cartoon is awesome! Love the site….what a great resource!

By: charles

charles — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:19:47 +0000

twitter can be very useful, but my perspective is that of a person who reads the tweets of web video industry thought leaders and just people who are generally interesting.

also use it to find out about some parties or events that are going on from time to time.

not many people follow me, yet…
http://twitter.com/charles_b

definitely agree with artsmonkey1, the humor on twitter is hilarious. even better, the notorious twitter fights.

By: Artsmonkey1

Artsmonkey1 — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:03:48 +0000

I love twitter for it’s shortness and for the humour it brings out in people – I’ve discovered all sorts of things through twitter that I wouldn’t have otherwise known about – discounts to conferences, free books, picked up new words like ‘tuttle’. Will I still be using it a year from now – maybe – it’s a play thing, a toy for me and i love the way people use it differently. It’s creative.

By: Agnes Varnum

Agnes Varnum — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:55:46 +0000

I use an application called Twitterfeed, which automatically posts links to my new blog posts to Twitter, though I’m not sure if this has actually driven any traffic toward my blog. I also set it up so that my Twitters update my Facebook status automatically, so presumably, I could use Twitter only for those short updates that make far-flung friends and colleagues feel they know what I’m up to while not… wait for it… frittering my time away. Gosh I’m funny. I think it can be worthwhile, but I like have a fairly streamlined process so I’m not updating in several different places manually. I love your Twitters Ingrid

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:31:04 +0000

It’s fun and worth it just for BBC Breaking but some people do seem to in=sist on telling you what they’re having for lunch. We’ve used i for a game and there’s a cafe that tweets it’s daily specials (I wish more would take this up). Similar to Daneeta, I also use it to update Facebook status. Check out:

http://www.twitterlocal.net for, well, local feeds
http://www.tweetscan.com/ for following specific keywords instead
http://www.tweetclouds.com/ for checking what people twitter people out before following them

By: Daneeta Loretta Saft

Daneeta Loretta Saft — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:22:55 +0000

I was sKeptical about Twittering. But, this is how I use it. I can text to Twitter, and it’s posted on my blog using a widget from Twitter. That gives my readers a minute by minute update of what’s going on with the film in between regular blog posts. And it gives me mobile flexibility. It doesn’t drive a lot of traffic to my blog because I don’t have many people following the Twitter account, but it does provide a service to my regular blog readers.