Are any of the readers of this blog using Twitter? Is there even much awareness of what it is? If you are using it, what do you think.
I think lawyers are too verbose for a 140 character format.
update: 140 characters, not 130 words…
Twitter?
August 24th, 2008 @ 6:08 pm - by NMC · 14 Comments
Filed Under: Herald & Examiner
Lord, somet’ing else I never heard of. Oh well.
I just started hearing about twittering a couple of weeks ago and just today happened on a blog that offers it “during those times I am not blogging” for an update on the Dem convention. I’m ‘fraid I’m too far gone for more than than the web and cell phones but would like to know more about it (how/why) just ’cause.
Don’t use it, but have heard of it for about the last year & half. Here’s a better description than I could give:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
I confess that I can’t see a legal or marketing use for it. I also don’t have the ego to assume that others want to know what I’m doing every minute.
Testing testing
Falls under the rubric TMI.
Too Much Information
I used it for all of 2 days when I signed up a few months ago.
I understand how it could be useful, but no friends or acquaintances of mine were using it. Besides, I’m not going to update it every 15 minutes and find stuff like that annoying.
I don’t use twitter but have several friends who do and love it. I am not sure of a practical use for it … yet. I hear people in newsrooms use it to let others know what they are working on etc, but there aren’t many people I know who use it.
Just curious NMC, why the question? Are you thinking of adding it to FOLO?
I encountered a couple of places. In one, a law firm marketing person (yech!) who among other things does marketing and design work for law blogs, including Rossmillers, was saying that it was a big boon in marketing. That person was making a major point that it seemed not-that-useful but turned out to be very useful, and I couldn’t really tell from the description.
I’d also encountered it (in a not very impressive implementation) in Slate’s Olympic coverage. it seemed like lede sentences without the stories, or half-assed live blogging, or some combination of both.
So I was curious. I think I don’t need another electronic “gadget” to babysit, particularly giving the less- than- overwhelming reaction here.
Short answer: Mebbe Ben Cole is right.
Is anyone other than me having a lot of problems with the software not thinking you’re logged in and suddenly not letting you comment?
Happening a lot to me.
I guess since updates can be constant people will return to your site more often.
I also think Twitter was the first to break the news of last months Cali quake. But I am with Cole and NMC … TMI, or lede’s without story.
I just don’t see the point in having constant updates, unless that’s your job.
NMC 10, yes, that’s been happening to me in Firefox for at least four days now. Doesn’t happen in Safari. Have you switched to IE or some other browser to see if you get it there too?
Just when I thought the glitches might be all Firefox-related, I’m hearing that some folks getting the Java/cookies one were using IE when it happened. Very puzzling.
As for Twitter: Naw, we got enough to say grace over already.
It’s really just another social network thing. I can see where it could be useful I guess in a newsroom but really, AIM works just as well. There’s all these new fancy chat programs but AIM (and no you don’t need AOL to use it) is free and allows you to text cell phones, trade files, photos, etc. I use at work to tell my office when I’m out if there’s breaking news or that I’m e-mailing something over to them on deadline, etc.If anyone wants to chit-chat who uses AIM, my screen name is “ajabfl”
Twitter seems too much like “chatting” and instant messaging for it to have much appeal for me. I do think it continues the dumbing-down of social intercourse that began when we stopped writing long letters with quill pens. And hey, you kids get off my lawn!