Comments on: Shhh, no one is on Twitter http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/ Exploring the 2010 Web Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:20:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Online PR technology trends | Sally Falkow | The Leading Edge » Blog Archive » Even Journalists are using Twitter http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99112 Online PR technology trends | Sally Falkow | The Leading Edge » Blog Archive » Even Journalists are using Twitter Tue, 06 May 2008 00:33:13 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4201#comment-99112 [...] an active Twitter user if they want to have a meaningful career? Even though Twitter is supposedly still a below-the-radar service? Well, yea, kinda. But for more – and more varied – reasons than you [...] [...] an active Twitter user if they want to have a meaningful career? Even though Twitter is supposedly still a below-the-radar service? Well, yea, kinda. But for more – and more varied – reasons than you [...]

]]> By: Dan Keldsen http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99151 Dan Keldsen Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:25 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4201#comment-99151 Incidentally, I thought I was one of the only strange ones in Boston to be using Twitter, until I went to a Knowledge Management session at Bentley College a few weeks ago, and 30-50% of the KM people (most of them older than me, and I'm an Apple ][+ kinda guy) had heard of and were using Twitter. I was flabbergasted to be honest. As a result of twittering, found out one fellow works not 2 blocks from me. This isn't just a Silly-Con Valley phenomenon. ;) Incidentally, I thought I was one of the only strange ones in Boston to be using Twitter, until I went to a Knowledge Management session at Bentley College a few weeks ago, and 30-50% of the KM people (most of them older than me, and I’m an Apple ][+ kinda guy) had heard of and were using Twitter.

I was flabbergasted to be honest. As a result of twittering, found out one fellow works not 2 blocks from me. This isn’t just a Silly-Con Valley phenomenon. ;)

]]> By: Dan Keldsen http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99150 Dan Keldsen Thu, 01 May 2008 19:27:54 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4201#comment-99150 Twitter is no more or less of a time waster than e-mail, IM, blogging, reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic. Once you start to get a following, like on any 'social network' then you can do awfully useful things like quickly poll the crowd on simple things like "is website x.com down for anyone else? (typepad for example)" to feedback on new web designs, what cell phone to buy out of a handful of choices, etc.. The virtual watercooler effect is pretty handy, and doesn't require firing up a "room" in any sort of IM/IRQ/ICQ-style parlance. You step in and out of the flow as you like. But Twitter certainly does bad things for you if you lean at all towards ADD! :) Twitter is no more or less of a time waster than e-mail, IM, blogging, reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic.

Once you start to get a following, like on any ’social network’ then you can do awfully useful things like quickly poll the crowd on simple things like “is website x.com down for anyone else? (typepad for example)” to feedback on new web designs, what cell phone to buy out of a handful of choices, etc..

The virtual watercooler effect is pretty handy, and doesn’t require firing up a “room” in any sort of IM/IRQ/ICQ-style parlance. You step in and out of the flow as you like.

But Twitter certainly does bad things for you if you lean at all towards ADD! :)

]]> By: Kasey http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99149 Kasey Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:23:06 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4201#comment-99149 I live in the Midwest (Ohio). The first time I heard of Twitter it sounded dumb. I signed up, though. Since then: -I recruited my entire office to sign up and use Twitter on a daily basis -My workmates post updates about our clients' successes and updates about our software on Twitter (shameless promotion: http://twitter.com/donordrive) -I got my MOM to sign up and use Twitter on a semi-regular basis -I've met new people from my area -I've attended more local events and got other people to attend You're saying Twitter isn't useful? It's sure working out for me. I live in the Midwest (Ohio). The first time I heard of Twitter it sounded dumb. I signed up, though.

Since then:
-I recruited my entire office to sign up and use Twitter on a daily basis
-My workmates post updates about our clients’ successes and updates about our software on Twitter (shameless promotion: http://twitter.com/donordrive)
-I got my MOM to sign up and use Twitter on a semi-regular basis
-I’ve met new people from my area
-I’ve attended more local events and got other people to attend

You’re saying Twitter isn’t useful? It’s sure working out for me.

]]> By: Twitter and more disconnection - Jeff's Junk http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99148 Twitter and more disconnection - Jeff's Junk Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:06:16 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4201#comment-99148 [...] gang's comments about how "nobody uses .NET," but reverse awareness is also getting out of hand. This post from Scoble is one of countless about Twitter, and it's hopelessly out of touch. The comments on the post seem to concur. Twitter has become [...] [...] gang’s comments about how “nobody uses .NET,” but reverse awareness is also getting out of hand. This post from Scoble is one of countless about Twitter, and it’s hopelessly out of touch. The comments on the post seem to concur. Twitter has become [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/28/shhh-no-one-is-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99147 Ryan Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:42:37 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4201#comment-99147 Signed up at Twitter a few months ago out of curiosity, but after spending some time there, I simply can't figure out what to do with it or what problem is solves for me. Nobody I know uses it. Haven't gone back to the site since. Same story with Facebook. I signed up a year ago, but probably logged in twice in my life. I can't figure out why people use it, but they apparently do. Signed up at Twitter a few months ago out of curiosity, but after spending some time there, I simply can’t figure out what to do with it or what problem is solves for me. Nobody I know uses it. Haven’t gone back to the site since.

Same story with Facebook. I signed up a year ago, but probably logged in twice in my life. I can’t figure out why people use it, but they apparently do.

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