Comments on: Getting Twitter

By: Craig Randall

Craig Randall — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:49:24 +0000

Touché, Dan. I’ve put the update right at the top above, now.

By: oaktowner

oaktowner — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:05:35 +0000

Did you really just write a post about your Twitter account and NOT put your Twitter name in it? How are your blog readers supposed to follow you?

By: Craig Randall

Craig Randall — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:06:57 +0000

Better to be a “twitnot” (I guess), Matt, than a twit.

Recalling the notion of a neutral point of view from Everything Is Miscellaneous and also the realities of online communities, I think it’s important to distinguish the implication of NPOV to those who actively contribute (engage) from those who passively observe (lurk). The less you engage in realizing a NPOV, the more risk you assume in agreeing with and/or adding to its outcomes.

By: Matt Hessinger

Matt Hessinger — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:44:13 +0000

[Full disclosure: I'm one of the architecture twitnots Craig called out in his post. ]

People are putting out an incredible amount of content, through all sorts of Web 2.0 channels. Being able to monitor it, and respond is important. In addition, you may find yourself responding to things that you can’t believe warrant a response. Does Social Computing abdicate all responsibility for quality? Accuracy? Thoroughness? I have read many informal posts, etc. that, while I felt they left much to be desired, garnered a community response elevating them to much higher levels (say, for example, requests to re-syndicate, publish, etc…giving them more weight). Not a single one of these would stand up to a level of accuracy and quality that I would expect to be a minimum. Mix twitter in (I have started to see “tweets” quoted), and what do you have? I am not sure.

What I do know is that I would prefer not to open myself up to ad hoc, ad hominem attacks. I would rather keep as much of my opinions (and my private life, and surely my bathroom habits) out of the mainstream. I want to live in the Web 2.0 world (and beyond), but also want to apply some rigor to my choices in how I live in that world.

- I DON’T use FaceBook (yet), but I DO get its value.
- I DO use LinkedIn (and make almost all of my profile public: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhessinger)
- I probably WON’T tweet anytime soon…but I will keep an eye on it.

Finally, Craig, you consistently exceed my quality bar…keep it coming.

By: Craig Randall

Craig Randall — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:22:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Wilhelm. Yes, #hashtags are useful. For example, I've been observing #lrnchat as a way to better correlate a highly distributed virtual tweet-up--also accompanied by a dedicated blog.

By: Wilhelm

Wilhelm — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:45:04 +0000

Hello,

I began using Twitter a few months ago, just in order to “talk” easily with friends.
As I’m used to tagging my tweets with keywords (#ecm #documentum for example), I begin tweeting in a professional way; following people/products linked with my work. (Even if I’m not yet an employee )

There is one thing I like about Twitter, is that there are a lot of applications to search, tweet, etc.
I use :
– Selective Twitter Status : to update my Facebook status by taging my tweets with #fb
– Snaptu : to follow and tweet on my mobile (Samsung Player Style)
– Twitxr : to automatically tweet a link to a photo when I upload it on twitxr.com (there are also gateway for facebook, flickr, Picassa.. and it’s free )

There is also an interesting article (in French) dealing with “How to make technology watch thanks to twitter” : http://www.atlantic-management.fr/blog/index.php?post/2009/04/09/Sideline-%3A-loutil-ultime-pour-la-veille-sur-Twitter

That explains how Sideline, http://sideline.yahoo.com, can be easily used to follow anyone’s tweets thanks to custom search, etc.