Comments on: Top 67 Dangerous Life Uses Of Twitter http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Join In The Chant at Dave Knapik http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-83 Join In The Chant at Dave Knapik Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:01:51 +0000 http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-83 [...] it count if I Twitter about the environment, or is the extent to which I saved the environment directly proportional to [...] [...] it count if I Twitter about the environment, or is the extent to which I saved the environment directly proportional to [...]

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]]> By: Dave Knapik http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-56 Dave Knapik Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:49:53 +0000 http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-56 In response to Elwyn (or should I be saying, "@elwyn"?), I'd have to say that Twitter is great, perhaps, precisely because it places so few restrictions on what you can do with it. I think it only tells people to post about "what you are doing" as a suggestion to help avoid the paralysis that can sometimes come with too much choice. Because it its use is so open to interpretation, you could use it as you suggest, but I think Facebook is more suited to that task and makes it easier to manage. You can configure Facebook to be largely autonomous from you in terms of how it informs the people you know about the content you're producing. Posting about everything you write and every photoset you create on Flickr, manually in Twitter, would get old fast. I read your recent post at Tech Without Wires, <a href="http://www.techwithoutwires.com/50226711/what_is_twitter_all_about.php" rel="nofollow">What Is Twitter All About</a>, and in it you say: <blockquote>Twitter is a good place to summarize what you do in a day. Think of it as marketing yourself through linking what you do.</blockquote> While there's no improper way to use the service, I wouldn't follow someone who was using the service this way simply because I'd find it boring. I don't mind a link or two to something one writes showing up in their Twitter feed, as I do that myself. It's nice to tell your followers on Twitter that you've written something, as they are probably following you because they think you say interesting things. But if you're only using the service as a marketing tool, why would anyone follow your tweets in the first place? That would be like signing up for Advertising 2.0: me-generated advertising about me. Above all, I think too much emphasis gets placed on things in our world having a business use, and that goes beyond software. Business is a part of life, not the other way around. In response to Elwyn (or should I be saying, “@elwyn”?), I’d have to say that Twitter is great, perhaps, precisely because it places so few restrictions on what you can do with it. I think it only tells people to post about “what you are doing” as a suggestion to help avoid the paralysis that can sometimes come with too much choice.

Because it its use is so open to interpretation, you could use it as you suggest, but I think Facebook is more suited to that task and makes it easier to manage. You can configure Facebook to be largely autonomous from you in terms of how it informs the people you know about the content you’re producing. Posting about everything you write and every photoset you create on Flickr, manually in Twitter, would get old fast.

I read your recent post at Tech Without Wires, What Is Twitter All About, and in it you say:

Twitter is a good place to summarize what you do in a day. Think of it as marketing yourself through linking what you do.

While there’s no improper way to use the service, I wouldn’t follow someone who was using the service this way simply because I’d find it boring. I don’t mind a link or two to something one writes showing up in their Twitter feed, as I do that myself. It’s nice to tell your followers on Twitter that you’ve written something, as they are probably following you because they think you say interesting things. But if you’re only using the service as a marketing tool, why would anyone follow your tweets in the first place? That would be like signing up for Advertising 2.0: me-generated advertising about me.

Above all, I think too much emphasis gets placed on things in our world having a business use, and that goes beyond software. Business is a part of life, not the other way around.

]]> By: Elwyn Jenkins http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-55 Elwyn Jenkins Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:51:45 +0000 http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-55 Suddenly I get it, Twitter is a neat way to stitch together what you do online. Point to each site where you blog, and any other items that are being lodged in a day on other systems -- like Facebook -- so pointing to everything I do is a neat summary for followers to see all the things I do on the net in a day. Suddenly I get it, Twitter is a neat way to stitch together what you do online. Point to each site where you blog, and any other items that are being lodged in a day on other systems — like Facebook — so pointing to everything I do is a neat summary for followers to see all the things I do on the net in a day.

]]> By: Rik Abel http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-52 Rik Abel Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:40:00 +0000 http://www.daveknapik.com/2007/07/27/top-67-dangerous-life-uses-of-twitter/#comment-52 dave, you've just inspired me to try to emit dangerously hilarious tweets MUCH more often. with regard to twitter's perceived lack of a business model, dave winer helpfully explains what twitter is (<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/07/27/whatTwitterIs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/07/27/whatTwitterIs.html</a>) and points out that twitter itself doesn't actually necessarily NEED a business model (like i could give a flying one whether it does or not...) since it is part of an ecosystem which will find its own uses for twitter and doubtless numerous successful business models. wow, i'm entirely bored of that question. anyway anyway anyway... dave, you’ve just inspired me to try to emit dangerously hilarious tweets MUCH more often. with regard to twitter’s perceived lack of a business model, dave winer helpfully explains what twitter is (http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/07/27/whatTwitterIs.html) and points out that twitter itself doesn’t actually necessarily NEED a business model (like i could give a flying one whether it does or not…) since it is part of an ecosystem which will find its own uses for twitter and doubtless numerous successful business models. wow, i’m entirely bored of that question. anyway anyway anyway…

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