Comments on: Comscore: Twitter Traffic Explodes

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:44:44 +0000

Sally I think some of this is just about personal style. I’d predict we’ll see three key applications emerge for most people who spend a lot of time online:

Google for search
Facebook for personal info sharing
Twitter for public info sharing

I think Twitter is (slowly) replacing all but personal emails as a way to send and get targeted info while keeping out the spam.

By: Sally Janavicius

Sally Janavicius — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:04:54 +0000

I’m with Paul – I just can’t get hooked on Twitter. I’m a Facebook fenatic and love how great it’s been to reconnect with people I’ve not been in touch with for more than 20 years. Sorry Twitter – Facebook is keeping my loyalty!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:01:03 +0000

Whatever reservations I have about Twitter, I must say my exposure to blogging via Joe Duck & the Kim episode convinced me it is a fascinating and potentially very useful communication tool. Numerous times when endeavoring to solve a problem or retrieve some obscure factoid about something, I have found said solution/answer on a blog.

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:51:08 +0000

Twitter, however, seems nothing more than a glorified chat room. It has lots of content, but most of it strikes me as extraordinarily superficial and useless

Exactly correct Paul, but I see those attributes as the aspects of Twitter that make it something of a watershed in Social Media.

Most of our existing media landscape is superficial and largely useless, but Twitter brings that to the entire community in a very accessible fashion.

As a (pseudo?) intellectual type guy I’d prefer to see blogging take root as the social media mechanism of choice where we all expressed our ideas in greater detail and with more eloquence than you are likely to find at Twitter, but that ain’t gonna happen. Twitter, like democracy, is not perfect but it’s the best we’ve got in terms of participatory online society. That is certainly interesting, and I think that may be revolutionary.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:47:26 +0000

I have to tell you Joe, I am utterly underwhelmed by Twitter. Of course, a geriatric dinosaur like me probably would be, but I have joined Facebook and found it useful – reconnecting with friends and classmates from decades ago, sharing info. and resources on a variety of issues with them.

Twitter, however, seems nothing more than a glorified chat room. It has lots of content, but most of it strikes me as extraordinarily superficial and useless. I guess I am one of those technophobes who just doesn’t “get it”, but the allure of Twitter is lost on me.