I’m not a bird…
…I don’t twitter. But apparently several of you do. I’m curious why. It doesn’t really resonate with me — too much announcement, too little interaction, maybe? It seems like Facebook status on crack, with what is entered becoming a kind of social performance piece to up the entertainment value. It reminds me of the way AIM messages were used in college when everyone was logged on all the time, often either vaguely mysterious or highly uninformative. I got uncomfortable with that during my extended AIM hiatus in Scotland, and now the idea of updating people on my status even as often as I do on Facebook (which isn’t very) seems odd to me.
Thoughts?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
Comment by momentsmusicaux, yo — April 26, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
Argh, blog ate my comment!
I use twitter because some of my information science friends from my master’s program do as well. I update it with things that might be of interest to this group (although they doesn’t really overlap with my shared items on Google) and I also update it when I feel like changing my facebook status a bunch of times, since it can better handle multiple updates.
Twitter and microblogging in general have quite a lot of potential for libraries, in that I can use it to quickly consult experts in my social circle, or to easily push out content that can be distributed in short statements. Not sure whether it’ll become a major tool, though.
Comment by shari — April 26, 2008 @ 9:47 pm
Shari — very interesting. I hadn’t really thought of the subgroup applications. I wonder if that carries over to cycling stuff.
Comment by Alexis — April 27, 2008 @ 12:17 am
I twitter because everyone kept asking me why I don’t twitter. The issue is that I really don’t get feedback from twitter — I like comments, so unless someone asks me “hey, are you twittering this”, I don’t update.
I do read some twitters, but it is becoming noise on my RSS reader these days. The signal to noise ratio is pretty poor.
Comment by Mark Ballew — April 27, 2008 @ 12:50 am
“I twitter because everyone kept asking me why I don’t twitter.”
This is roughly why I ended up on Facebook.
Comment by Alexis — April 27, 2008 @ 7:27 am