A Corollary to “Tweets and Flaps”
The other day I linked to a collection of posts by Shrinking Violet Promotions on the Twitter phenomenon and the viability of using Twitter as a way to connect with friends and readers.
Today, I ran across a retweet Greg Pincus of Gotta Book posted about Twitter for Busy People. It’s a handy way to view your friends’ tweets at a glance. Check out the link to see what I mean.
I could see myself using this more easily than TwitterFox, which I have on my igoogle home page, but still find a bit daunting, since I often have 20 or more tweets before I get a chance to take a look at them. And I’m not even following that many people… At *most,* I end up taking a cursory look and move on to more important things. Seriously! Who has time for this?? 
For me, the jury’s still out. I use Twitter now and again, I like the way it occasionally points me to new/interesting info, but all in all – it’s feeling mostly just a. bit. too. much.
david e said:
I picked up Twitter for National Poetry Month with a goal of Tweeting an original haiku a day (I exceeded that by averaging nearly three a day) and that was fun.
Since then I have found it best at the type of “microblogging” that is just people posting links to things they find interesting. I’ll post the occasional musing of my own, and maybe read others, but I’m mostly using it as you have mentioned, another pointer to the vast wealth of what the internet offers.
I do find there’s a certain “look at me” element to Twitter that leaves me cold, but I can also see how it can be used to galvanize people politically (as recently with Iran) or for promotion and publicity.
Dianne said:
As you, too, allude to, I have this intuitive sense that there are some good, worthwhile uses for Twitter. But it can easily become information overload – particularly when it’s of the “look at me” variety. Mostly, I think it comes down to a question of the quantity/quality of individual posts. Less is more, in most cases, don’t you think?
I saw your haiku posts for National Poetry Month – they were a lot of fun!! As was all the other poetry stuff, links and what all that went on that month.
Thanks for stopping by. See you in VT!