- There are some folks (who might be readers of this author's blog and will thus remain anonymous) who seem to just get a kick out of seeing their own words appear on a digital canvas, only seconds after they post. What they post is less important than that they post, and I'll routinely see 'tweets' that can only be described at best as useless, or irrelevant. Fun, on occasion, but not consistently, and often just annoying. An example of this might be, "leaving the office, heading to Subway for lunch", or "at Lowes, looking for rubber cement". Of course, I've facilitated this, by allowing those vacuous tweets to make their way directly to my iPhone, via "device updates'.
- Other Twitterers choose more carefully what they post, and will more often than not share a URL, or an academic or business reference that they find valuable or interesting, in the hopes that their followers might also agree. Today for example, I received Tweets pointing me to an article describing "rules for establishing a business presence on Twitter" and two days ago was directed towards a complex yet compelling article on "portable social networks"
It seems to me that micro-blogging as an editorial exercise provides proof that one can make very good use of 140 characters, in an information-sharing sort of way. Or that technology can just make it easy to waste time faster.
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John G.
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John - Ever heard of people using micro-blogging-like technology for project management or status updates? In our agency, for example, some of our fast-growing and fast-moving account groups could potentially benefit from reviewing quick updates from teammates, such as, "just met with client, they want to move forward with project A but drop project B. Are these micro-blogs easy to set up or do you need to use a service like Twitter?
Colleen
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