One definition of twitter from my ancient Webster's dictionary (copyright 1966) is "to talk in a chattering fashion", but lately the word has taken on a whole new meaning. This posting is about two articles, one from USA Today and one from a local newspaper that present two rather different viewpoints on Twitter and social networking in general.
The USA Today article provides a brief summary of all the new social networking tools on the Internet with a great deal of emphasis on how Twitter is expanding rapidly. The article from the local newspaper has a little less serious view of Twitter, saying it could follow the course of the CB radio fad of the 1970s and proposing a very interesting test to judge Twitter's staying power.
So what do you think of all the new social networking tools, will some of them become indispensable and if so what are the ones that will?
I have been on Twitter for a few months now and have about 600 followers. I don't really see the difference between Twitter and the old chat rooms back in AOL's domination of the internet. I guess the biggest difference would be major corporations are recognizing that they can build brand recognition by having a Twitter. When the women's NCAA tournament was going on they couldn't stop talking about "Rebecca Lobo" on Twitter.
I don't see how it is going to last. Facebook, LinkedIn and a number of other sites offer the same type of status updates with a whole lot of other value as well. That's what I like.
Besides . . . I really don't care what people are having for coffee at the corner coffee shop. Give me some value.
Just my opinion!
Posted by: Jason Kiesau | June 01, 2009 at 10:57 PM