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By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:06:30 +0000

I don’t know if Twitter paid people. I think it’s a simple case of the media getting onto its own (social) media bandwagon. Take the current case of swine flu. The media’s gone gaga. There’s a lot of ‘could’ and ‘might’ going on. This doesn’t help. Neither does the media’s current preoccupation with Twitter.

I’m a sometime social media fan. I’m starting to be minded that social media is not all it’s cracked up to be. One day I’m going to write a post about it. But not today.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:12:02 +0000

i think twitter paid a lot of people to start talking about them. one week it was suddenly all over the national news and what ever show billy bush is on was talking about it almost non stop. what really really makes me believe this is when i was channel surfing i saw that on miss usa, they showed some celebrity on her cell phone then on the screen it said “twittering” with an arrow pointed a the phone.

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By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:14:19 +0000

I think the real difficulty in people’s minds is ‘what is it for’. It’s the classic example of software that doesn’t come with a user guide. You can use it for just about anything and, as you say, it’s so simple. No formatting, no challenging interfaces, hardly even a need to point and click. It’s the kind of social media Miss Marple could use.

By: thewikiartist

thewikiartist — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:25 +0000

I have just been asked to give a training session about Twitter and can’t help but be delighted by the opportunity.
One of the reasons I love Twitter is that it is a real enabler one of the first BIG ideas I read about online.

This idea is about the Internet itself and how it allows anyone and everyone (with access) to become a publisher and not just a consumer of content. UGC has so far however remained the pass time of the digital savvy. Publishing a YouTube video or writing a blog, if not containing many technical hurdles did require some feeling of ‘ease’ with computers. Or maybe more importantly a lot of time.

Twitter however, as you say ‘is just like sending a text’. This simplicity is its key strength. It is just a communication tool that opens up new channels for sending and receiving signals. The reason for its power is that draws on the awesome and established properties of digital text from hyperlinking to RSS.

@thewikiartist