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Re: Harvard Studies Twitter

Eleena — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:51:48 -0000

Hi Dan,
Six months ago I was a Twitter skeptic and now I'm a Twitter evangelist.

For people who are already spending a huge amount of time online (either for work or for personal reasons) and want to connect with other people with similar interests, I think Twitter is great. It's also an excellent way for companies to communicate and interact with their customers.

But for anyone who doesn't fit into either one of those categories, Twitter is probably not right for them. If you don't have time to devote at least a couple hours a week to tweeting and interacting with other folks on Twitter, just stick to email.

Re: Harvard Studies Twitter

Chris Allen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:19:11 -0000

I may be missing the point with Twitter, but I am one of those who signed up and then left it alone really, since as far as I can tell, it is very similar to a 'facebook status' without any real reason to ever update it. I acknowledge that it may be more useful if a lot of your friends are on there (as is also the case with facebook), yet I still fail to really see the point. At least facebook has other points of interest (photographs, events etc) which twitter just doesn't have. Also, Twitter seems to almost demand a high level of activity from people in order to be useful, whereas sites like facebook are admittedly more static yet provide more reason to log in at any given point.

Just my off the cuff thoughts!

Chris

Re: Harvard Studies Twitter

Frederick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:48:03 -0000

I'm also a journalist. Tried Twitter several months ago and found it distracting, disjointed and not at all useful. Tried again a month or so ago (having read the kudos online regarding its usefulness for journalists) and had the same reaction. I prefer RSS for news.

Re: Harvard Studies Twitter

Jaycer17 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:37:18 -0000

I'm guessing that most people who sign up are the recent "I saw it on Oprah/CNN" crowd. As an avid "twitterer", I find it quiet useful in my work (I'm a journalist) and amongst my friends.