Trying out Twitter and on being a Second Generation adopter

Categories: Media 2.0, Mobile, Social Media, Web ToolsPosted on February 5th, 2007

I’m now on Twitter, will check it out for a while, profile page here. I don’t be doing any of the mobile updates or checking that content from my phone. I’m wondering how much is signal vs noise. I’m also wondering if this is a tool that Gen Y will use to communicate, or if they still prefer chat tools. Also, I’m wondering how this is anything new? The unremarkable Yahoo 360 had a status type bar, as well as most IM clients, is it just because it’s tied to mobile?

I’m a second generation adopter, I look for signs from the network before trying out new tools, there are certain people that I watch and listen for indicators before jumping in, a ‘network filter’ in some way.

For example, I tried out MyBlogLog a few weeks ago, I visit the reporting pages once in a while. Brian Oberkirch told me he finds the intelligence helpful to find out about his audience. I suspect that anyone who is so engaged into blogging to sign up for MyBlogLog (which assumes they are also a blogger) is also likely to interact with my blog at some point, either linking to me or leaving comments. While he’s right, one should pay close attention to their audience, I’m under the impression that my corporate audience is unlikely to sign up for MyBlogLog.

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Luis Suarez

Thanks, Jeremiah, for the feedback ! Yes, I agree with you that MyBlogLog is a good "network tracking" tool, but way more powerful than any other analytics data on readership. To me, one of the best capabilities that MyBlogLog has got to offer is the opportunity to reach out to other people, to other webloggers, who may share, or not, similar interests with me. Tracking data is nice and cool, indeed, but at the end of the day, it is just that: data. I want to go to the next level, which is basically finding out how through that data I am able to reach out to others and build up relationships further with them from there through our weblogs and those of the folks we follow. This is something that data will never be able to provide you as such. That is for sure. This is what makes MyBlogLog unique at this point. Not the data you can get from it, but the different relationships with other webloggers you can build. That visibility is what makes it worth while alone making use of this tool. For the data, I can agree with you that there may be better tools capable of providing much more detail, but then again, that is probably the reason why MyBlogLog is most famous for: the people aspect vs. the data aspect. At least, that is how I perceive it.

jeremiah_owyang

Luis

MyBlogLog is unique when it comes to 'network tracking'

But one can find analytics data on readership tracking using a variety of web analytics tools like google reader.

Read my point above about the 'specific readership' per individual.

Luis Suarez

Hi Jeremiah! Thanks a lot for following up on the conversation. I would love to hear from other tools doing similar stuff to what MyBlogLog is trying to achieve. I must say that I haven't found any other just as good as this particular offering and the way it is actually growing certainly indicates how it has been filling-in a void that no other offering could provide thus far. So, please, if you know of any other offering along the same path as this offering do share it with us. I would like to explore it as well.

jeremiah_owyang

All very helpful Luis and Craig

Great points on mybloglog. Granted mybloglog does provide some detailed info, but there are other tools out there that can also provide this info. In the end, it's about using a variety of tools to tell the whole story.

Good points about it being passive. I recently cut IM mostly out of my life, it was too disruptive.

Craig Cmehil

Hi Jeremiah,

First wanted to say I'm a fan and your latest blogs about Corporate blogging have been fantastic!! The link (website link) goes to a small post I made on my thoughts about Twitter - I think one of the reasons that Twitter is such a "win" is the fact that it's passive, I get the updates I want when and how I want without that little IM popup or having to check my inbox.

Craig

Luis Suarez

Hi Jeremiah! I can certainly understand some of the good points you make about social software adoption and trying all of these different tools. I have been doing some of that myself for a while, except that I am perhaps at the other end of the road, always trying to try out and test new tools so that I have then got a chance to share with people if they are worth while exploring or not, imo, that is. And to that extent, here is a weblog post I shared last week on 5 reasons why you may want to consider MyBlogLog in order to help you build further around your community. May be worth while a read.

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