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Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter

Categories: MicroMedia, Web Tools, Web UsagePosted on December 11th, 2007

Twitter is one of the top referrers of traffic to my blog, over 2000 referrers from twitter to my blog in the last 30 days…there’s something happening there.

I’ve also noticed and increase of new users over the past 30 days, feel free to add me as a friend, I will add you back. (Update: I’m no longer adding anyone back, as it’s not time efficient for me to do this)

Twitter is becoming a major communication tool for me lately. There are more intimate conversations being held on this next-generation chat room, and it’s filled with early adopters and those who are trying to reach them.

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, my colleague Peter Kim recently did research on it, as well as recorded a podcast. I’ve also got a post up on why Twitter matters to the web strategist –it’s a quick start guide.

Here’s a few of the conversations I’ve been having in the last week

  • Just this morning we were debating the (lack of) user enterprise software debate
  • This past weekend I met over a dozen people who like the same type of music I do, and they recommended new artists to me.
  • News and information breaks on Twitter before it hits blogs
  • Last week I was on the phone with Francis Tapon, author and world traveler, he told me his secrets to getting paid to traveling the world, so I tweeted it to my 1900 followers.
  • I also share interesting links to content I’m reading, mainly around web and technology, as well as events I attend, much of this does NOT end up on my blog.
  • I’m starting to use Twitter like my link feed, why I find interesting I put on twitter, rather than on my google shared reader or my blog.
  • You won’t hear me talking about what I ate for lunch, but you will learn things about me that I’m passionate about –strategy, music, art, etc.


    • Who it’s for and who it’s not
    If you’re in the tech industry, and in marketing, you should be paying attention to what’s happening on twitter. There’s even search tools that can help you find discussions and memes. Also, if you’re trying to reach early adopters, these are tools for you. This really reminds me of the the whole blogging industry in 2005, it’s the same type of pros and cons –it’s just much smaller now. If you don’t meet these criterion, then it may not be for you, always remember to find the audience you’re trying to reach first.

    Hope to see you there, my profile is jowyang, and I’ll follow you back.

    If you’re seeking more followers and want to connect with folks (once you get a few dozen active friends, a real ‘conversation’ starts) leave a comment below with your twitter name.

    Update: I’ve tweeted to my network to add their name to this comment area if they want to connect with other folks (see my actual tweet) that are interested in social media+marketing+and are on twitter.

    [The Fabric becomes stronger as the Threads connect]

    In just a few minutes there are over 20 responses. This is testament to how rapidly things are evolving. Now the title of this post is needs to be modified: “Some conversations are moving to twitter..and back to blogs”

    Update 2: Three hours since I’ve posed the first tweet pointing people here (Have about 50 new followers, and over 160 comments on this post, dozens of replies within twitter, became the top node on techmeme, as well as direct messages), and I’m getting messages that Twitter is slowing down as people are starting to add other, the fabric is growing. This is a good test of what could happen in an emergency, as folks were using Twitter to get messages out during the South CA fires a few months ago.

    The viral activity in and around Twitter was amazing, people of like minded interests were leaving their twitter profile below, then connecting to each other at a rapid rate, it then spread the the blogosphere slowing both twitter.com and my blog.

    There are echoes on the blogosphere too:

  • Why is Twitter Exploding? Because it’s A Conversation Ecosystem.
  • Jeremiah Owyang Causes Twitter Explosion
  • Twitter Traffic
  • Help! I’m Addicted to Twitter!
  • Twitter is a Conversation Ecosystem

    • My assumptions were right, there really is something happening in twitter, it’s clear it’s the desire to connect and communicate.

    Update 3: The Day After
    It’s very clear this was twitter storm resulted in meeting the objectives of getting folks to connect. I’m receiving messages and reading blog posts that many people now have added 20-100 followers or connections that they might have not been able to connect to previously, you can track the many incoming links from Technorati. Sadly, having a few hundred more contacts has flooded my mail inbox with notifications, but as promised, each person I’ve promised to follow and listen to in return. Lots of clicking to do this weekend.

    Most importantly, the value of a network is determined by it’s size, yesterday (which some are calling ‘Twitter Tuesday’) resulted in a stronger fabric across the social network. All of the boats rose with the tide.

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    • I'm fairly convinced that Twitter will stay very niche. It will just be the likes of us. Already the signal to noise ratio is getting very muddy and unless you have particularl interest and skill, it's just not a meaningful conversation. File under fad
    • Thanks Simon, I agree, it's certainly very niche.

      Any comments on why Google purchased it's competitor, Jaiku?
    • I agree with all of these points, and I actually just wrote something similar on my blog.

      Twitter is definitely niche, but I can see a lot of potential for it down the road. If I have a company of 100 employees and I want to keep tabs on what they're working on and the general vibe of the shop, why can't I have an enterprise version that would work the same way as the public version, but add a level of security from outside eyes just by clicking "Send Public" or "Send Internal". I think something like that would be an incredibly powerful way of keeping a large group communicating without overflowing the all-staff email address.
    • google bought jaiku just in case it made something awesome that they could not. oh and also it likes sucking up teams. makes the playing field easier to cope with later on.

      add me on twitter! - http://twitter.com/philcampbell
    • having come to the Social Media and Marketing crowd by way of an extreme tech background. Im always willing, wanting and interested to meet and get to know more people.

      My clients are discovering how twitter is working in their industries and its the first time for them that Social Networks have had a a very clear return on investment.

      Great posts as usual Jeremiah
    • Count me in! Twitter name:
      http://twitter.com/chrbutler
    • I'm glad to connect with more people interested in technology, communication, public relations, marketing, music, politics...bring it on.

      I'm mjkeliher on Twitter - http://twitter.com/mjkeliher

      Twitter will "stay niche"? Don't forget the important role of the cell phone in a medium like Twitter. My 16- and 11-year-old siblings (sick as it is) almost literally live and die by their cell phones.
    • per your Twitter post, here's my info:
      http://twitter.com/ncho

      would love to keep in touch with other Social Media/Jazz heads via Twitter...

      peace,
      -g-
    • Great post, Jeremiah. Can't agree more with you that Twitter is either replacing or disrupting other channels of communication such as blogging or email discussion lists. I see it as the perfect augment for the more static blog sites and where the real action happens first.

      Here's my Twitter acct. Add me!: http://www.twitter.com/samharrelson
    • Jeremiah - Have you been following the development of any "white label" microblogging apps? I, among others, would be interested in a follow up post on this.
    • Twitter is amazing: I always come back for more. But one needs to spend time there to grow your contacts and relationships. Or not. I enjoy the folks who do use it *just* for their company and business to keep in touch. I use it to keep up on *some* of my favorite bloggers and podcasters. And yet I like the personal element of some of my friends being there. It's just an interesting place. [I should have just posted 140 characters, right?]

      http://twitter.com/barbarakb
    • I wasn't too sure about Twitter when I first heard about it but am a full on koolaid drinker now. My twitter page is http://twitter.com/sheagunther
    • 1st things 1st: http://twitter.com/DougH.

      Like Jeremiah, I follow most everyone back (spammers excluded). Why do I use Twitter?

      - Networking
      - Live event sharing-- esp. for people who are not there, but even among attendees
      - Ideas -- asking and sharing
      - Getting news and interesting links- I found this post through Jeremiah's tweet.
      - Self-promotion; try to be careful with this-- adding value and keeping context in mind-- but as a PR person, links/info pertaining to myself, my agency or my clients are part of the mix**

      ** Gotta be part of a mix; promotional tweets only are bad juju.

      Niche? Sure. But sometimes it take one event to bring a tool into wider recognition and use. SXSW got Twitter started with a bang, who's to say something else won;t happen to take it further?

      Why did Google buy Jaiku? I suspect they will integrate it within another Google service. It is a great tool, but it didn't take off on its own to the degree Twitter has-- perhaps because Twitter has been over-simplified
    • I've used Twitter to make some very interesting and powerful connections. I've cut back on RSS feeds because I use Twitter to point me to good reads; it also sends traffic to my blog. With increased numbers it does become more difficult to follow conversations, but there are tools to help. For example, I use the "track" command to send all of my @ replies to my phone. That way I know when someone is including me in a conversation.

      http://twitter.com/conniereece
    • Oh-- and Gene, I'm a huge Jazz-head-- used to be an NPR Jazz DJ, once upon a time...and I welcome more jazz talk. @creativesage is also a big jazz fan
    • Per your twitter post Jeremy, my twitter detail: http://twitter.com/Henre

      The more the merrier!
    • awesome post Jeremiah...

      i share the view that it is niche and agree with your assessment on the value to the tech / marketing crowd.

      Best, Chris

      http://twitter.com/mobilediner
    • Hope to get in touch with more social media folks, add me when you like

      http://twitter.com/Corporateweb

      Cheers

      Joost
    • Twitter went from something I disdained to a daily part of my life. Some of the conversations are innocuous, but some are incredibly gripping. I'm definitely an addict now.

      http://twitter.com/jbruin
    • Love twitter & been looking at the application across a broad spectrum of businesses (most recently for realtors who thrive on strategic networking).
      The research has been fascinating, and referred heavily to Forrester thanks to you.
      Incisive & relevant as always, thanks Jeremiah

      Twitter with South African style: http://twitter.com/MaxKaizen
    • Guest
      we're already following each other but I'm happy to connect with anyone else here, we're all into some of the same stuff.
      twitter.com/EaonP
    • Jeremiah I also agree with your points here. Twitter has the ability to facilitate conversations between people via these short 140 character SMS styled text posts, but it also scales up well so that it is amazing when used in large scale event situations, such as some of the Podcamps, Gnomedex, etc. This strength was seen in the earlier days of Twitter when it was being heavily pioneered at SXSW.

      Between all the interesting apps that are springing forth from clever use of Twitter's API, and the ongoing surge in users, it is tough to imagine Twitter's usefulness and appeal flittering away any time soon.

      Thanks!
      RhiannonSL in twitter
    • I am A Futurist, Living on the Edge of the OC. I love shiny new toys and hot new sounds. Got Any?

      http://twitter.com/darinrmcclure

      Do you follow me?

      Darin
    • With a new blog I do not have the traffic you have but I too see a large percentage coming from Twitter.

      Feel free to add me - http://twitter.com/marcbenton
    • Angela and others

      YES, THE NEED FOR A WHITE LABEL TWITTER APP IS NEEDED.

      If you have such a tool, please brief me and Peter Kim at Forrester.
    • I'm a grad school student in applied anthropology focusing on cyber and design anthropology who uses twitter for academic reasons (it not only provides useful fodder being a social network itself, but the buzz it generates around things just as they hit the web has proven very useful). I've found that though I entered the sphere for social reasons, and then stayed for academic reasons, due to a recent job change to that of an information architect the particular sphere of twitterers I've found myself lends itself to my professional interests as well!
    • I personally thought it was cool that you accepted my friend request so quickly!

      http://twitter.com/mindofandre
    • Oh and I already follow you, but you can find me at http://www.twitter.com/sollitaire
    • What a timely blog entry. I'm on twitter and follow about 100 people. There are sub-group of them that drop "to-do's" or tasks to one another as they work on a group project. I think the utility is there PLUS it shows a team working hard towards a task and focused on the end goal....which could be used as a source for new leads to their business.

      "@xxx when r u going to have the new mock-up ready for project yyy."

      "@898 I'm on it. you'll see it an hour."
    • Twitter is niche, but the idea of knowing what your friends are doing isn't. It's not an accident that LinkedIn just moved to a Facebook-style news feed. Really it's an evolution of CNN, etc. - headlines all the time, but focused on one person's life.

      I'm expecting there to be some interesting tension between getting updates on people's lives and getting updates on people's ideas. Compare Leisa Reichert's "ambient intimacy" with Christopher Fahey's "intellectual doodling". We might need more "channels" within accounts, or more software to choose what types of news are shown.

      I'm @jcberk and still getting my feet wet.
    • Oops, nearly forgot - you can twitter me here:

      http://twitter.com/spangles

      (we are already following each other Jeremiah)
    • Just added Jeremiah on Twitter last week and have loved twit-blogging about the industry already...

      http://twitter.com/dbrowell
    • Ami Chitwood
      Jeremiah:
      Love to be part of this fabric - I work for a large company and am one of those small, tiny voices shouting from the inside that there are amazing networks, technologies and techniques we need to get our grubby little hands on inside the firewall. I often use the example of Twitter as a way to talk about channels and employees "feeling" connected (based on my experiences outside the firewall, that is!)

      http://twitter.com/achitwood
    • http://twitter.com/vargasl

      Twitter feedback/conversation has helped me prioritize trends and applications to research/learn.
    • Very nice post Jeremiah. I agree the community growth at Twitter is really accelerating.

      My social media niche is developing the best uses of web video. Always interested in learning and sharing with good folks.

      You can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/earwood.
    • Working from home can be isolating, so Twitter has become my office water cooler, where the best and brightest hang out and share what's on their minds.

      Twitter allows me to network with my peers, learn from the rock stars of social media, get access to news first, hear about new tools to play with, make new friends in the space and realize that we are all passionate about connecting.

      http://twitter.com/adelemcalear
    • true story, Jeremiah. Twitter has replaced a lot of my formerly decentralized web time. People like you (and me) link to interesting blog posts that we think might be of interest to our twitter pool, and I'm so far finding that a more targeted and efficient way of staying up-to-date when I'm on the road. It's also strengtheing some formerly "weak-tie" relationships with my far-flung peers. I love it.
      follow me at twitter.com/bethdunn
    • Let the connecting begin:
      http://www.twitter.com/georgedearing
    • I'm at http://twitter.com/ruperthowe

      Twitter has changed everything for me.

      I've grown a lot closer to people I knew vaguely before - and made some very strong friendships IRL and online.

      I learn at least one new thing on Twitter every day.

      I've gained a mass of new skills and a broader understanding of social web & tech stuff. I'm starting to make a better living as a freelancer thanks to all this new knowledge.

      And creatively, it's been a huge boost. It's inspired me to make over 150 short films with my phone posted directly to http://twittervlog.tv and Twitter, which has led to a hundred thousand views, a thousand comments, hundreds of new connections, scores of new friends and dozens of opportunities for work and travel.

      I'm taking a two week break for my sanity, though, because I have so much work to slog through before Christmas and Twitter can be distractingly fun.

      But I'll be back, because it's the hub of all my work and play online.

      I can barely remember how I used the web before it.
    • ..and by the way, anyone reading this feel free to add me-- I am finding new folks in this thread as well: http://twitter.com/dough
    • Jeremiah - You are one of the masters in the Twitter space. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. I'm a huge Twitter fan. I learn so much from it every day. Twitter name: http://twitter.com/podcasthotel
    • I'm on Twitter and love it. Am encouraging friends and colleagues to join as well.

      I'm at:

      http://twitter.com/melgallant
    • While Twitter may be niche, I think Ryan and Nik have identified the real benefits of Twitter. People who have the opportunity to experience how it works can often find uses to improve communications in their line of business.

      Thanks Jeremiah!

      I'm on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rickmahn - feel free to join me.
    • {licks finger and checks for wind direction} I'm on and off twitter more than some people go on and off the patch to quit smoking. Right now I'm back on there, doing a lot of lurking and checking out the links others post.

      Twitter has become my new "digg", but without the comments.
    • Oh yeah feel free to add me too!

      http://twitter.com/newmediamike
    • It is interesting to see Twitter evolve. I've grown up in B2B marketing and am interested in how social media will help in that arena, and also how it will help (or not!) with business and personal productivity. Twitter is very ambient in nature, which is great for helping remote workers feel connected.

      http://twitter.com/redcatco
    • alice
      already following you but my twitter's at http://twitter.com/blunders

      yeap, am doing alot of research on social networking. i must say i was initially very skeptical about the whole proposition of twitter and thought it was another frivolous app. only till my friends went overseas and realise it's indeed one app that helps me stay connected with them, know what they're doing and certainly serves as another social bridge. it's also another great way to stay connected remotely with people who share same interests and know what's going on on the other end of the world!

      great stuff here!
    • Twitter has been instrumental in a variety of ways for us:

      Standard networking and communications with peers
      Getting pitched and communicating with PR agencies
      Drawing attention to/promoting content
      Twitting at conferences
      Picking up on memes of interest
      Sharing useful resources

      On the client side, we're doing even more.

      Let's connect
      http://twitter.com/leeodden
    • add me if ya like, i'm looking for ways to evolve social media and learning.

      http://twitter.com/mattshandera
    • Melanie
    • Saw your Tweet - I'm in; look for http://twitter.com/stevegroves
    • I was a twitter skeptic at first, but recently I have benefited greatly from it -- for the social and the newsgathering aspects. Yes, I've seen the light.

      Feel free to add me:

      http://twitter.com/tfdavis

      Keep up the great work Jeremiah.
    • Hey Jeremiah,

      We are already twitter friends but love to twitwork (twitter+network) with any and all.

      http://twitter.com/herb
    • I've been playing with Twitter for the last year but only starting taking it seriously th last 3 months or so. I actually get more out of it then my 200 plus feeds via Google Reader.

      Count me in: http://www.twitter.com/markkrupinski

      Cheers,

      Mark.
    • I'm encouraged to see that I already know a handful of the folks in the comments of this post but will go in and add some that I don't to my "following" list.

      Bottom line is that Twitter is changing the way people in technology and social media interact. If you're not participating, you're missing the boat!

      Oh yeah, I'm http://twitter.com/astrout
    • Hi Jeremiah,

      saw your tweet, here's mine: CollectiveIntel and copydiva
    • Twitter is interesting to me on multiple levels - personally, it's nice to have a support network of like-minded friends; professionally it's become a valuable way to share information and network.

      I predict we'll see some fine tuning or developers from the outside bringing ways to use twitter more advantageously and efficiently.

      Please feel free to add/follow me to network/discuss Social Media, Tech, Blogging, PR, Marketing or Student Loans. I love to follow back and strive to contribute humor, support and information, since that's what i get from my twitter friends!

      mariana_66
    • I guess we are already intertwittered; if not:http://www.twitter.com/pixites
    • Canadian Government, following social media trends and impact on communications/issues management.

      http://twitter.com/iketches
    • Hi, Jeremiah!
      I signed up for Twitter in July. Didn't 'get' it. A friend talked me thru it in October, and I'm hooked. Twitter is in that quiet-rumbling-before-the-storm mode, which is exciting, but is also proof (albeit intangible) of its potential. I use it to keep up with friends, to make new ones, and to get an inside look into who's doing what. I'd pay for it...
      I'm adding twitter to my next set of business cards. It's on my email signature, my latest 'tweet' is at the top of my blog, and it has become as valuable as email and voicemail. (But it's a lot more fun!)

      follow me at http://twitter.com/davidbadash
      I'll follow you back.
    • http://twitter.com/jstorerj

      looking forward to adding more voices to my social media circle. thank jeremiah!
    • David if you are interested in twitter uses as a way to connect and disseminate information and content in an educational/non-profit way, check out what I set up for Global Kids' holymeatballs.org blog: http://www.twitter.com/holymeatballs.org
    • Jeremiah, I am SO overdue for an update of the "Ode to Twitter" I wrote around the time of gnomedex. I am making dozens of business uses of it, and it has become THE single most important "networking tool" (it's WAY more than that) I have ever used.

      I believe that with the right study, modification, training and application, a Twitter-like communications app can be rolled out into "the enterprise" and become mission critical in a matter of 5 years or less. And my brain has been EXPLODING about how.

      It has the potential to become as ubiquitous as, and much more powerful than, email.

      And yes, in case you're skeptical, I am well aware that it is arguably the dumbest app in the world.
    • Twitter might be niche now, but I am sure this is where the curve will head once Facebook explodes. It's a great way for insiders to connect now, and I think will become an even better way for a larger population to keep in touch soon.
    • nmw
      check out http://impost.org -- the green ">" opens a window with two frames that enables you to track discussions between several twitterers (well, two at a time, but you can switch around -- it's based on twitter's friends lists)

      :) nmw
    • I'm there Jeremiah - in the past few months, twitter has become a huge source of traffic for Searchviews.

      would love to add anyone participating in this conversation thread:

      http://twitter.com/searchviews
    • Last night on Twitter I found out that Twitter friend @susanreynolds has an invasive, aggresive breast cancer and will be going in for surgery before Christmas.

      Please add her and help her be strong.

      http://twitter.com/susanreynolds
    • Patrick Lajeunesse
      For me, Twitter's power really comes from the feeling of intimacy with people as I get a glimpse into their lives.

      At first I just followed people I knew from other media (blogs, podcasts, developers whose apps I use). What surprised me was how much value I get from following even people I'd never heard of, but who still want to share their interest at a given moment.

      I'm happy to join the conversation - I follow people who follow me too:

      http://twitter.com/patlaj
    • Hi Jeremiah,

      I don't believe micro-blogging will stay niche. I got into it with the other tech PR/Marketing and social media types (because I am one!), but I can quite readily see my other 'communities' of friends and colleagues taking to it, for example:

      - professional associations sharing news and ideas
      - mothers sharing support and planning activities
      - widely dispersed 'colleagues'(potentially a really wide term) creating much closer links despite not often physically meeting very often if at all.
      - closed groups such as a task-specific team or attendees of a conference.

      There'll continue to be a huge range of ways to communicate with and relate to other people, including new ways to test our social skills. We need to know how to combine the best mix to meet the needs and preferences of the people and relationships involved, and that best suits the task in hand.

      Micro blogging is particularly good at short, regular, low investment contacts (tempting out the otherwise quiet??). But I'd also argue that it is a high-trust situation - those that betray the trust are easily de-selected.

      No wonder we are seeing 'here first' announcements of new babies, sudden illness, the fall-out from natural disasters, as well as some great idea sources that you wouldn't necessarily have the time to come across in the working day.

      That its all this and personalised too is just a bonus.

      My Twitter name is Ronna if anyone would like to follow me.

      Cheers, Ronna

      PS - so far I tweet exclusively from my laptop.
    • I agree that the usage of Twitter is growing. i expect when I tweet next from a Mall - somebody is going to Tweet "Hi" I am standing behind you on the escalator" :)

      I like the thought from Ryan Anderson above for a enterprise version where employees can send messages on Twitter and its would be more efficient than internal email.

      I am http://twitter.com/shashib > always welcome people to connect and will try to help anytime.
    • I'm always looking to add insightful people to my twitter reading list :) My network keeps me updated on what's going on, and I love how the constant conversation on twitter has helped me create and maintain relationships that otherwise would have remained conference-centric!
    • Whoops - I suppose dropping my twitter link would help :)
      http://twitter.com/ericskiff
    • I left twitter for almost 8 weeks and then was drawn back in by someone specific who started following me. Their addition to the conversation triggered a realization about what Twitter was really about... for me personally. It's a brainstorming tool and a networking tool. In the beginning, I was trying to find a B2C connection, but it's not there and doesn't need to be. It's become one of my most valuable tools for finding the latest information.

      http://www.twitter.com/respres
    • twitter following is not like a straight line, it's more like a circle where the beginning of the circle changes all the time. http://twitter.com/AlbertMaruggi
    • Since Jim Long so unselfishly recommended another Twitterer, I'll recommend him as well-- http://twitter.com/newmediajim
    • Is new at Twitter and trying to be convinced of its value. I've been blogging and involved in social media for well over a year now, but am still not sold on Twitter.

      Still, follow me and I'll start following you... http://twitter.com/parkernow
    • Dawn
      I am currently figuring out how to streamline my twitter experience. Following disparate groups of people can make for difficulty in following a conversation. I also worry about my friends/followers who are getting tons of texts on their phones including my half of conversations to people they don't know and aren't interested in. Still not sure how best to integrate twitter into my overall ecosystem, but enjoying the heck out of it in the nonce.

      http://twitter.com/Demca
    • You got over 70 comments since posting your tweet about an hour ago!

      I've been connecting a lot through the "Twittercooler" and blogged some use cases:

      http://www.tapio.com/2007/11/your-watercoole.html

      I'm at http://twitter.com/alexdc , I'll follow you back
    • To me it's fascinating to see it grow and change...

      I can't imagine that we can really accurately predict where it will be in a year - if only because it seems to have changed so much in the last month.

      It appears at this point to be Jeremiahs own SONET though! And that's pretty cool..

      http://twitter.com/steveames
    • I commented earlier, but might as well add my twitter address: http://www.twitter.com/ryananderson
    • Hi Jeremiah and Twitterverse!
      Add me - I'll follow you back -http://twitter.com/benvear
      I'm interested in social media, data visualization and representation, PR, advertising, and anything geeky.
      I signed up for Twitter in July, didnt really get it, and now find it invaluable for work (I work @ motivequest, a social media consultancy - shameless self promotion in the website, as my blog is in the process of launching), school (northwestern), and play/community (I'm very involved with Rotary). It's been a fantastic tool to keep in touch with my friends, coupled with facebook and gchat.

      I find myself using gchat to communicate with my 20 something friends who havent, or wont, 'get' twitter. It seems like a nice steppingstone. Thoughts?
    • I am -not- an early adopter, but I'm not a Luddite either. I like to watch fads and see which ones are useful and which ones I feel will tail off. I never saw the necessity or a real business use of MySpace (I have personal space,) but I do see it in FaceBook, mostly in the way it is perceived in the market and how it has grown away from the things that made MySpace a turnoff for business folk.

      Twitter is different. I heard about it some time ago, but I just realized what can be done with it during the PubCon conference this past week. Ending this now, since others have stated the 'whys' better than I could. :)

      http://www.twitter.com/ninety7
    • I started off somewhat skeptical of Twitter but am finding it more useful as time goes on. Since I'm currently working in a small marketing department, having access to people who do what I do in a whole range of other places helps fight feeling isolated and keeps me in the loop for what's going on out there. It's a great networking tool, an idea feed, and a way to make connections to people in a new way.

      Plus, it's fun!

      http://www.twitter.com/rslux
    • colleen
      It seems to me like the fabric of social media can only get stronger. much like blogs were few and far between a couple years ago, & now everyone and their dog has one twitter and other SM tools will only grow in use and options for use.

      twitter: @colleencoplick
      http://www.twitter.com/colleencoplick
    • I have had so much feedback and help from my Twitter followers in the last 9 months that it has all been worth the effort to Twitter. Plus, I get a unique insight into the goings-on in silicon valley, you get to see what people are doing behind the blogs and conferences. Brilliant stuff.

      http://twitter.com/pete_gilbert
    • Genius, Jeremiah! What a great way to expand the community.

      I would argue that rather than replacing other forms of communication, Twitter is adding to it in a very powerful way. I haven't found another tool like it for quickly getting answers, sharing information and connecting with others.

      Anyone who wants to connect: http://twitter.com/davefleet
    • 1)It is so simple-my 76 year old mom can use it w a mobile-simplicity is its strength
      2)Little pocket-size gems of content-'media snack' as u called them. Drip-feed content like this never gets too much(unless u forgot to turn off your mb phone and get Gapingvoid reporting passionately tweeting away on a laptop from the Microsoft Conference in Paris;46 sms's get delivered in machinegun style in 5 mins on your phone in Sydney(time-diff-late-at-night) when asleep in bed w partner(great content still.
      My top 3:
      1 @jowyang
      2 @gapingvoid
      3 @briansolis

      Everyone can tweet-just like anyone can make coffee-but same places just make a killer espresso or picolo-the above 3 are great. Anyone know of someone that delivers value like @jowyang? If you had to pay something would you pay a subscription fee for the value that he delivers or your number 1 equivalent? Jeremiah-i would pay $5 to $10 to subscribe 2 ur feed-(nope ur not allowed to start charging now!)

      Love twitter-ubiquitous and it works for u and allows you to do something easier and better

      http://m.twitter.com/hansdek
      Biz Developer, Sydney,Australia
    • Wow, 89 comments.

      I run the Twitter feed for my agency, slack barshinger. I use it most often to make notes at conferences/shows and also to check out the snarky zeitgeist at conferences/show.

      http://twitter.com/slackbarshinger.
    • it is funny how this very post is cross polinating back to twitter, shows the power of conversation across various web platforms/sites.

      :)

      http://www.twitter.com/RhiannonSL
    • Really great post. I've become increasingly addicted to Twitter. Just came from Social Media Breakfast thru a tweetie.
      http://twitter.com/whatsnext
    • Hey! Great post. I agree. It seems many more people are joining Twitter.

      I'm the host of a web show called "Daily Idea." We cover how to tips in a humorous way to make your life easier.

      I'm always interested in meeting new people on Twitter.

      http://www.twitter.com/nikkikey
      and
      http://www.twitter.com/dailyidea
    • Yes, Twitter is something that is changing and augmenting conversations. Sometimes it's the backchannel, sometimes the news breaking tool ... sometimes just fun.

      Here is my Twitter ID: http://twitter.com/trishussey
    • Jeremiah - I agree 100% with your post and in fact twitter is the number one way I keep track of your tips.

      Follow me & my Startup Weekend adventures on Twitter:

      http://twitter.com/wisesumo
    • I like twitter a lot both for business and personal use. My indie biz is tiny (me) and imbued with my personality, so my twitter use is a natural extension of that. I think for more big business or straight-laced types twitter can be used to show a little personality for users/consumers of your service or product or to bring or keep awareness of your brand in the public eye. I don't mean use it as a way to spam folks but to interact with potential customers.

      I also like twitter because of the instant feedback. When I pose a query I almost always get a useful answer back right away. and yes twitter has increased traffic to my site. Overall it's helping me improve my business.
    • We are already linked on Twitter. Anyone else, add me if you want conversation ;-)

      http://twitter.com/ConversationAge
    • Twitter is fast becoming my favourite tool for finding out what going on "out there". Maybe I like it because it is so niche... y'know, because I like alternative music too, and it's only cool if nobody else listens too it ;-D

      http://twitter.com/Bunnly
    • I forgot to include my twitter addy, ha:
      http://twitter.com/Trula
    • Jeff Glasson
      While Twitter is mostly a personal communication tool, it is interesting to see how many businesses are beginning to try and use it in various ways.

      Twitter's opt-in/opt-out nature a blessing for the end-user and will ensure that businesses provide content with value rather than generic advertising based blasts.

      http://twitter.com/jeffglasson
    • Over the past 6 months, my attention has shifted away from RSS reader and to Twitter. I still read blogs but almost always I am starting with a link that I saw on my Twitter feed. It also has become my primary source for breaking news outside of the blogosphere.

      Follow me on Twitter:
      http://twitter.com/mdoeff
    • Always happy to have more Twitter friends :)

      http://www.twitter.com/willpate
    • I love Twitter, just brings me all the key news fast.

      http://twitter.com/rachelclarke
    • I totally agree...I have been evangelising for months on the merits of Twitter-- but is IS really only relevant to specific communities: tech 2.0, marketing, web strategy. But Twitter is definitely my source of rich, earth-to-ground conversation...the back-chatter before the blog posts and I'm addicted.
    • I have found twitter to be a great resource. When ever I had some sort of problem in the past I would head to a chat room and ask the question. Now I ask on twitter on any subject and I get 3-4 responses and I am not a internet superstar like you jeremiah or rice, brogan, penn and of course darkgracie.

      I also am waiting for a train or a plane and I can ask for info make a comment and start a conversation.

      I work alone most of the time in an office so I also feel like I am connected to others during the day.

      Add me and I will add you if you want to be my cyber friend.

      http://twitter.com/mmcallen
    • Many times someone has broke news or posted a link on Twitter before most news outlets so as others have said, it's fast becoming my source for what's going on.

      http://twitter.com/DavidWard
    • There has been some great points here. Twitter is so simple, so targeted, but has a fair bit of entropy, which is what makes it fun to use.

      Plus, no vampires or zombies.

      twitter.com/andrewhyde
    • I'm just starting to use Twitter. Question - is it proper etiquette to follow those who follow you?

      I'm always interested in people in marketing, PR, social media and general tech trends.

      http://twitter.com/csalomonlee
    • Back in November I wrote about my shift to Twitter instead of my readers...

      http://alisaleonard.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-i...
    • http://www.twitter.com/sass
      http://www.twitter.com/myxertones

      Great Post Jeremiah, as always. As is widely known, I am an early Twitter addict... It is like no other communication platform as it is both IMMEDIATE and ASYNCHRONOUS at the same time. You can dip in and out, or spend the day. You can join a pithy, enlightening conversation, or pass along a joke or a link. It is also an effective distribution channel for blog posts, videos, and other digital tidbits. Last week I posted a humorous "recruitment video" for my company via a link in the twitter stream, and in minutes we received resumes in response (http://tinyurl.com/ywv885) Follow twitter.com/myxertones and we deliver a FREE daily Indy Music ringtone via Twitter (with the download right to your phone if you get your tweets on your mobile). The possibilities are endless. Twitter has been the first introduction to many valued friends and associates that I have gone on to meet in person and go well beyond 140 characters with! In short, and in common Tweeting parlance: TWITTER RAWKS!
    • Wow, great response. My Twitter feed has become my #1 source for keeping tabs on things, so this is a non-brainer for me.

      http://www.twitter.com/hyperg
    • PF Anderson
      http://twitter.com/pfanderson

      Like Connie Reece says, I've neglected my RSS reader in favor of Twitter for preselected excellence.

      I keep telling people social tech doesn't make any sense until it is SOCIAL. It is about finding the core group of folk who interest you. Then, BOOM, it becomes a very interesting place indeed.

      PS - Teaching a mini-class on social marketing for libraries and health in February. Hunting good examples and ideas. :)
    • First: http://twitter.com/skalik

      Second: I like the idea of twitter for academics (now following @sollitaire thanks to this conversation). I'm thinking about all the ways it could have been useful when I was in school-- live tweeting notes (for those at home sick, or otherwise), sharing research related ideas with a community of like-interested folks... Wow!

      Thanks Jeremiah for gathering all of us!
    • Mark Palony
      Great stuff. I'm just learning the twitter ropes and am doing all I can to dive, head first, into the waters of social media.

      Help me learn: http://twitter.com/markpalony

      Thanks,
    • Suki Fuller
      Well, I was going to do this later as I am really busy but BLUF (bottom line up front)

      1) I agree with your post Jeremiah, keep 'em & your tweets coming. I may not always comment but I am dilligently reading.
      2) Google bought Jaiku most likely as a safe guard to enter quickly into the space and also to tie in the service with the GooglePhone b/c mobile is it...and they know it.
      3) Can't wait to see the Wednesday Digest this week!!!
      4) http://www.twitter.com/Suki_MHC05
    • Hey Jeremiah,

      Wow, you're bringing us all together. Well, we're already twitter buddies but here it is:

      http://www.twitter.com/danielriveong

      Also, I event did a survey asking twitter followers what they expected to get by following me on twitter:
      http://tinyurl.com/2qsoe7
    • Thanks Jeremiah!

      I've met a log of great folks on Twitter, definitely a great resource.

      http://twitter.com/jasonw22
    • Been Twittering a few months now and equally love it, join the convo:

      http://twitter.com/skanwr
    • I started using Twitter in late 2006, and I've been so impressed with how it's evolved from more than status updates to conversations. What I used to put in blog posts back in 2002, I now post to Twitter.

      The people I follow on Twitter make me smarter. I also love using it to connect with people in-person. Forget CNN.com, I know I and others turn to Twitter for late-breaking news.

      Follow me on Twitter and I'll follow you back:
      http://twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr
    • not gonna post my twitter address. Too many conversations as it is. My network grows well enough thru word of mouth, and seems a bit more meaningful that way.

      Good observations, tho.
    • Been Twittering a few months now and equally love it, join the convo:

      http://twitter.com/skanwar
    • Adam Cohen
      What a great way to build a community of passionate twitter users... this will help galvanize a group, certainly. I'm at http://twitter.com/adamcohen

      I would love to see some sort of "grouping" capability - either to manage connections but also watch/follow conversations. For example, it would be great within twitter to have a group of all co-workers from my company to have conversations that are exclusive. A feature like that would perhaps help with enterprise adoption around security concerns.

      Anyways - thanks Jeremiah - connecting with folks in Twitter who are "followers" of yours will only add value to the conversations.
    • I find my constellation of followers/followees expanding and contracting. I follow people who are in conversation with people I follow, adding a few each day. Eventually the twitstream gets too wide or hurried, and I pare it down.

      Folks who complain of a low signal/noise ratio (and "file under fad") are not trimming their followees, apparently. Doing so has opened conversations with people I otherwise wouldn't have met and has expanded my thinking about my own work, which I rarely tweet directly about (not sure why). http://twitter.com/jplummer
    • An Bui
      I got addicted to Twitter due to the speed of information sharing. It's a fantastic tool - http://www.twitter.com/anwith1n
    • First: www.twitter.com/tonysteward

      Second: I am a big twitter fan, it has taken virtual connections and transitioned them into real relationships better than any other social network I use. And I get invaluable information through my feeds that I don't get with the same relevancy or timeliness compared to my RSS feeds. Great Stuff!
    • I see twitter as a never ending virtual cocktail party (not that I go to cocktail parties, but it's how I imagine them - except without the snobbery.) You see two people talking, you can just walk up, listen a bit, join the conversation. Boom- you've made a friend. Meanwhile, you find out what people are talking about, you ask questions, you joke and laugh and have fun.

      Then again, it's also like an open source diary, or im conversation… oh well, so much for a unified metaphor. ;)

      ANYWAY- feel free to add me on Twitter - I'm http://www.twitter.com/misc, and as you can see I love to meet people there!
    • Randi Mason
      For the record, yes, there are a lot of librarians that 'get' Twitter. PF, will point you in the direction of a few that may be able to help.

      Especially like the fact that you can collect tweets into your blog (through LoudTwitter) and refer people to your blog for feedback by posting links to it on Twitter. both work to expand the conversation.

      Follow me at:
      http://twitter.com/randimason
    • Carmen
      I admit I too have been abandoning my RSS feeds in favor of twitter.

      As a student/practitioner of social media marketing, it's fascinating to watch this new communications tool evolve in its functions. Personally, I haven't yet used twitter for any promotional purposes - but I did live-twitter my ENTIRE childbirth experience (see my faves on twitter) - from my cell phone, cm by cm, all 15 hours of labor!

      I have always loved watching streams flow, and for me, watching the twitter streams of thought, data and effluvia appeals to the lurker/voyeur in me.

      I already follow you, Jeremiah, and thank you for all the insights you share. Thanks for watching the space.

      http://twitter.com/carmenleilani
    • Guess I oughta jump in on this. Twitter's great.

      I've debated about the ability to create subgroups. I actually think that's the beauty of Twitter, that you can't segment. There are plenty of other tools for more segmented messages.

      Like most organizations, Twitter has a critical mass of about 40-50 people, after which the dynamics change dramatically.

      Before, you're used to being able to read every tweet from every friend. Once you get past 50 or so, you have to learn how to dive into the twitterstream, swim around, and get out when your done--and not worry about what you miss when your not immersed...

      You can follow me at http://twitter.com/vanhoosear
    • Rick Collins
      Great post Jeremiah.
      http://twitter.com/rkcollins
    • Count me in, I follow marketing and web trends related to higher education.

      http://twitter.com/smeranda
    • I was skeptical about Twitter for a long time. Other than maybe my mom and my husband, who else could possibly care about what I was doing at any particular moment?

      I jokingly said this to a new acquaintance, a Very Connected blogger whose work I admire. He didn't miss a beat, and said, "Oh, I'd totally follow you!" I admit, I was very flattered. He explained how he uses Twitter like an extra antenna, to pick up on little ideas and themes that sometimes grow to be very big. And he likes to keep track of friends' everyday lives. So, hesitantly, I dipped a toe in the Twitter pool.

      I've found I really like following people I've met IRL at one conference or another. Fun to see that, while we're hunkering down for another round of ice and snow in the upper midwest, my PodcasterCon friends in North Carolina have 80 degree sunshine. Fun to know that a favorite OPML guru took time out of his afternoon to play with his dog.

      And it even comes in handy for actual work, too. I feel really lucky to be looking in on the lives of so many creative, smart, connected people. As they share about what they're reading, buying, writing, it sparks lots of new ideas for me -- and sends me off in new directions.

      I dread the day that Twitter gets so big or mainstream that the guys in suits get involved and try to monetize the thing -- or people figure out how to use it for spam. But that's fodder for another comment, another day.

      http://twitter.com/podcastmama
    • Twitter has become an indispensable tool for online marketing for me. It has actually cut the time I spend in feed readers and blogs. It happens first on Twitter, then it ripples out to the rest of the space. I try and add value in return for the value I receive.
      You can follow me at http://twitter.com/sschablow
    • Great post, Jeremiah.

      Twitter is the easiest way for me to quickly get status on my family and friends, keep track of/find out about live events, get industry/topic specific news before or as it's hitting the wire, and keep a pulse on what others are saying about me and the company I work for in 140 characters or less.

      Once you are hooked, you can't live without it. It's not a convenience, it's a necessity. It's here to stay.

      You can follow me at: twitter.com/zenaweist
    • Wow I wish we could get a list of these put together Jeremiah!

      http://www.twitter.com/Genuine
    • Twitter is useful, fun, viral, and easy to use. There's no better combination.

      Follow me at http://twitter.com/jeffbarr and I will follow you back (as long as I can read your language).
    • Excellent post, Jeremiah. Twitter has quickly emerged as on of the best tools for me in growing my personal and professional network. I've made far more meaningful connections through Twitter than I would have ever imagined when I started using it earlier this year.

      My posts are here: http://www.twitter.com/Bryper
    • So, reading this thread has been interesting and it's given me a little more insight into why people I've never met follow me. Now, spammers are obvious, but I still don't completely understand why strangers follow me. I talk about mainly boring day to day stuff on Twitter, rather than engaging in the larger social media conversations that I see....

      Maybe I'll change my habits. We'll see where the following of strangers goes.

      Nice work, Jeremiah, on starting this thread.

      http://twitter.com/stewtopia
    • Jackie
      I just got into Twitter even though I've known about it for a while. Don't have too many followers at the moment, so it would be great if you could add me and give me some feedback!

      http://www.twitter.com/gonzibonzis/
    • Great post as always, Jeremiah!

      http://twitter.com/merlene
      Renaissance Woman, Canada
    • Honestly, I've met so many great people strictly as a result of Twitter, and it's made it so easy to share with my friends and to get help when I need it that I have trouble imagining life without it at this point. Just as a tool for extending and maintaining your personal network, even if you don't have anything to sell, I think it's invaluable.

      And I'm always happy to meet new folks too! http://twitter.com/WickedGood
    • Stumbled onto twitter while exploring social media for my employer www.swedish.org (a large medical center in Seattle)where my boss is savvy enough to want to join the conversation. She won't be totally sold until I drag home my first hire from someone I met on twitter...like a cat placing a dead mouse tenderly on your pillow...but as I'm totally convinced that *could* happen in the natural course of events I keep twitter tweeting away along with the job boards, blogs, forums, Linkedin, and Facebook that crowd my screen. And personally and professionally I value the chance to hang with my peeps...brainstorming ideas, making connections, always always learning something new. And I'm going to my first real life tweetup next week! How cool is that ;-)
    • I signed up for twitter a while ago, but haven't been able to get into it.. Today I committed to put some effort into it and see what it can do.

      Ironically, I later come here and you're talking about it!

      Looking forward to following you and others, and perhaps even having people 'following' me!

      http://twitter.com/krusk
    • Great post Jeremiah. For me, Twitter is definitely the Most Valuable Social Media Tool of 2007. When I started using it last January, I had no idea that it would become such an integral part of my online life.

      --Andy
      http://twitter.com/andykaufman
    • I'll be boring and just leave my twitter name --> http://twitter.com/apennny

      I adore twitter, but recently haven't been seeing as many postings from the people I follow because so many of them start with @person and I don't follow that person.
    • So far I have more followers than following, lets keep the trend alive LOL http://twitter.com/mherzber
    • It´s true. I just converted the half of our company to use twitter:

      http://twitter.com/nugg_ad

      and my twitter (of course)
      http://twitter.com/etorsten
    • Dave Barger
      Connie Bensen turned me on to twitter about 45 days ago. Life will never be the saNe. Cheers!

      http://twitter.com/lalunablanca
    • I'm proud to say that I've been a twttr/twitter user since May of 2006 under:

      http://twitter.com/missrogue

      It's been central to my life since then even before it became 'useful'.

      BTW...we don't need a white label twitter. They have a totally rich and useful API that can be integrated deeply into any website in any form you wish. White labeling is not the answer here.
    • Peter Eden
      Twitter is at a peak now. How do you keep it the place to be once there are too many people doing it? what kinds of gates do you think will happen?
    • I've been using Twitter for quite a while now. When I first signed up, it was boring and I didn't "get it", but that's because I had no one to follow or follow me... the more the merrier!! :)

      http://www.twitter.com/goaliegirl
    • "extra antenna" Thanks Elisabeth (and your friend), this sums up Twitter perfectly for me.

      For me, Twitter is digestible, reliable, real-time, news feed. It is also somewhat self adjusting and humans learn quick.

      As for Jeremiah, he is a human net nuke explosion. I've known people who can spew for days on end, but never have I seen such organized thought come from someone who doesn't stop. I observed him last week (Web Comm. Forum) and he is the real deal. I honestly don't know how he does it.
    • Now, how do we take what you've started here and roll it up into an emerging folksonomy of twitterers?

      Okay, so I'm a geek. I build infrastructure, and I'm experimenting with collaborative social commerce.

      http://twitter.com/joshuamckenty

      PS - I would ask termie about the Jaiku purchase (the WHY, not the details): http://termie.jaiku.com/
    • I am interested in socialmedia use for the good of the whole. How does it serve corporations is not my concern if this corporations don´t have strong ethical values and are thinking on Service for the planet. We are facing the biggest challenge as specie where the corporations have a huge role as well as consumers who, by being more informed, VOTE everyday for the kind of planet they envision for the future of their children.

      In my own work in collective intelligence (CI) I am interested in the ways tweeter is being used to raise our CI by rapidly helping us organize, connect with small and large forces, weather is to collect money, develop a wiki, follow a live stream or like this experiment Jeremiah launched.

      For those with similar interests please do follow me as I will be deeply engaged in your own path.
      http://twitter.com/transitioner
    • Great post. I'm been using Twitter since February and it has definitely become a great source for news and information. It's also been a great "network" to query... I've had all sorts of questions answered in near real-time. I like what Tris Hussey wrote earlier:
      ----
      Sometimes it’s the backchannel, sometimes the news breaking tool … sometimes just fun.
      ----
      Indeed it is - I'm http://twitter.com/danyork

      For those interested in social media and marketing, I would also recommend you follow:

      http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan
      http://twitter.com/cspenn
    • I'm still having trouble getting my "mainstream" friends to adopt Twitter, and usually I'm pretty good about introducing them to stuff. Perhaps they're just too embedded in their cell phone SMS and Facebook updates. I don't know.

      Anyway, I'm @innonate on Twitter.
    • I only use twitter to communicate -- Email? What is that?

      http://www.twitter.com/ijustine
    • Great idea. Here's moi. I'm at SplashCast Media - very involved in the world of socia media, etc.

      http://twitter.com/tomturnbull
    • Good post, great energy Jeremiah.

      I'm in the process of adding a bunch of folks who commented above. I notice some familiar names in my friend list already and of course Jeremiah. Here I am:

      http://twitter.com/TDavid

      Let's expand the conversation :)
    • Twitter has sparked an interest in many, many people. The thing that keeps me interested is the fact that folks from all walks of life now have an outlet for their creativity, interests, and impromptu activities and allow the world to take a look. It is very interesting to see what others are up to, as well as have a social network of like-minded individuals that you can call on for advice, information, and late-breaking news.

      If knowledge is power, then Twitter is at least a catalyst. I work in the education industry and have found that one of the biggest problems with today's youth is that of effective communication. Twitter at least eases the use of technology such that communication of anyone ideas is quickly, and efficiently conveyed to a broad audience.

      A twit that I follow, Miguel Guhlin (http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin) mentioned on a blog entry a little while ago that one of the strengths that today's tech/web savvy professions has is their social-network. It is so true. And Twitter has helped in the increase and exposure of that type of power.

      Keep twittin'

      http://twitter.com/bjamnsolo

      bJamNsOLo
    • http://twitter.com/toddmintz

      I'm a late adapter, but Twitter is a keeper.
    • I'm already following you Jeremiah, and I think you follow me but since we're all sharing:

      http://twitter.com/usrbingeek
    • http://twitter.com/cc_chapman

      Crazy how this post has exploded, but great to watch the splinters of conversations happening in each persons individual little networks. Fun to be part of.
    • http://twitter.com/jhaggard

      Seattle, Tech., OpenID, CardSpace, Authentication, Outdoors
    • Look at all these comments! Something of a Twitternova.

      I'd be pleased to add people to my network. I run websites, wax poetic from time to time, and can be a bit mouthy on Twitter:

      http://twitter.com/chrisbaskind
    • Twitter's a great way to catch breaking news and is a great example of Metcalfe's Law - the more people you follow, the better it is. Plus it's fun.

      I'm at http://twitter.com/hoovers
    • I'm slowly growing my network with Twitter and replacing my feeds. Thanks to Jeremiah for the wonderful posts and helping make these connections through Twitter!

      I believe we're already connected, but still sharing... http://twitter.com/MelissaKing
    • I do marketing at a start up, so twitter has been a great way for me to track the bigger conversation about social media. Since twitter is so close to the source of thought leadership, it's a great resource for understanding the best way to understand how our product can add value. I'd love to hear from anyone facing the same challenges.

      Follow me at http://twitter.com/BetsyChase
    • Twitter is becoming my main hub for communication with those whom I respect. It's open at all times that I have my computer on, and I value it immensely. All of these tips, thoughts, and flows of consciousness are amazing and extremely valuable. It's the place where I maintain my relationships, in real time.

      The fun thing is explaining it to those who don't know/give you a strange look when you say, "wanna see my Twitter?"

      http://www.twitter.com/bradlevinson
    • I really enjoyed your post, and I have been relying on twitter to track the conversation much more lately. A desktop client helps a lot. I use Twadget. I'm finding myself twittering thoughts rather than posting on my blog as much.

      Follow me at http://twitter.com/cschultz
    • Really enjoy the quick perspectives and tweets about interesting posts/articles.

      Especially interested in marketing/pr in the environmental/sustainability arena.

      Follow me at http://twitter.com/planetrelations
    • forgot to add my company twitter account:
      http://twitter.com/ignitesma

      peace,
      -g-
    • I find twitter's 'track' service to be a valuable resource for brand monitoring / customer insights as well. I'm amazed at what people dish under the veil of semi-privacy. I wish I had Google Analytics for twit-tracking!

      http://twitter.com/nickhuhn
    • I've been playing with twitter personally but have decided to try integrating it into my website

      http://twitter.com/RedCarpetVictim
    • At first I Twitter was a novelty to me. I would watch the All Users stream. Eventually I got tired of that.
      However, I have recently been trying to get a little more in touch with the DC tech crowd. Twitter has been great in meeting and following people around the area. We see the events people are heading out to and also exchanging thoughts and ideas. I write a blog on east coast tech news, which has become pretty DC centric. I post my links there as well for my new friends to see. It is a great way to publicize anything. I am also working on a new startup and will use Twitter as a publicity tool as well. And hopefully my twitter friends will user twitter to spread the words to their followers.
      It really is a great testament to the flat world we have created and the online communities that surround it, as Thomas Freidman alluded to in his book. Twitter can be a companies, small or large, communication hub and PR dept all in one.

      http://twitter.com/jjgardner3
    • No fair! You can't do this when I'm in meetings all day. I'm into social media, marketing, advertising, public relations and every aspect of conversations.

      Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/jasonfalls
    • Serena Ehrlich
      I love following your feed! I use twitter primarly to present best practices for PR people when it comes to social media. Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/serena
    • I love twitter it's a really great way to communicate

      http://twitter.com/kathika
    • Daaaaaang, peoplez are goin' CRAZEH. Right there with ya.

      http://www.twitter.com/weave
    • As an Executive Editor for a 200-year old "old media" publishing company, I'm excited to be working on bringing us into the social application space - a tiny bit at a time.

      Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chriswebb
    • I'm an online news student, er, professional, eh, geek/wonk/pundit. I'm very very interested in how professional and amateur journalists are using Twitter and other social networks.

      http://www.twitter.com/gort581
    • Just starting to see the uses of twitter...thanks

      http://www.twitter.com/ahelms
    • Jeremy,

      What tools or method do you use to follow 2,000+ Twitterers? You won't be telling me that you read them all word for word, right?

      http://twitter.com/fairminder
    • Nice idea. Add me @ twitter http://twitter.com/krishnan
    • Hi Jeremiah,

      My favorite usage for twitter is tracking since it has the best signal-noise.

      http://twitter.com/mariosundar

      M
    • love conversations on twitter. http://www.twitter.com/jasonlbaptiste/

      -jlb
    • Twitter is wonderful even for those of us outside of the tech/marketing worlds (though maybe peeking in). I don't have any research to back up thoughts on its "fadishness"--I just know that those of us who use it to connect to one another and to ideas love it. That ain't going away.

      Thanks for this post, Jeremiah! I'm at http://www.twitter.com/arsepoetica, and I came here via a post from new Twitter friend Sourcerer: http://twitter.com/Sourcerer
    • Social media, PR and Marketing blogger interested in, well, pretty much everything :)

      http://twitter.com/socialTNT
    • For many people, Twitter starts out as one thing and becomes quite another. From personal updates, blog post links, to flash polls, announcements and full-blown discussions, Twitter is becoming the social network of choice for the post-college crowd. And that's a good thing, because at 30+ years-of-age, I feel very old on Facebook.

      http://twitter.com/cortland
    • Jeremiah

      Very interesting post.

      Twitter seems to be a sort of virtual water cooler. A lot of the discussion is throwaway, but you get an idea of what people are interested in RIGHT NOW.

      While Twitter itself is important, the secondary effects of Twitter are probably even more important. Twitter captures the attention of many of the most active people in blogging and new media, and this ends up guiding what they write and podcast and vlog about. This secondary discussion, off of Twitter, is helping to shape the Web.

      A lot of Twitter skeptics are put off by the banal nature of some of the discussion. This is really a limitation of the current Twitter clients, though.

      Twitter will become even more valuable when clients are available that let you intelligently filter through tweets for content that you're interested in, follow threads of discussion or that alert you when people are discussing specific topics.

      http://twitter.com/podcasting_news
    • The mix of business and personal with mobility makes twitter perfect for micro blogging

      http://twitter.com/graywolf
    • I don't know if he would add himself to this list, but if you like piano rock from an independent artist who really engages with his fans, consider adding

      http://twitter.com/matthewebel
    • We're already well connected in several places, but this cross-connection via this post is a great idea!
      I agree that Twitter will likely stay very niche overall, but I'm already seeing spouses and SOs of many of my colleagues beginning to use it as well.

      http://twitter.com/trib

      Social media, knowledge management, corporate culture, information architecture and user experience in my patch.
    • Twitter will expand when it allows friend groups and filtering.

      I am already reading a saturation point at 200 or so friends.
    • JO,

      Amazing, 202 comments! Just goes to show you the value of Twitter and we are all drinking the same kool-aid. Still I agree wholeheartedly. Please feel free to follow me at:

      http://twitter.com/warrenss

      Thanks,

      Warren
    • Web consultant, DJ, blogger, lifecaster and internet addict.

      http://twitter.com/ramseym
    • I commented above, but as I was reading I had a thought. There are many new services that are incorporating Twitter into there server. One in particular I love is iwantsandy. It is an awesome virtual personal assistant.
      Check out my review here.
      http://tinyurl.com/29hbnn

      Jimmy
      http://twitter.com/jjgardner3
    • http://twitter.com/EricFriedman

      Thanks for setting this up - great idea!
    • Okay, this totally rocks. I added my name to the comments earlier in the day and have started following (and being followed) by about 50 new people. I figure that if we have Jeremiah in common, we must have something to talk about!

      Just a reminder, I'm http://twitter.com/astrout
    • DK
      MediaSnackers is a site/weblog/project/call to action for people interested in how young people consume and create media across the globe.

      Feel free to follow me: twitter.com/mediasnackers
    • I can be found at http://www.twitter.com/kristiewells

      Twitter has become my de facto communication tool to reach out, vent, recommend and inquire.

      I even walked away from blogging for several months as my Twitter use increased as Twitter gave me a sense of freedom I felt I didn't have before. I always felt when I wrote a blog post it had to be meaty. I had to research the topic I was speaking about. I had to be 'right'. I don't have that with Twitter. I say what is on my mind without thinking 'is this right?'. It is very liberating.

      I also mix business and personal use on my Twitter account which has deepened several relationships I have with my clients. They probably know way more about me than they care to, but at least they know me (supports the whole 'Business is Personal Again mentality that I adore so).

      However, Twitter can be sensory overload as there is so much data pouring in now (good and bad thing) and I do try to keep up with everything the people I follow are up to. Because of this, I find I am happiest when my community is close to the Dunbar Number (150) as I can actually have relationships with the folks that I follow. I am starting to expand it slowly, but at a rate where I feel I can still keep up with what is going on as that is what is most important to me.
    • I only recently became a Twitter user. Now I am completely addicted. I work in the digital cinema space and film industry. I have been trying to find other entertainment industry folks that are using Twitter without much luck. What can I say, we are usually late adopters!


      http://twitter.com/sperling
    • Hey Jeremiah - nice stuff.

      Here I am... http://twitter.com/affiliatetip
    • In my experience, people think Twitter's a dumb idea, until they try it. So try it, and feel free to add me:
      http://twitter.com/KarenRussell
    • We're already following one another, but here I am again, Jeremiah ... let the conversations begin.

      http://twitter.com/imparo
    • colleen
      wow. less than 2 hours ago i was #88. this growth and resulting twitter explosion (as well as the conversation) simply tells me that Twitter is a useful and viable social media app!! Can't wait to see where it goes next.
      Colleen
      (@colleencoplick)
    • When twitter first came out, I thought it was just a time waster. Then, it sort of integrates into how you do things and become not only a social tool but an info tool. I get news updates, weather - all sorts of things there now. I think it has some very appealing business applications as well, including in my former space the online travel category.

      http://twitter.com/stuartma
    • This is incredible. I'm a flamenco dancer, turned medical doctor, turned serial entrepreneur. I am fascinated with working on technologies that help facilitate the evolution of collective intelligence in an effort to crowd-source our survival as a species. http://twitter.com/toddicus
    • The niche feature is one aspect of twitter but what's the best feature for me is how easy it can be to connect with people globally with whom I would otherwise have nothing in common -- except liking how it works.

      I started following people whose posts intrigued me, and it grew from there. Now it's just a part of my day, and I like to contribute from my own unique perspective. I'd like to think it IS unique! But aren't we all???

      You're welcome to add me: http://twitter.com/brightwings
    • J.O,

      Keep up the good work. I'm - sbauman

      Thanks,

      Scott
    • P.S. Now I can't keep track of everyone I follow, but enough to make things interesting most days! I feel there are some good relationships starting to form, though, even with people I don't seemingly have a lot in common with (think tech people and holistic -- not usually found in the same sentences) and that is wonderful.
    • I've been watching Twitter for a while now. I just recently posted on my blog about why I twitter:
      http://tinyurl.com/38fxfs
      Some people find the idea of status to be mundane, but I think the appeal in twitter has become that the seemingly mundane is what makes us interesting. I haven't used my twitter as a means to drive conversations on my blog...yet...but I'm sure it's the natural progression.
      Follow me at http://twitter.com/ryryryry
    • As the fabric grows and expands to include more people, I think the conversation only gets better. In fact, partially due to this particular blog post, Twitter was on FIRE this morning, I had tweets coming at me from left and right.

      There were just a ton of great conversations this morning, and it's those moments when Twitter is exploding that you realize how powerful its platform really is.

      Twitter is the ultimate conversation agent and media disrupter, I wish all the information I've Twittered was on my blog, the knowledge out there is truly amazing.

      If you're interested in more, be sure to visit and follow my Twitter page (I'm a follower of Jeremiah) at http://www.twitter.com/jdcoffman
    • Twiter is the best thing that I do online. The value from the conversations and social media debate is amazing.

      www.twitter.com/kbodnar32
    • db
    • Looking forward to welcoming new voices to Twitter after this post. Very cool, @jowyang.

      http://www.twitter.com/strutting
    • Great post!

      Michael Krigsman
      ZDNet blog: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures
      Twitter: http://twitter.com/mkrigsman
    • Twitter is brilliant. Much better than Facebook. As Vint Cerf said in The Guardian recently, “Regardless of the medium, there will always be demand for high quality content.” If someone could show me where the high quality content is in Facebook, in amongst virtual hugs, games of scrabble and vampire fights, I’ll change my mind. For the moment I’ll continue to read Twitter.

      http://twitter.com/geoff_bilbrough
    • Very useful tool for connecting us social media types and those of us working in the green, environmental and sustainable web world..

      http://www.twitter.com/bestgreenblogs
    • Heather Strout
      Twitter gives me quick snapshots of what people are talking about in my industry (social media/communities) and also allows me to decide what news and ideas I need to pursue further. I like the occasional distraction/entertainment as well. I'm still learning the fine art of tweeting.

      http://twitter.com/hjstrout
    • I missed the main Twitter explosion this morning, as I was in the library all day, but now I've caught up to speed...interestingly enough, someone else asked me if I had seen the rapid growth of this post and I didnt know what they were talking about!

      I think that means I got twittered in real-life!

      Anyhow, count me in the fray:
      twitter.com/acafourek
    • I agree with most of the comments. Twitter is very addictive, and oddly enough, reading twitter messages helps spark my creative energies.

    • The beauty of Twitter is that it enables different types of conversations over a very simple medium without getting caught up in the technical intricacies of transports.

      It lets me track on a much closer to realtime basis what people are thinking and doing. At the same time, one can then have a choice to participate in the thread. If anything, Twitter (and Jaiku) allows for higher quality and more relevant conversations over time (ignoring the initial relatively useless status updates).

      Added to the fact that one is able to interface with apps using the same platform makes it so much more compelling.

      http://twitter.com/jauderho
    • I like what Heather Strout said. I think I'm already there but here is the twitter contact: http://twitter.com/susancellura
    • Yet another example of the shift in web conversation emphasis from content to connection:
      http://changingway.org/2007/11/19/conversation-...
    • Would hate to miss the opportunity to chime on such a big day, Jeremiah! + you've got a veritable who's who of folks commenting. I hope I'm worthy. ;)

      TWITTER: Useful or Waste of Time?

      Um... bit of both, sometimes, but not if you call connecting with other people in as real a way as I've found online as being useful. Also, www.TwitterFeed.com has allowed me to take content available as RSS and post it on Twitter for the company I work for. This means Twitter can act as both my channel for communicating with individuals, learning from them, and finding out about what they find interesting, BUT it can also mesh with RSS feeds. One stop shopping rather than having to follow RSS headlines in a separate reader & then open a different app (browser) for chatting w/ people.

      I do think it's fairly niche right now (though it's just a sense that Twitter is more techies/early adopters & not necessarily youth), but over time Twitter or something like it has the potential for being another powerful communication tool.

      ADDITIONALLY...
      The public timeline element of Twitter is just begging to be mined for useful nuggets of marketing insight. I think about it like this sometimes:

      WEB = library (often fairly static, reference)

      BLOGS = newspaper (more timely, but not 4 everyone)

      TWITTER PUBLIC TIMELINE = eavesdropping on conversations @ a cocktail party

      What folks are saying to each other via Twitter is mostly unfiltered & most people (again, a guess) are allowing their tweets to be seen there. Hence, it's a raw source of finding out if a brand, individual, or anything is getting mentioned/discussed.

      Still, I would love to see ANY statistics at all about size of Twitter in terms of # of users & demographics on those users.


      My 3¢! =D

      twitter.com/ggroovin
    • Guess it would help if I also left my link! I didn't get twitter either at first, but it's been a great tool to connect with people and also swap ideas.

      http://twitter.com/lonesoph1st
    • So strange. I thought I had submitted a comment here, but I can't find it. :-( doh.

      First off, Jeremiah, you rock dude.

      I am a huge fan of twitter. I made a short film about it: http://snipurl.com/1v4ax.

      I also posted my thoughts about Jaiku and Google's plan to integrate it with Dodgeball. The amalgamation of SMS/GPS/microblogging may end up killing Twitter. http://snipurl.com/1v43r

      Finally, I was shocked to see the crazy spike in Twitter traffic after it's debut on primetime TV (CSI): http://snipurl.com/1v43x

      I'd love to hear your thoughts. Find me here guys: www.twitter.com/davedelaney/

      Cheers,
      Dave
    • Okay, how is Twitter, the company, making money again?

      This is all great, but how solid is this foundation?
    • How is Twitter, the company, making money again?

      This is all great, but how solid is this foundation?

      http://twitter.com/jhaggard
    • Nice podcasting with you this morning Jeremiah. For me Twitter is a work-group sort of phenomenon where I can follow experts in my group (Aaron and Jim) or outside my group (you, Scoble, Shel) whose behavior and attention practices I can model (and maybe someday influence). I think Twitter provides another vehicle to address on-boarding, mentoring,and cognitive apprenticeship.

      http://twitter.com/dwilkinsnh
    • Wow, I backtracked to follow this conversation. I'm new to twitter and it's exciting to watch everyone's conversations unfold.

      Please add me to your list:

      http://twitter.com/diettips

      Thank you,
      Lisa
    • I have found Twitter to be an especially valuable socnet. I've made friends, found potential business associates and partners, received referrals to clients, attracted other media professionals who have asked me for blog, podcast, video and print interviews, have been asked to participate as an expert in blog roundtables, and most important, I get breaking news and constant industry information on Twitter. People also "tweet" important conferences and content from guest speakers, which has saved me time and costs in attending all of these conferences myself. Now, I am able to choose the events and conferences that are more high priority for me to attend.

      Best of all, I have met many of my wonderful Twitter friends, business and media contacts in person, by hosting TweetUps, inviting them to meetings of the San Francisco or Silicon Valley Social Media Club chapters, and I have regular conference phone or Skype calls with many of them. This is leading to stronger, deeper friendships and wonderful opportunities to collaborate in business and other creative ventures with people who live across the country or around the world. My friends on Twitter are the cutting-edge "influencers"—and participating actively has given me an ongoing way to educate people about my "brand," values, initiatives and business services and products on an immediate, daily basis. I highly recommend it, and in fact, I have linked my Twitter profile to this post, rather than my regular web sites—but you can find my web sites and blogs linked from my Twitter profile. You'll get a sense of who I am from my Twitter feed.

      Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer, CreativeSage.com (tm)
    • Twitter is a wonderful way to connect with other people in the NOW. I have learned a lot from the people I follow and they have also provided great moral support.

      http://twitter.com/hooeyspewer
    • I have been on a Twitter diet the past few days, having used it to an extreme last week at the Web Community Forum.

      I did, however, find this link on a quick scan of my Twitter feed.

      http://twitter.com/tastybit

      Go mobile with it as well: http://m.twitter.com
    • I'm fairly new to Twitter. Thanks Jeremiah for focusing some good attention on this.

      http://twitter.com/tweismann
    • Nice post J.

      Some of us started writing a short story together yesterday using Twitter to collaborate. We call is a "Twittory". http://www.twittories.com

      http://twitter.com/cameronreilly
    • P.S. to my previous comment:

      Twitter is also very helpful to publicize charity events, raise money for good causes and promote the missions of nonprofits and social entrepreneurship organizations. During my first week on Twitter, I successfully publicized a social entrepreneurship event that was co-produced by several businesses (including mine), nonprofit organizations and a Rotary chapter. The event sold out, and I was able to do community outreach via Twitter.

      Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer, CreativeSage.com(tm)
    • Claire Spina
      I am relatively new to Twitter but thus far it has been really neat identifying and following all the unique individuals that have joined this community. I look forward to connecting with even more folks through this medium in the future.

      http://twitter.com/jerseygrl
    • I'm having trouble with this. On one side, I agree with and strongly acknowledge the value of twitter as you've proposed it. I benefit from it DAILY. However, my follower/follow ratio is 2:1 (yes, thats correct, more people follow me than I follow).

      On the other side...I tried to keep a 1:1 for a while but learned that the value of the stream was diluted. Simply, I had STUFF TO DO, and wasnt able to sift through the volumes of stuff. When you're sub 200 friends, its tough but manageable. Folks that follow more than that, I have either a ton of respect for your management of an info-stream, or a ton of resentment for you for having more free time than I do :-).

      At some point, with a certain number of people conversing, it just becomes noise. I'm sure that number is different for different people.

      I think the most interesting result of this experiment is how many people KEEP all of the followers that they add. Is this friending frenzy sustainable? My hunch is, not so much.

      At least not the way that I use twitter.

      Feel free to friend me, http://twitter.com/alexknowshtml but I can't promise I'll friend back. If I do, well, aren't you lucky!
    • Hey

      Sorry guys, wordpress catches some new commenters, and I have to review and approve them, sorry for delay

      I was at lunch with my old boss John Furrier.
    • You already know this, but...Twitter is the best of all the social media apps for me. I feel like there's always someone there to reach out to, or someone reaching out to me. I've made friends, I've actually gotten a client, and I've felt less lonely since Twitter came into my life. Not to mention being able to find people at conferences.

      Twitter gives a huge return for a minimal effort, and makes the whole idea of community better and deeper. Amazing what you can learn about people in 140 characters.

      http://twitter.com/hardaway
    • Hindsight: I am realizing that I may simply be on the other end of the userbase of Twitter, since my follower/friend ratio is as it is. If your goal is to expand your network conversationally, then by all means, this is one of the best ways and I applaud it!
    • Bizarre. Added 15 "followers" based on comment to this post alone. Definitely not based on my content!
    • Sceptic at first, then dabbler, now a fairly constant user during non-sleeping hours. Starting to look at it more in a productivity/ideas framework than the social chat aspect. Would help if people put a bit more in their profile, especially real names for users with relatively incommunicative handles (such as "beachblogger" :))

      http://www.twitter.com/beachblogger
    • I, too, truly believe Twitter has an opportunity to build a core suite of services to cure peoples desire to share and communicate. Emails and e-vites, to txt and Tweets. Social media = instant collaboration.

      I'm very interested in meeting like minded folks. http://www.twitter.com/dkrutewicz
    • I'm jumping on the bandwagon...

      http://twitter.com/thumbarger
    • Jason Nicholls
      I am not sure whether Twitter content is raw or just spontaneous.

      Whilst blogging seems so thought out and crafted - Twitter seems to be like a comment you'd make in a busy meeting/coffee room.

      I am trying to make my comments more memorable but I think as long as you are posting comments is valuable anyway.

      I have just started a blog but I can't be bothered with it. It takes too much time.

      Twitter does feel a bit like when texting first became popular on your mobile phone. The amount of ridiculous texts I sent just because I could! Oh happy days!

      http://twitter.com/spidernix
    • Jeremiah -- The richness of this thread is overwhelming -- many thanks. I saw your initial tweet about it, but was tied up in meetings all day . . . and now I'm north of #260 to comment on this thread. Amazing!

      Twitter serves a key purpose of community information, like broadsheets used to do in the tavern or the public square. It's just that "our" community is atomized and spread across the face of the earth. One of my fave Twitterers sits six feet from me . . . but other faves are a million miles away. Twitter puts us all on the same village green.
    • Cristi
      Feel free to friend me on twitter:
      http://twitter.com/cristianca
    • I've been using twitter for 10 months now and observing how it has become part of my network and communication tools.

      It's pretty fascinating and I wouldn't rule out more interesting uses of twitter like abilities being the thing that wins out as opposed to 'twitter' proper.

      I love this social media topic so much that I quit my old job to join a consultancy to support their current Information Architecture practice and build out the Social Media practice.

      I just signed up to follow you.

      I'm evoljennifer.
    • As the great philosopher and poet Billy Bragg once said: "If you've got a bandwagon, I want to be on it".

      Heh.

      Seriously, though - wondering if any of the fine folks on this list have ideas (or, better yet, examples) of employee manuals, policies, or "acceptable use" guidelines that include that grey area where work spills over into Facebook, Twitter, and good-old-fashioned IM, etc.

      It's a topic that often comes up in my discussions with clients and one I'm just generally interested in. In addition, a specific issue has just reared its head at one client - an issue that has lit a bit of a fire under my general curiosity about such things.

      They're a VERY clueful client, and really don't want to get into anything heavy handed, but they have good reason to be concerned as a lot of their work involves handling really confidential client-related stuff.

      As Twitter and other nano-blogging, micro-personal-broadcasting widgety things continue to grow, the membrane gets more and more porous. I love that. But there are punters out there concerned about competitive intelligence and other nefarious uses. I'm sure some of the chaps round the table at the Blog Council are having coniptions about precisely this kind of thing. Or, to be fair, the main participants at the Blog Council are probably all cool and Gonzo about it, but the corporate lawyers hovering in the background are breaking into a flop sweat.

      Any thoughts?

      FWIW, we're still looking into things in detail, but I've already told my client (only half in jest) that they should implement "The Earl Gilmore Rulebook" (link to Mitch Ratcliffe talking about something my friend Doc wrote - can't find Doc's original post anymore, dammit).

      Earl's 30-year old advice still stands as one of the best all-encompassing HR policies I've ever come across - but what do the employment lawyers, HR pros and other followers out there think?

      Also, Jeremy - I'm wondering if it's time for you and Charlene to update her old post on blogging policies: http://snipurl.com/1v4g1 ...?
    • Oh, and btw: I'm michaelocc. Duh.
    • I'm relatively new to Twitter, but do enjoy the tweets about social media, good reads and even the innocuous reflections on life. It brings a smile to my face and gives me pause to think "bigger" than my world.
    • For me its the immediacy of the form, and I think the lack of functionality is key, it keeps things so simple. As the founder said "What can you create if you take something away?". It is, in many ways, "the perfect thing".

      http://twitter.com/splashjumanji
    • Marked this post after your tweet this morning. I'm still learning how to use Twitter, but after its use during the San Diego fires, I'm not sure it will stay a niche forever.

      I still like Dr. Mani's description of Twitter as a coffee room (http://tinyurl.com/2l59bt).

      Teeg (http://twitter.com/teeg)
    • I have been using twitter more and more as of late mainly as a source to find information before it hits the blogosphere. Keep up the good posts Jeremiah.

      http://twitter.com/brianchappell
    • My personal twitter community is actually mostly made up of people I know and see on a daily basis. Rather than twitter to blog, our conversations (and there are often lengthy ones) go from twitter to real life and back. It's amazing how much it's grown in the past few months and how much my usage has evolved!

      http://twitter.com/jennjenn
    • Hi Jeremiah.

      I just added you!

      http://www.twitter.com/fussypants
    • Thanks for the add!
    • Bringin up the rear.

      http://twitter.com/jbernoff
    • Hi all, nice snowball Jeremiah.

      I'm working with Tangler who has discussion forum technology. We are currently investigating ways to allow tweets to become debates and debates to get tweet love. Any ideas and interest on this, email me or twitter.com/liubinskas

      Cheers
    • good to meet you at the web community forum conference last week.

      i also have noticed twitter's effect on my blog traffic. it's the number three referrer (behind google and digg) followed by facebook.

      i do wish it supported threaded conversations better. it's actually massively irritating and abominable the way it attempts to link @replies.

      anybody interested in following a political comedian and web strategist who does live twitterage of the debates and more.

      here i am

      http://twitter.com/baratunde
    • It's interesting...there are two ways to look at Twitter:

      1) It's the for the ultra-hardcore blogger-types who want something they can update more often with smaller entries, etc.

      2) It's less intimidating than a blog...and thus, is most appealing for the types who don't want the maintenance associated with a blog.

      Our bet, is that this type of shortform publishing is going to become big...so we've created a place to have 'political conversations' a la twitter at Why08.org...would love to hear what you all think about it.
    • This post and the reaction it's received from the Twitter community is a powerful example of why Twitter has become such an important tool for so many people.

      For me, Twitter is most useful for:

      1. Learning about news before it spreads far and wide, for both industry and general news items

      2. Meeting new people and networking with them

      3. Kibitzing

      Feel free to add me: http://twitter.com/markgoren
    • Twitter is another syndication channel for me, except this one is way more interactive and intimate

      http://www.twitter.com/dhudiburg

      Add me if you are interested in Internet marketing from an Infopreneur's perspective.
    • Christine Major
      Am I too late to join the Twitter Bandwagon? Great post Jeremiah. I will add you to my list now!

      http://twitter.com/cmajor
    • Well, look what happens when I work? I missed a twitter party on Jeremiah's blog! And Dave mentioned me back in #155 - yep I'm guilty of teaching others.

      Networking with people on Twitter is the tipping point for later connecting more fully on Facebook. :)

      http://twitter.com/cbensen
    • While it may remain a niche tool, Twitter, the niches are larger than most but perhaps, more importantly, they are INFLUENTIAL.
      http://twitter.com/servantofchaos
    • I haven't used Twitter very often up until now, but I can see that I have to change in order to keep up!

      Thanks for a great post!

      Allan

      http://twitter.com/ozegold
    • Great post, can't believe how fast and furious the conversation has grown and spread. I'm afraid to see how far this goes :)
      PR/Marketing/Social Media
      http://twitter.com/mosleyppr
    • It's about the cultivation of a global urban tribe - information, networking, conversation, and enlightenment. Engage!

      http://twitter.com/shepherdfx
    • Well, better late then never. 2006 was rise of the Z-listers... I guess this year it's rise of the twitterers.

      It's an amazing chameleon - depending on the context you can bend it to whatever use is appropriate - seamlessly changing from broadcast tool to conversation tool and back again on a whim. It's as engaging as you are engaged.

      And loads of fun too. All in one little 140 character limited text box.

      http://twitter.com/ryancoleman
    • Yes, this stuff is for real.
      http://twitter.com/davidorban

      As lifestreams grow, I am looking forward to the next generation of services, which won't be updated once or twice a day as blogs, or dozens of times a day as twitter, but hundreds, or thousands of times a day. Just as often what matters is not one post, or tweet, but the second order knowledge about them, who links to the post, who reacts and how to the tweet, in the same way, and even more so, these new services won't be for direct individual human consumption, but we'll enjoy their aggregated, and pre-digested results. Machines will generate our lifestream, and machines will read it, but humans will benefit.

      Examples? Here's a couple:
      #1 gps positioning data of where you are to a few feet precision, updated every minute. Benefit: search and rescue operations, dealfinder, you-didn't-know-what's-around-the-corner-you'll-like, ...
      #2 health data, like heartbeats, EEG, etc. Benefit: healthcare, personal relationships, stress management, whoknows?

      And of course these are just what we can think of now. The really cool ones are going to be the surprises out of left field!
    • Oh me! Oh me! I wrote a post a while ago about Twitter for Business - testimonials (updates), interesting links (filtering) and dialogue (stream of consciousness @ stuff). I find it bizarre that some MSMedia twitter channels don't tinyurl to their breaking news. *gobsmacked*. anyway ThisIsWhoIAm :) http://twitter.com/SilkCharm
    • i was led to twitter after reading your post. i'm kind of feeling my way around and hoping to build up my following and followers. most times it's t-shirt related but i'm trying to widen this (narrow) scope.

      http://twitter.com/nick_mun
    • I shunned twitter for the longest time...until podcamp. Now I'm convincing everyone I know to join the cult. No turning back now.

      http://twitter.com/nathanwburke
    • http://twitter.com/nichodges

      Love twitter! Love the conversations!
    • me
      I had signed up for Twitter a few months ago, but really got hooked when I happened upon, in the public timeline, @Scobleizer, who was live-twittering about his son's birth. I've since added familiar folks from other sites. I know one contact person IRL, but feel like I've gotten to know many of my contacts, through searching interests. It's a good way to keep family members updated on what I'm up to, without my calling them every 5 minutes. :)

      Then I got my cellular bill. Just kidding, sorta.

      I'd put my username here, but I feel like I'll max out following around 200 people, unless I separate out the news/non-people tweets from the living, breathing ones. I don't know how folks who follow tons of people do it.

      The company seems very responsive, responding to queries and constantly tweaking and updating features. I'm impressed by the whole thing.
    • You should have seen how many people at LeWeb3 in Paris are on Twitter: nearly 80% of the audience, it seemed.
    • I'm late to the part it would seem. Anyone interested in game design, gaming in general, or virtual worlds should feel free to follow me:

      http://www.twitter.com/davehuston
    • sue
      i've kind of started a little tag line when i add a twitter friend, "i'm getting smarter everyday", i've learned so much since joining twitter! and it's the funniest thing i've done in years!

      http://twitter.com/moto62
    • Sounds like a great idea. Let's connect on Twitter.
      http://twitter.com/Marshall_Clark
    • BTW - I'm a marketing geek with deep experience in Search and Social looking to connect with others in the field.
    • seeing twitter get momentum at sxsw was this years top tech story in my opinion. i've used it to coordinate meetups, ask questions, share links, it's really my #1 communication tool at this point.

      http://www.twitter.com/drewolanoff
    • Jane Perzyk
      I'm fascinated with classroom applications for Twitter. Setting up Twitter groups, a teacher could communicate offsite after hours with his/her class (be it face-to-face or online), and groups could communicate with each other on projects. Perhaps authorities on different subject-matter areas could become Twitterers and become open to question-and-answer communications with groups of students. We're only on the ground floor with this one!
      Follow me on Twitter at MBAmom
    • Here in Brighton (uk) and elsewhere, Twitter is pretty much the daily method of communication between web developers and designers - sharing experiences, asking questions, announcing trends.

      Twitter is devoid of the gloss of more complex social networks. It's dead simple - yet perhaps it's the best example of portable content to date. It has more than 10 times as much use from outside the website than within it, with all sorts of novel ways to interact. Try passing your friends' timelines through Particls - and teaching it which content is interesting...

      I think we'll see more widespread Twitterbots - automated services (robots) that humans can interact with via direct messages between their Twitter accounts - e.g. timer (reminds you of tasks), multimap (tells you where you need to go), or Monitwitter (tells you when your website goes offline)...

      http://twitter.com/premasagar
    • wow, Jeremiah! It seems you have just crystallized the existing community and pushed this whole thing over the edge. It seems everyone has blogged about twitter all of a sudden today. Thank you for articulating this.

      Cheers,
      Connie

      http://www.twitter.com/conniecrosby
    • I am a humble blogger who has gone from 3 hits last monday to 33 hits yesterday, an eleven-hundred percent increase (if my math is right). I blame twitter. Definitely digging this new Web2.0 bidness!

      Alex Brant-Zawadzki
      http://twitter.com/beezling
      http://jomoblog.com
      http://www.stephencolbert08.com
    • I'm in that between-studies-and-first-job-phase and I've mainly been using Twitter to expand my professional network.

      Twitter is great for keeping on top of news and trends, and as you mentioned, news spread faster on Twitter than on blogs.

      Twitter also gives me the opportunity to share and discuss ideas. Another great thing is when people on my list are attending different conferences and are doing live-tweeting from different events. So far I've "attended" many conferences through Twitter, including several podcamps and social media club meetings, SLCC, SXSW and LeWeb3 to mention a few.

      http://twitter.com/awais
    • Sach
      I think micro-blogging has a future - It depends on how the user utilizes the tool...

      http://tinyurl.com/2r8wbt

      http://twitter.com/republicblog
    • callingbull
      Yes! More people for me to...





      POOP ON!

      Just kidding. I'm with alexknowshtml in that it's hard to do 1:1 but that's okay. I typically see all the @ responses to me and if what is being said is interesting enough, I'll reciprocate. Kind of like a first level filter.
    • callingbull
      Oops. Forgot my twitter link.

      http://twitter.com/callingbull
    • Good on you, Jeremiah. I find that the more connections I have on Twitter, rather than becoming distracting or unfocused I'm enjoying a broader context of conversation, and a deeper pool of resources as well.

      I've also updated my iPhone Twitter UI to function on desktop browsers too (FF and Safari, IE coming soon). It adds reply buttons to the timeline, which I find really useful: http://itweet.net

      Catch me on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/colbyworld
    • Feel free to follow me from Sunny South Africa :)

      http://twitter.com/marcforrest
    • I've found Twitter to be an interesting way to interact and pool contact resources in a quick, efficient way. I also love seeing what happens behind the scenes of my favorite bloggers. Just this past weekend I did a 'live tweet' of a music video that I produced and tweet about real life applications for social media in real time. Twitter guarantees that no good idea is forgotten, so long as I take 5 seconds to immortalize it on the web.

      Great post, as always, Jeremiah!

      Jon Ray
      http://www.twitter.com/jonray
    • Some more shameless self promotion
      http://twitter.com/imel
    • Jeremiah,

      Good idea - I follow people with diverse backgrounds, including some from the Netherlands (my native tongue is Afrikaans, I can therefore follow the Dutch quite easily).

      For myself, I use twitter to be informed and entertained, and attempt to return the favor. I've also picked up some valuable web 2.0 development leads from twitter feeds.

      Here is my twitter profile -
      http://twitter.com/fridaytraffic
    • I finally got the potential of Twitter durning the San Diego Firestorm. Thanks to Nate Ritter who was posting up to the minute updates regarding the status of the fires, I was receiving better information on Twitter than what I was receiving from the major media outlets. That put the nail on the coffin for me and I'm hooked for life.

      Still trying to break thru the mold and really start connecting with others on Twitter. If your into creativity, design, coding, social media and everything else in between. Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/wizardElite .
    • Sorry, my twitter profile is actually http://twitter.com/fridaytraffic ...
    • Since I'm having a "trying to see the point of Twitter" day: http://twitter.com/andwat
    • i love twitter & my view of twitter has changed & what i have posted has changed also since more of my friends came on board to twitter. i've been on board with twitter back to the invite days & the only i have to say is this; get your friends involved & it will change how you & your friends talk.
      twitter.com/sam1
      twitter.com/atomant (this is my roommate)
      twitter.com/katy11 (this is our drunk friend)
      twitter.com/erickjch (this is our head hunter)
    • I’m more likely to share a link over twitter, because it’s passive (as opposed to email) which is why we are seeing a lot of people sharing through twitter and a lot of traffic coming from twitter.

      I think twitter works well for that “what is interesting to me right now” quick thought. It is interesting in that niche, and the moment someone’s noise to signal ratio drops low, you can un-follow them.

      Also, according to a friend who’s a little more e-famous then I am has notified me that the right ratio is 4:1 (for every 4 people that follow you, you should follow 1 of them). Apparently that makes you look important on the interwebs.

      Looking forward to joining you all in this conversation.

      Cheers,
      Tyler
    • :)
    • I am not so sure that Twitter is a niche product for a niche audience. I think that a lot of people, if they understood how to use it effectively, and reached that point when they follow enough people and have enough followers and the "conversation" begins, would adopt it. It has a learning curve, but the threshold to start earning a return is pretty low.

      The question is whether that little blue bird while scare them all away :)

      Miguel
      http://twitter.com/miguelrodriguez
    • This is a great idea. Thanks for being a social connector, Jeremiah.

      http://twitter.com/scottmonty
    • I've got to agree with what you are saying here. A lot of us in my community use it as a means of communication between eachother as well as a conversation tool/starter.

      http://www.twitter.com/jeffl
    • Jeremiah's post may help many people pass a tipping point (twitting point?) with Twitter. That raises a question about Dunbar's Number, also called the Rule of 150. Essentially it states that we are capable of having about 150 social relationships with some level of meaning/significance.

      I've always been fascinated by Dunbar's Number because I believe it relates to the point at which fast-growing organizations find that things no longer work. (Dunbar's Number is a factor of that org size, not a definition of it, since it's not necessary to have a relationship with every single person in an organization for the company to work effectively).

      What happens as our Twitter lists grow beyond 150? What does the ratio of followers to followed say about us? Are people with many followers who follow no one truly 'free riders', as some have implied? Or are they missing out on the very real value of following others?

      Musings, not answers. I gave my twitter id above, but to reiterate if you haven't added me I am http://twitter.com/hoovers
    • Better late than never, right?

      http://www.twitter.com/acarvin

      I've also started encouraging NPR shows to start using Twitter. The most prolific is probably the Bryant Park Project:

      http://www.twitter.com/bpp
    • I am using Twitter more and more these days, especially to keep abreast of and find out about tech related events and other happenings in Houston, tracking the keyword Houston has been quite insightful (minus references to Whitney Houston that is). Feel free to follow me at http://twitter.com/jaseone
    • Al
      Hello Jeremiah and all others. Yes, a white-labelled Twitter with internal and external comm. links makes sense. Let me know if you hear about it. http://twitter.com/Alvarrr
    • Count me in! http://twitter.com/williamsba

      I'm in to social networking, web 2.0, developing, internet, blogging, and anything web related
    • Excellent microblogging / Twitter discourse here.

      I'm game for new Twitting mates: http://twitter.com/jillfoster
    • Late to the party, but I'm in.

      http://twitter.com/jeffcaylor
    • jeremiah - i use twitter for much of the above: asynchronous discussion/debate, code & concept feedback, discovery of likeminded people, news tracking, and general intellectual exploration and relief.

      always game for new twitter gang members:
      http://twitter.com/philmang
    • CZ
      Twitter Tuesday was a busy one for me, but a busier one for Twitter, thanks to Jeremiah's post.

      http://twitter.com/cz
    • Happy to join. I'm in.
    • Birds of a feather, twitter together:) I compiled a list (of those I know of) of Atlantic Canadian Twitterers on my blog as well.

      http://twitter.com/walkinggal
    • I thought it was a joke when it first appeared on the scene, but I've grown to really like it. Twitter let's me easily follow my friends and companies – all in easily digestible snippets.

      We even use it to post mini-entries for our Raven SEO Tools Web application: http://twitter.com/ravenseo
    • Jon
    • w00t! approaching 400 comments.

      http://twitter.com/thomashan
    • Joe Pendry
      Building my twitter network basically as a result of this post. Good stuff.

      http://twitter.com/joependry
    • Guest
      Spiderpig needs to get in on this action! Show your support for the Simpsons by following me. More funny Simpsons related stuff to come.

      http://twitter.com/spiderpig
    • Ant
      Let me hear you...let you hear me:

      http://www.twitter.com/Soulsailor
    • I'm still trying to tweet at twitter. I'm hoping I'll get the right bird call.
    • @Jeremiah: You know you are a superstar when you can cause Twitter to slow down!

      @Everybody: If you are interested in social media + marketing + pop philosophy, add me on Twitter at twitter.com/gauravonomics.
    • Chad
      I like the conversation twitter.com/chilldc
    • Fashionably late. Any food left?

      http://www.twitter.com/badbanana
    • It's amazing to see the explosion of this thing. I've been following the dialog with jeremiah and david armano regarding twitter and it's amazing to see it hit a tipping point so dramatically.

      http://www.twitter.com/wishiels
    • Boy, I go off and do client work for a day and miss the storm of the century!

      If it's not too late, I'm at:

      http://www.twitter.com/sink
    • I am personally still not a fan of Twitter. Why would I Twitter when I could basically do the same thing with a Facebook update?

      Too much noise on Twitter, IMHO. I also don't like the concept of "followers", largely due to the fact that someone you follow won't return the favor per se...

      I also find the limitation of Twitter "tweets" to be too restrictive. How many people do you know that can actually pass along valuable information in 140 words? I can only count Abraham Lincoln & a few others in that arena:)
    • Late, but game. Trying to change [the energy] business from the my corner of the world - Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines.

      http://www.twitter.com/nicknich3
    • Jeremiah

      Isn't it interesting that IM isn't social enough -- we needed instant messaging in bulk to our communities of practice to give us both instant gratification for the connectedness we all miss in our busy lives, and our long-tail-knowledge-discovery-sharing goodness.

      I'm looking forward to reading more of your tweets.

      http://www.twitter.com/magia3e
    • Damon

      Twitter is a chat room. Facebook updates are not. It's really a different tool.
    • Great idea Jeremiah

      I normally look at who the people I respect are following and take follow them. Plus tweetscan is a good way to understand who is taking part in conversations.

      http://www.twitter.com/jonnybentwood
    • I thought this might be a good point to introduce to Twitter some of the communications community that may not quite understand what we all see in it, so I posted this on my MyRagan.com blog.
    • Here you go:

      http://www.twitter.com/stephagresta

      I was out of pocket these last few days. :( missed the storm. But I will make sure and get all these great folks on my twitter.

      I heart twitter!
    • Twitter continues to change/evolve my daily workflow.

      http://www.twitter.com/jjtoothman
    • Twitter is amazing! I've used it to buy a roomba, to communicate with friends, find them at conferences, and get the news before going out to the website to read it.

      Find so many great uses! Including promoting SearchMarketingGurus!

      http://www.twitter.com/storyspinner
    • Ok, update, started with 60 followers, HI ALL MY BLOG WORLD EXPO PEEPS! (spending 50% of my time off blog) and now have over 260. Great Post Jeremiah. Watching everyones tweets and getting all this great info and good conversation is a blast. How have you managed scaling up with all of your followers?

      Now if Apple would just fix my iPhone I would be so happy...

      http://twitter.com/darinrmcclure/

      Do you follow me?

      Darin
    • i so agree with this

      http://twitter.com/frankarr

      and i tweet much more than i blog
    • Wow, I started to type a comment back at 32...and got distracted. Now I'm at ~400! Wonderful post and the comment hashing has been tremendously informative and additive as well!

      Twitter does so much, yet if it could make it snow I would sell what's left of my soul to it ;-) It appears to own a good chunk of it already!

      Great post!

      http://www.twitter.com/davidlaplante
    • Amazing that the trackbacks are coming in sequence now.

      It's pretty clear that blogs are much slower than the Twitter network. But is fast better than slow? Josh Bernoff would question that.
    • Rock on! I'm DC Music Fusion
      http://twitter.com/dcmusicfusion
    • Walk on over to the watercooler. http://rurl.org/e0e

      […] So back to our story, one of the people we have been following on twitter is Jeremiah Owyang […]

      Aloha Jeremiah,

      Lisa A. McClure
      http://twitter.com/lisamcclure
    • Christopher Coulter
      Most conversations, matter nought, this thread being a prime example.
    • http://twitter.com/LenEdgerly

      Wow. This is quite a Twitter party! Though I love tech, I tend toward Tweeting about the arts and wish there were more artists to follow. Tweets from a painter struggling with a transition, a poet looking for a word, reactions to a play. I'm sure civilians will follow us early adopters to the space, all in good time. Thanks, Jeremiah, for this inspired twit-tsunami!
    • I recently discovered Twitter, and have quickly become addicted. One, because I've ended up with too many blogs to read; two, because I like the simplicity that the 140-character limit facilitates; and three, most of the people I follow use it for far more than their current status: it's actually a window into their mind and life. What will I do for a whole 12 hours today?

      Please follow me: www.twitter.com/pbrantner
    • Just catching up to my favorite links from my twitter stream. This post is great! I have been on everyday for the past month and a half and have made some great connections. Follow my and I'll follow you back. Cheers - www.twitter.com/bradcoy
    • Very addicted to Twitter - I call it "micro-blogging" when describing to friends. They don't get it - my wife thinks I'm SMS'ing my "mistress". But - she see's my tweets now - such as on a slow train home.

      I like that it's "niche" - until the Tweet-spam gets too much.

      Have new friends & buddies from Twitter'ing - it's like the old-school bulletin boards from early 1990's - but only one line long.

      And stuff like 140 chars X 140 people to create a story - like www.twittories.com - that's just cool !
    • Well written and demonstrated. As a designer / marketer, I know that the new wave of media is not just aesthetic -- it's how the media interact with one another AND the user.
    • This comment list is just amazing!
      For me Twitter is becoming part of my daily communication.

      feel free to add me:
      http://twitter.com/etorsten
    • Jeremiah, Thanks for always giving very specific explanations and links that help me better understand what you are talking about. I've been following the twitter craze, but have had a hard time figuring out how to integrate it into my lifestyle. i finally joined today after your encouragement. I look forward to learning more from you and the community you are helping to organize.

      http://twitter.com/kathrynmilette
      -anyone interested, feel free to add me, and talk to you soon
    • building out twitter connections. In particular - interested in continuing conversations with enterprise software marketing/product management folks - as well as twitterers actually in the IT operations space.

      http://twitter.com/jonahparansky
    • I am not part of the typical "social media savvy " crowd. I actually joined trying to learn more about everything, and since then have been hooked.

      What Twitter has done for me, is opened up my little "niche" of drag racing into a completely different set of eyes. Drag Racing/Auto Enthusiasts are also a very tight niche based people, and learning about people outside this sphere, and inversely being able to share my passion with others has been tremendous.

      http://twitter.com/HorsepowerHeels >> Add me if you'd like!
    • Simon Chen
      Hey Jeremiah - nice observations!

      It's probably referenced somewhere in this post/comments but I wanted to say that I really like how Clive Thompson wrote (in a recent issue of Wired) that "Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception." Here is the link to the online posting of this article:

      http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-...

      I'm at http://www.twitter.com/sylc - love to tweet a hey back to you!
    • Hi Jeremiah fantastic job and a great idea!

      I’m at http://www.twitter.com/chiefhothead
    • Hi Jeremiah,
      Twitter allows me to share bits about human capital and personal development, corporate training, instructional design, and the management and technology strategies that bind them. This allows me with reminders to blog posts that I will talk about at a future time. Also helpful with quick discussions with students outside of my classroom

      Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/robinyap
      Blog at http://blog.robinyap.com
    • Sign me up - twitter me bowlofcheese
      Watch my blogs:
      www.bowlofcheese.com
      www.thingstoworryabout.com
      www.jeffcutler.com
      www.189riders.com

      Thanks,

      Jeff
    • wow. @jmetcalf27
    • Forgot to include this:

      http://www.twitter.com/studionashvegas

      I'd love to join your conversations!
    • Adam
      I love twitter. I found out my friends neighbors apartment was on fire the other day since I get breaking news alerts. I got a twitter about the fire and then an hour later it was on the local news. I track my state and people are constantly twittering about traffic and road conditions.

      My twitter name is agershenbaum for anyone wanting to add me.
    • Jackie
      I'm a Producer/PM for global brands and was previously using gonzibonzis as my username. I've since changed it to fooz and wanted to make sure that I posted it. I'll be launching my revamped blog soon and you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/fooz/.

      Twitter's great, but I think the Asian crowd isn't really picking it up yet - perhaps a good thing for now.
    • Ivy
      Feel free to follow me:
      I'm pretty new to Twitter.

      http://twitter.com/IvyEnglish
    • Live near Atlanta, 55 yrs old. Just asked local Tweeters if they were going to the Yo la Tengo show this weekend. May meet a couple there as a result.
      Mrs. decaturcomp thinks this is goofoid. Perhaps, perhaps.
      https://twitter.com/decaturcomp
    • Been playing with twitter this new year having finally got it funnily enough because of Facebook's status. You learn by doing. It is addictive and keeps you up to date with the conversations and news that you are interested in - just follow a few key networkers and you'll be on top of things.

      There are lots of little ecosystems within it, whether based around geography or interest - technology obviously being a major area that early-adopters or slightly-later-adopters like me are interested in.

      Seems to me that Twitter is exploding this year, so I wonder whether it will fragment, be sucked up, be outshone, fall over or go from strength to strength.

      If you want to follow me, I'm here:
      http://twitter.com/MarmaladeToday/
    • I'm interested in hacking and startups and always looking to connect with more people with like interests.

      http://twitter.com/shalunov
    • Great exploration and conversation
      @mikesansone (http://twitter.com/mikesansone )
    • Hi guys, i'm the commercial director in a social media firm here in the UK, add me at www.twitter.com/joshuamarch
    • CortneySellers
      Hey! Am working my way through this list... Thanks Jeremiah...

      I am interested in all things internet, but mainly interactive and web stats...plus more... follow me I'll follow back too!

      http://www.twitter.com/cortneysellers/
    • hey, all - I'm a tech startup consultant, blogging at Tech-Surf-Blog.com ... follow me here: www.twitter.com/GraemeThickins
    • Hopefully this won't generate more followers than I can keep up with, but I'm going to take the plunge here:

      http://www.twitter.com/dtennant
    • It's not a niche. It's a tool. I see twitter becoming indispensable for journalists, educators, mediamakers, entrepreneurs as well as marketers. I haven't felt this sense of growing community in a long time -- since the blossoming of the blogosphere. http://www.twitter.com/hrheingold

      "Tuning" the list of people to follow is essential. And feeding useful as well as entertaining info to one's community of followers is important. I try to share useful links along with my reflections and activities. I know that I spend part of every day bookmarking many links I find through the twitterverse.
    • Jeremiah~
      Thank you for linking your past blogs on twitter so late adopters like me can catch up.
      Joy~
      Jeanette
      http://twitter.com/jeanettejoy
    • Howard's comment is on the mark. There's a balance between keeping a diverse flow of content in your Twitter stream and diluting the signal to noise ratio to the point where you simply can't keep up with the volume.

      Here's a tip for early Twitterers looking for interesting new people to follow: initially, turn on the option to view all @replies from all people you follow. This will give you a chance to peek into others' conversations, find people outside of your current follow network, and get a feel for the variety of styles and manner of discourse found within people employ.

      http://www.twitter.com/ericlitman
    • Ken Burbary
      Thanks to everyone for all the great links. I couldn't agree more. Becoming a heavy twitter user.

      Tweet me: http://www.twitter.com/kenburbary
    • We're the creators of PimpMyNews.com, a "talking" web 2.0 newsreader on steroids with social news functionality.

      It let's you listen to the web's top blogs (vs. read) on your computer, iPhone, iPod or any MP3 player to get current anytime, anywhere.

      *We're using Twitter to get early adopter feedback - would love YOURS. (we act on it fast)

      Follow me & I'll do the same: http://twitter.com/JohnAtkinson
    • Hi guys, i'm the commercial director in a social media firm here in the UK, add me at http://www.twitter.com/joshuamarch
    • Alex -S-
      Hi, I'm Alex and i'm a twitter addict! I like to think i contribute something to the "greater good" but also hope i turn folks on to some new tunes by tweeting with foxtyunes!

      I have a mere 26 followers and my goals to have 50 by the end of the day. of course the only way you'll find out if i make that huge goal is to tune in to twitter :)

      See ya in the twitterverse

      http://www.twitter.com/asimpson
    • Hi Jeremiah,

      I’m already following you, but here’s my Twitter link anyways: http://twitter.com/gauravonomics

      Looking forward to 500 new friends.
    • Aprille
      I'm looking forward to connecting with more people on twitter. So far, most of my tweets are either "what I'm eating/feeling" or frustration, but I'd love to get into more interesting social media/ marketing/ community conversations - and indie music, too!
      http://twitter.com/eileen53
    • Amy Worley
      I've long been following you on Twitter (and this blog), but I'd love to expand my Twitter interactive marketing and social media network.
      You can find me at http://twitter.com/worleygirl
    • Jeremiah - just blogged about this: http://www.jaffejuice.com/2008/02/twitters-pote...

      My experiment is to see how quickly I can gain 1,000 followers (I'm currently on 943). I'm giving away 1 hour of conversation/consulting in return.

      I've tweeted about it and blogged it (I have almost 5,000 feeds). You have 3,476 followers who are obviously on Twitter.

      Why not tweet about my experiment and see who activates quicker?
    • Ken Cring
      So, does this mean you don't want to know what I had for lunch? I do find Twitter a bit addictive, though not too bad. I can stop any time I want. Really. I can. Stop looking at me like that. I'm www.twitter.com/kencring - I'm in an old school model (ink on paper) but love the new means of communicating. Still trying to figure out how to follow a conversation. (Please pass the user's manual.)
    • Jeremiah, Beth Kanter shared some link love to you verbally in a presentation she gave in Portland. I then set up an account, checked it from time to time, and got hooks, in no small part because of the value you're providing in the land of titter. Thanks my friend.

      http://twitter.com/drewbernard
    • I like Twitter, I'll like it more when it isn't limited to early adaptor/tech types.
      http://twitter.com/markmayhew
    • Hi Jeremiah

      Something's definitely happening on Twitter. I've picked up about 15 new followers in the last couple of days - before that I was running at one or two every few days.

      Keep up the good work by the way - your blog is a constant source of good, useful info.

      Cheers
      Mike

      http://twitter.com/mike_ohara
    • Jeremiah,
      I'm still convinced that Twitter will continue to find relevance outside of just marketing/tech niches. Add me to the list.
      www.twitter.com/johnherrington
    • I’m on Twitter. I’m at http://twitter.com/haripako
    • I have to agree with @adelemcalear who commented earlier. As a virtual employee working at home, Twitter is great for keeping up with the latest juice from like-minded professionals!

      http://twitter.com/jeffglasson
    • first at the party, last to leave.
      http://twitter.com/Psychobel
    • I'm worried about the signal to noise ratio too, but I have to say I'm getting tremendous value out of it.

      Add me to the list, for sure. I mostly tweet about coworking (LaunchPad Coworking in particular), technology, transparency, culture, and social networking tools. Minimal personal stuff but when I do it's usually about dogs and Austin.

      http://twitter.com/juliegomoll
    • Good value out of Twitter. Twittering about starting a self funded company and challenges. Formerly a Big4 exec so it's a big change. Have previous experience with startups so loving getting back into the swing of things.
    • Jeremiah, you have obviously struck a major chord. The response here is amazing. As for twitter itself, the more I use it, the more useful it becomes.

      I have already started adding new people to follow.

      http://twitter.com/pixel8r
    • http://twitter.com/jyarmis

      Ah, the advantages of a unique name. I'm jyarmis on just about any platform you want to look. :)
    • I started using Twitter last week and I can see the potential benefits of it if its used right. I've been following a few folks and the info I see that's getting posted is info that normally wouldn't make it to a blog.

      follow me at: http://twitter.com/juandelreal

      current interests which I'll Twitter about include: blogging in general, web marketing, amateur photography (I gots me a Holga and a dslr), iPhone stuff, San Francisco and Silicon Valley
    • Its amazing to see that even with the re-posting of this the flood of people adding their Twitter accounts in the comments... people like me who missed the first wave for one reason or another, are now on board! Yeah Jeremiah!

      http://twitter/crbrowning - value all and follow you all back!
    • Twitter has changed many lives. More is not always better but in Twitter's case it is.
      http://twitter.com/convagency
    • I left for a while and then came back this year as I got more involved at work and needed an outlet to connect with my PR/marketing peers.

      Plus some brands I like are on Twitter and learning about deals on WestJet does interest me as a traveler.

      http://twitter.com/duanebrown
    • I've written a few blogposts on how to use Twitter (by no means definitive). But the thing is many friends of mine just don't get the need to use it, which I think is unfortunate. Hopefully this really grows as a connecting medium in the near future!

      http://twitter.com/uniquefrequency
    • It took me a while to get into it, but wow, twitter has been amazingly useful. I found this post today and started connecting with a few interesting people here...within 20 minutes, one of the people I started following reciprocated and in turn referred an entrepreneur friend of his also in raleigh...he emailed me and we are going to meet later this week for coffee. How awesome is that?

      Anyway, feel free to follow me at: http://twitter.com/neogence

      I'm particularly interested in virtual worlds, MMORPGs, simulations, AI/Alife, social media, collaboration, social networking, etc. etc.
    • This was just sent around my agency. I can't believe I'm nearly the 500th person to comment, and a couple months after it started. Jeremiah, you're a human meme.
    • http://twitter.com/davidtillinger

      What an interesting social experiment this is turning into. Nearly 500 entries. I've been looking for away to increase my twitter followers/people to follow both to publicize my blog and to really get to use the twitter system
    • Some really interesting folks observable via their postings. (Though I feel a bit stalker-ish looking.)

      Most of my friends don't use Twitter, and for the life of me I couldn't discern the value for a long time. Enjoying it now for a few different reasons, and finally understand value even for things that don't apply to me, which feels embiggening. :)

      Mostly I'm loving the vastly increased number of links and great content I'm exposed to now.

      http://twitter.com/melledotca
    • Mike Kujawski
      Hey gang, feel free to add me as well. My specialty is social media marketing and communications (especially in the public sector) as well as personal branding.

      http://twitter.com/mikekujawski
    • Thank-you Jeremiah for sharing your insights. I am also new to Twitter and UK based, a novelist and creativity/writing coach, fascinated by the growth of social networking and the connections it enables. I'm interested in creative inspiration and growth, literature and art, marketing and productivity. Particularly interested to connect with UK based Twitterers.

      http://twitter.com/jacquilofthouse
    • please also count me in. my twitter name is:

      http://www.twitter.com/soistdas
    • I am a twitter laggard so your insight and these comments serve as a great primer. Thanks for the info.
    • http://www.twitter.com/streetforce1

      I hope to meet and follow some cool and interesting people. So check me out and follow me and I will ad you back.
    • A day late... a dollar short.
      Step away from Twitter for a day and the world passes you by!!

      I'm a twitter addict, advocate, and active tweeter. I'm always looking to connect with others who are enjoying the Twitter conversation.

      Social media should be social.

      http://www.twitter.com/GeekMommy
    • Great article Jeremiah - I use Twitter for a variety of things - personal thoughts, company business, but most of all I'm interested in Twitter as a "back channel" concept.

      http://www.twitter.com/itsDono
    • Fantastic stuff. I, too, am a convert to the Twittering ways.

      http://twitter.com/DaveHamilton
    • Let's learn all sorts of wonderful things from each other! I follow anyone who follows me!

      http://www.twitter.com/kibbekibbekibbe
    • I was enthusiastic at the beginning, then vaguely disappointed, but now I've made a few interesting contacts and I'm encouraging my friends online to join in the fun.

      I have noticed that when my Blog Update comes up, I get Twitter traffic (nothing like yours!!!)

      http://twitter.com/solstice1954

      Translation (serious), current affairs
    • Jeremiah, this is great stuff. This will be a compelling set of datapoints and reference for my regular chats arguing that Twitter is a key communication medium. Thanks!
    • Twitter provides a potentially beneficial outlet for information and conversation. It just depends on how you use it. Adding your "friends" and acquaintances as you do on Linked-In/Facebook is not going to work here. You need to follow people who have similar interests as you. Yes of course there will be a sprinkling of random musings, but generally if you choose people who have an interest in social media, aviation, films, etc you will get a much richer experience.
    • Jeff Hertlein
    • Twitter is great. However, I think the next feature they need to add is a filter for your friends. Kind of like a feed reader has folders. There are some people that I want to read every tweet. Others that I want to skim over daily and then what I call firehose which is a blast of everyone I've followed.

      Follow me http://www.twitter.com/techguy
    • Twitter is like a quick press release limited by 140 characters [used to be the limit of a short text message]. One thing of concern is the non-verification of identity. For example the guy claiming to be Bill Clinton is not real Bill Clinton there - which he has made obvious though.

      My interest is search engine, related marketing, data mining, and anything intellectually interesting.

      Anyway, here is my profile [http://twitter.com/AAfter I reciprocate friendship.:
      Cheers!

      Subhankar Ray
    • I was far from interested in Twitter when I first heard of it. Then, on a journalism 2.0 blog I read a recommendation to join Twitter among other social media sites. I didn't get it. Then I signed up. Still didn't get it. Then I found using the search box to find others interested in similar issues, or in specific geographic areas brought me into a whole conversation that had been going on the whole time WITHOUT MY INPUT. Well, I couldn't have that. So, I followed and have been followed in return. Now, I have to force myself not to constantly check twitter. And I want all my friends to get on it. Unfortunately, not many of them get it.

      Yet.

      I'm interested in freelance writing, journalism, poetry, entrepreneurship, san francisco, career changing, and creativity of all stripes. Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/cpomme and I'll turn around and follow you right back.
    • Liz
      I'm just dipping back into this thing called life after some time away, and I'm starting to become too obsessed with Twitter. I didn't really get it at first, but now I'm fascinated! My interests are wide and varied and sometimes as micro as twitter. So let's connect and see where this thing takes us! Follow me and I'll follow you: http://twitter.com/lizwebpage
    • Jeremiah,
      I'm an early adopter of so many new technologies and social interactions. Twitter takes a small part of facebook that so many love, the status message, and built an entire app out of it and then shed the API for further expolitation. I love it and love your blog too. Great post.

      You are already following me, but for anyone else interested...


      http://twitter.com/weinberg81
      and
      http://twitter.com/geniusrocket
    • Great post. Twitter continues to be an interesting tool for me. It's not as useful as I'd like, but it does have merit.

      If you're interested in marketing, communications, and eclectic thoughts, I hope you'll follow me.

      http://twitter.com/grinandgrumble
    • Simply loving it :) I get to stalk thought-leaders based on their thoughts. It's fun :)

      http://twitter.com/zazwallace
    • Thanks Jeremiah,

      I'm an occassional Tweeter and particularly interested in social media and cultural arts institutions. Follow me and I'll follow you.
      thanks
    • This is like the yellow pages of Twitter. And a great resource to connect with marketing and SM people.

      http://twitter.com/adamstewart
    • http://twitter.com/jamati

      Check us out at Jamati.com or follow our twitter feed to get updates from our site.
    • What a wave of connections! This is fantastic. Follow away: http://twitter.com/kcolbin
    • Veronica Giggey
      I missed this post last December and really missed out! I have been building my Twitter list by seeing who people mark as favorites and who people are having conversations with. Now I'm going through 515 comments to see where there is more overlap.

      http://twitter.com/giggey

      I do have one question. As your list grows, do you feel you would like to be able to group your followers? At first I thought I did, because I wanted to send a message to only a few people. Later on I realized I would begin to silo my information and lose from the whole package and Twitter experience. If everyone started doing that I wouldn't know about @jowyang's flood disaster, @mukund's love for Lightning McQueen, @astrout getting in trouble with his wife for Twittering too much and all the things @DougH got to do since he didn't attend SXSW. What do you guys think? Is there room for groups?


      Veronica
    • I started twittering a few months so I too missed the December post...

      Twitter is so much fun and I enjoy all the new connections and conversations

      http://twitter.com/thetimediva

      Ann Rusnak
      "The Time Diva"
    • Cool post.
      Just wondering what it takes to "cross the chasm". I can report back that Twitter helped me with recruiting.

      See: http://randgaenge.net/2008/why-twitter/2658/

      I'm http://twitter.com/thobu
    • I have always been a social media junkie. Whatever ways people to find each other for fun, communication or commerce are fascinating to me. I love to tweet.

      I'm http://www.twitter.com/lisarokusek
    • You could count me in as well. Twitter became my link feed a long time back and I use it primarily as a personal tool to help me crawl the vast web 2.0.
    • hmm...as usual my absent mindedness..my Twitter id is http://www.twitter.com/robinjabraham
    • I can't believe this list is so large. I agree with some posts that if the number of following gets too high it does in a way take away from the experience. Perhaps twitter will introduce categorization options in the future as subscribers increase. Anyway, if you are interested in Social Media, Technology, Film, or Travel add me and I'll add you back.
    • Thanks for helping us newbies to network!

      Joining the fun
      http://twitter.com/skimbaco
    • Yep, Twitter almost rivals my RSS feed reader as a source of timely news, and it's more personal & easier to have a quick conversation around something.

      Interested in organizational collaboration and wiki use? Follow me!
      http://twitter.com/slmader
    • Jeffrey Kemp
      Twitter convert #526. Been using for about 2 months - it's now one of my main sources of news and trends. I can't imagine it changing anytime soon. most of the time I read it on the go.

      Is anyone tracking the conversations? How would a marketer track their brand on twitter?

      http://twitter.com/jgkemp
    • I'm getting pretty addicted to Twitter these days!

      http://twitter.com/chrisblackwell
    • I've joined twitter last year, but never quite used it because most of my friends aren't there yet. But then I figured out that lots of interesting people were using it to exchange ideas, thoughts, knowledge and such, so I'm back there and even more engaged.

      Thank you Jeremiah for this nice post full of nice people! :)

      Btw, anyone who wants to add me and discuss about social media, technology, music, movies, screenwriting, culture in general, etc., I'm at http://twitter.com/leonardocsouza
    • Jenna Woodul
    • Follow me and I'll follow you back - http://twitter.com/chrisblackwell
    • JC
    • Hi Everyone -

      Please feel free to add me to your twitter and I will follow you back.

      http://twitter.com/stemato
    • Add my name to the list! I'd love to connect:

      http://twitter.com/jessestay
    • Also, if you're interested in automatically following those that follow you, register at http://socialtoo.com - it will take care of it all for you!
    • Michael Stewart
      Hey
      Follow me and I'll follow back - http://twitter.com/stewartizer
    • Marco Hansell
      Add me in there I absolutely love the personal and instant microblogging movement that twitter has created.

      http://www.twitter.com/marcohansell
    • Jeremiah,

      A great and insightful post. Now I've just gotta educate my wife as to what Twitter is all about.

      Add me and I'll follow back: http://twitter.com/wyliemac
    • Here's a post that I did on developing Twitter followers. http://tinyurl.com/ynjt9u


      Hope you like...and add to it! What are you doing?

      Always looking for more tweeple for conversations!

      www.twitter.com/jefftippett
    • Twitter is a great resource. Thanks for posting this, Jeremiah.

      http://twitter.com/time2simplify

      (Marketing, Web and biz; currently shaking things up at a BigLaw firm)
    • Hi Jeremiah,

      Great Post! I also posted a blog recently on how/why I use twitter: http://blog.cybner.com.au/2008/01/so-why-do-i-u...

      Feel free to Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cybner

      Catherine Eibner
    • Michael
      Twitter rocks! Social media, web 2.0, let's do it!

      Follow me & I will return the compliment:

      http://twitter.com/marcand
    • Like others commenting here, I'm looking to expand my twitter conversations. I've been very impressed with the discussions on social media, technology, politics, silly observations and personal tidbits.

      http://twitter.com//tomturnbull
    • cathy wright
      Was introduced to twitter a year ago and didn't quite get it, but now I am intrigued. Not being a geek, would love to see other conversations and communities here-like the art world etc. Definitely curious about marketing potential.

      If that resonates with you, add me in!

      http://twitter.com/cwrc11
    • I am still trying to get hold of twitter....I need to be able to respond to particular tweets and follow conversations (I know there is a toy that does that...just haven't had the opp. to run with it yet.)

      I look forward to joining the social computer :)

      http://twitter.com/yzard
    • Jeremiah this is an awesome idea. I look forward to connecting with everyone.
      http://twitter.com/garyware_619
    • Jeremiah, great idea. The tools provided to find others are a bit crude. They make you work for it.

      http://twitter.com/kentlangley

      Bio: Scalability | Technology Operations | My House | Web Infrastructure | Social Networking

      SF Bay Area

      I look forward to adding people from this comment list. Thanks!

      -Kent
    • Twitter is fun. I meet new interesting people and learn about a lot of different things.

      I think Friend Feed will also become very popular.

      Blogger/Marketer

      http://twitter.com/warner444
    • I added a group for Twitter users in LinkedIn. Group is Tweeple. You are welcomed to join us there and build your network!
    • Jacob Frew
      Thanks Jeremiah! Great Idea. I look forward to connecting with others.

      http://twitter.com/warhawke
    • I recently heard about Twitter and have to agree with most everyone on this posting that there definitely could be great potential. I went ahead and added a few fellow social media/marketing addicts that posted here and want to offer my info too.

      http://twitter.com/DominiqueT

      I look forward to some great conversations and connections.
    • Michelle BB
    • Wow...lots of twitterers!

      http://twitter.com/93octane
    • whoaaa...

      so many people to follow. so many comments.is this new record?

      http://twitter.com/pico
    • I'm interested in networking some more with others, but is the age of the original post too old to do so? I feel that in some ways the web is now become like a hurricane that moves from place to place unexpectedly, before moving on and leaving a wasteland...

      http://twitter.com/thunderberry
    • http://twitter.com/dimensionmedia

      Interested in social media, wordpress, front/back end coding, etc.
    • http://twitter.com/seanodotcom

      Greater Philly area. Interested in PHP/MySQL/jQuery web application development.
    • Just starting a new blog on the nexus of social media and green (sustainable) living. Will be focusing on the crossroads. Definitely starting with a Twitter counterpart: http://twitter.com/maxgladwell. In a testing phase right now but will quickly evolve to more substantive conversations.

      Count me in
    • I was a skeptic for a while, but I fell in love with Twitter after watching the way people were using it at SXSW to make the panels and speeches a completely interactive experience.

      I've also found it a great way to get friends (old and new) to my various blogs. I've always felt a bit pushy sending out emails or even myspace bulletins when I want to tell people about a new blog post or video I've made, but the informal atmosphere of Twitter makes it a perfect medium to let people know about new content without being obnoxious.

      My Twitter's http://twitter.com/expresident
    • It's amazing how far the Twitter community has come in just a few weeks, driven by @jowyang and @scobleizer and @garyvee and @kevinrose

      It's changed the way I communicate significantly, and I've been a Web consultant since pre-Netscape.

      I disagree with others re: Twitter being a niche. It's immediacy and convenience can connect smaller, more closely knit communities (families, "real" friends, students in a particular class, et al) in ways that email cannot. The many to many nature of it makes it incredibly useful for that type of sharing.

      I literally can see it becoming big with older users. If my Mom only followed me, my brother, and her friends, I'm certain she would find it hugely beneficial. Build it into hotmail (or jaiku into gmail) and it will take off among the non-technical. Also, I believe the Air clients like Snitter and Twhirl might ultimately succeed big-time with non-technical users.

      For the marketing/tech folks, "discovering" new ideas through following is the key, but for regular folks, keeping the following to a minimum will be crucial.

      Happy tweeting.

      @jaybaer
    • Jason Buss
      http://twitter.com/jjbuss

      Greater Minneapolis area, interested in recruiting, social networking, and branding.
    • Always interested in connecting:

      http://twitter.com/GretchenA
    • Look forward to connecting with you.

      http://twitter.com/henryl
    • I always enjoy your posts! I love twitter and connecting as we travel the world!

      http://twitter.com/soultravelers3
    • Tanya Nichols
      Thanks for the intro to twitter! Joined yesterday.
      http://twitter.com/cre8tn
    • I love the updates Jeremiah - I hope to see you at the TechCrunch party on Thursday night - @mwalsh
    • Thanks for the informative intro to Twitter. I am hoping to figure out a way I can help a non profit I work with using twitter to get more followers and supporters. I'm open to suggestions.
    • i came across this post a couple of times, no twitter newbie, but still looking for interesting conversations about web2.0, social networks, entrepreneurship, seo and online marketing in general...

      http://twitter.com/marcuhlig
    • I am also late to this blog.

      http://www.twitter.com/hella
    • ******************************************************************

      I've noticed an influx of new users, there's clearly a change now. I consider everyone above this line to be 'early adopter'

      ******************************************************************
    • totally. and it's overwhelming. would be very curious to see a comparison of posters vs readers -- it's become a slow synch chat!
    • Twitter is about as web 3.0 as you can get. It is a tool like no other on the web. (for now)

      tweeps, follow me here: http://twitter.com/m38967

      Missy.
    • I had signed up for Twitter soon after it came out, but didn't know many people on it, and couldn't figure out how to take 15 seconds every once in a while to update it. Now, there are many more software clients, add-ons, and more ways to tweet, so that helps.

      But what tipped it for me was hearing about it again at SXSW and how Twitter is great at connecting people during a conference. So I started tweeting at the next conference I attended, and I get to over a dozen each year, and I found it most useful (for me) in that context! And, yes, having links to drive traffic is also a nice bonus.
    • I've been on Twitter for over a year now. I kind of get annoyed at people saying new twitter users are "early adopters".
    • I agree that Twitter is becoming creating the cocktail party/coffee house effect with anyone being able to share with others-- and learn as well

      http://twitter.com/LAStory
    • I tell (twitter?) people that I'm not an early adopter, but the canary in the cage for the mine for the masses.

      http://twitter.com/craigritchie/statuses/794566038

      follow me, fellow strategists.

      twitter.com/craigritchie
    • I have not seen a particular growth over the last weeks. There has been an incessant growth since it started - the data flow has increased to become close to unmanageable via Gtalk for a human being.

      It's is quite simple why it appears to have such success - it does not ask people to do something they were doing differently - it allows people to do something they were doing already, or aspiring to - only on twitter and nowhere else.
    • Although I signed up quite a while ago, it's only now I'm seeing the power of Twitter (http://tinyurl.com/67n3ds). This blog is in my RSS, and I read it when I can. But the immedicacy and collaborative nature of the tweets during events (in particular) is not only a powerful communication mechanism, but can also potentially energize a virtual community and create momentum.
    • Been on Twitter since Dec. 2006, and am loving the way it's taken off. I'm an author and a student; convo on my Twitter is way random. Feel free to add me. http://twitter.com/chanceofrainne
    • Amazing!

      This post almost a "Twitter's 2nd sign up page" or "Twitter testimonial page". It also like a digg topic with a longer tail.

      Everybody here sign up for "twitter's going on". Just great!
    • I just started on twitter right before the web 2.0 expo and am now hooked and see some great potential here. I also think it will be for certain niches, and agree with people like Leo Laporte who wonder whether this will further create echo chambers in terms of how info is fed to you.

      Regardless, the conversation is interesting.
      I'm interested in social media, social software, and am an offerings manager at IBM. I also play percussion and love to meet other drummers. Would love to connect with others who are interested in the same.

      http://twitter.com/brenny
    • Marketing Consultant from Italy, interested in conventional and non conventionale marketing, strategy, social media. Twittering in english and italian languages.
    • Thanks Simon, I agree, it’s certainly very niche.
    • it allows people to do something they were doing already, or aspiring to - only on twitter and nowhere else.
    • Todd Defren suggested Twitter to me on Facebook as a way to learn from social media/strategy/PR2.0 folks and see what they do and learn from that

      The rest as they say... well, I'm not gonna say it!

      I'm trying to be the 600th comment here, but it probably won't come out that way...?
      Anyways, maybe if I wait a couple of seconds?

      http://twitter.com/marioOlckers
    • I am hooked on Twitter and I use it to document the complex angst driven pain that surrounds my existence. I guess I am already on the look out for the hybrid...

      http://twitter.com/MarkBorkowski
    • Always looking to expand my network...been a fan of Twitter since it was in private beta.
    • can someone tell me is this gonna be another social networking site..

      ---------------
      dave collins
      Wide Circles
    • CoreIndex.com is a trade portal, market place and trade point for US and Canadian exporters, importers. We are leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services.
    • Agreed. There are also Tweeter grading tools like TwitterGrader.com. This grades twitters according to the power and authority they have based on number of followers.

      Combined with vertical grading tools, companies and brands may listen better and formulate strategies that are specific to their industries.

      twitter@chipo_madusise. Feel free to follow me.
    • Yvette Valencia
      Excited about interacting and learning from others.

      Come follow me @: http://twitter.com/yvettevalencia
    • Advocate and attorney for the disabled seeking federally funded or private disability benefits.

      I share tips on how to increase the chances of winning your disability claim.

      Follow me @: http://twitter.com/Ken_LaVan
    • I think twitter is a great website, I follow people on there all the time, I like to see what there up to and if they use it properly it actually is a lot of fun.

      Twitter: http://twitter.com/shoptimesaver

      Site: http://www.shoptimesaver.com
    • I am facinated by the amount of useful information shared on Twitter. My tweets are aimed at helping your business succeed in this ever-evolving world of technology.

      Follow me @ http://twitter.com/wedowebcontent

      Thanks!
    • If it gets any worse for email, it might be uncool to say email like its uncool to say "world wide web". twitter and facebook are two very visionary tools.
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