Posted: August 9, 2008 4:38:30 pm
I'm normally a big fan of social media. It fascinates me and I've been able to see a lot of personal and professional benefits. For keeping in contact with friends and following bands I use MySpace. For professional contacts I use LinkedIn. Then of course there is Ink, great local social media site.
Twitter seems to be all the rage, but I've never really gotten in to it. Seems like a great concept. You build up personal or professional connections and send short frequent updates or questions to your entire network in one go. People can view those updates, and chose to respond, instantly via PC or cell phone. Mass instant communication is a user defined group.
Focusing on personal use, I can see the benefits. Let your friends know where you're headed, see if anyone wants to join you, recommend a restaurant where you just ate a great meal, heads up on a great party, food or drink specials, even a great sale going on somewhere. Really pretty endless possibilities.
So today i finally gave in and decided to start Twittering. Signed up at Twitter.com. Uploaded all my email contacts. Here's the problem. I uploaded over 900 email contacts. All people I know personally or professionally. Out of those 900 people only 6 people have Twitter accounts. Six, that's pathetic! The media hype Twitter as the bigest social media trend. There are huge social and professional networks in on the east and west coasts. Is it just not popular in the Mid West? Is it just not popular with the people I know and secretly everyone else uses it? Come on people, Twitter is tagged as a "phenomenon", surely more people in the KC area must be using it?
I'd love feedback if you use it, if so how you use it?
If anyone does use it feel free to add me: http://twitter.com/benasmith
I'm interested to see the type and frequency of updates people post and how it gets used.
Twitter seems to be all the rage, but I've never really gotten in to it. Seems like a great concept. You build up personal or professional connections and send short frequent updates or questions to your entire network in one go. People can view those updates, and chose to respond, instantly via PC or cell phone. Mass instant communication is a user defined group.
Focusing on personal use, I can see the benefits. Let your friends know where you're headed, see if anyone wants to join you, recommend a restaurant where you just ate a great meal, heads up on a great party, food or drink specials, even a great sale going on somewhere. Really pretty endless possibilities.
So today i finally gave in and decided to start Twittering. Signed up at Twitter.com. Uploaded all my email contacts. Here's the problem. I uploaded over 900 email contacts. All people I know personally or professionally. Out of those 900 people only 6 people have Twitter accounts. Six, that's pathetic! The media hype Twitter as the bigest social media trend. There are huge social and professional networks in on the east and west coasts. Is it just not popular in the Mid West? Is it just not popular with the people I know and secretly everyone else uses it? Come on people, Twitter is tagged as a "phenomenon", surely more people in the KC area must be using it?
I'd love feedback if you use it, if so how you use it?
If anyone does use it feel free to add me: http://twitter.com/benasmith
I'm interested to see the type and frequency of updates people post and how it gets used.
