Twitter or not twitter

That is the question. Interesting conversation on Techmeme.

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

An important guide.

• Part #1 - What is Twitter?
  • Why You Should Start Using Twitter Right Now
  • What is Twitter?
  • What’s the Point?
  • Twitter is a Broadcasting Service
  • Twitter is a Mobile Communication Tool
• Part #2 - Socialising With Twitter
  • Is This Business or Personal?
  • How Can Twitter Help My Business?
  • How to Get Twitter Followers
  • Useful Twitter Accounts to Follow
  • Keeping the Noise Down
• Part #3 - Using Twitter Properly
  • Twitter Technicalities
  • Twitetiquette
  • Using Twitter for Marketing
• Part #4 - Twitter Tools | Platform-Specific
  • Mobile Tools
  • Windows Tools
  • Mac Tools
  • Firefox Plugins
• Part #5 - Twitter Tools | Web Applications
  • Productivity / Useful Apps
  • Map Mashups
  • Just for Fun
• Part #6 - Hacking Twitter
  • Pimp Out Your Twitter Profile
  • Funky Twitter Mashups
  • Twitter Groups
• Part #7 - Multiply Your Twitter Audience
  • Publicize Your RSS Twitter Feed
  • Twitter / BloggingMashup
  • Third Party Twitter Integration
  • How Twitter Promotion Can Go Viral

Newbies Guide to Twitter

An interesting guide, very complete, by Chris Brogan.

One Laptop per Child on Twitter

"The idea is every tweet with the word 'olpc' raises a euro. With the script up and running the first laptop had been bought within an hour! The original plan was to leave it at that, but it is so successful they keep going and by midnight (twelve hours later) 1463.50 euros has been collected. Three laptops were donated via other sources. In the end 2883.50 euros were collected, good for 21 laptops."
(Don Crowley)

Twitter: the good use of it

Twitter can be usefull if you don't use it too much. Too much twit is boring. Too little is not good either.

It comes down to not posting too often and not posting stuff that’s not interesting to others. Posting things like, “Going to the bathroom again.”, or “Heading home from work.” is likely to make people stop following your account — or even unsubscribe from Twitter altogether.
(from Dmiessler)

Richard MacManus (RWW) is twitter addict

"I'm a Twitter addict now (username is rww) and I've started to experiment using Tumblr as a personal blog."

He considere twitter one of the most interesting web apps of the year.

Twitter, one of the 6 most promising start-ups, according to the Guardian

For The Guardian, twitter is of the six most promising firm of the Internet.

"Twitter is about the intimacy of details," said author David Weinberger. "Through it I see small events in the lives of friends about whom I otherwise might only learn the big events when we catch up after long intervals."

Crucially, it has also been picked up by businesses as an easy way to push messages out to their customers.

Co-founder Ev Williams helped popularise blogging with Blogger.com before selling it to Google in 2002.

Microbbloging (= twitter) is one of the Trends of 2007

Steve Rubel noticed 3 trends on the Internet in 2007.

One of them is microblogging. Microblogging is twitter. Twitter is THE name you mention about microblogging.













Twitter occured more often than blogging on Google trends .
"What's fascinating here is that searches for Twitter surpassed for "blogging" in April and never looked back. Meanwhile, news volume for the two are neck and neck. Twitter is particularly strong in Japan. That said, interest in micro blogging has dropped off dramatically this (nearly 50% off their peak in the spring)." (Steve Rubel)

We can ask the question: is there money to make on blogging?
Microblogging is done for speacking with others, being linked with them. Only for pleasure?

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Twitter is a magic tool. A magic world. A magic land of friend and conversations.
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