What is Good with Twitter

Posted on February 1, 2007 
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Over the last several days Twitter has crept into our lives in huge way. Is it good that a critical mass are now watching each other? I have my thoughts and I will post them over at my personal blog, but I ask you as a PSU person, what do you think? There have been new connections made via this silly little piece of technology, but when do too many people spoil the party? Is this even a worthwhile question? Just something to throw out to the community … please don’t make us look dumb by not commenting — if you do, we’ll just delete the post and move on ;-) Let us know.

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3 Responses to “What is Good with Twitter”

  1. Brad on February 1st, 2007 8:58 pm

    briefly..

    The bad:
    interruptions can make it hard to focus.

    The good:
    increased sense of community and knowledge of what is going on in the organization

  2. drs18 on February 2nd, 2007 6:50 am

    For me and my flow, typing and reading is intrussive. It requires a complete refocusing that is hard to get back from so that work can continue again. My work suffers, and far from letting folks know what I’m doing, twitter exposes the fact that I’m obviously having a creative/focus lapse. To post, I must come to a halt.

    A keyboard command that, with one click captured my screen and posted the image in the blog, might be something that I’d be able to show what I’m doing. I’m not social, my work tends to be personally rather than collaboratively focused, and the bar room style community that grows out of this thing is petty, juvenile, occassionally fun, but far from positive in the current version.

    I also question the idea of “connections.” Possibly connecting has changed, and I’m out of the loop. For me, this is not a conversation, not a connection, and only provides a crude parody of meaningful human interaction.

  3. Mark on February 9th, 2007 8:23 pm

    My take:

    The good (or bad, depending upon your perspective):
    It’s not really about you knowing what I’m doing… it’s about me knowing what you’re doing.

    The bad (or good, depending upon your moral fiber):
    Does that make me a stalker?

    The ugly:
    One-way communication went out with the telegram. Seems like there could be ways to use this productively (I liked Wendy’s idea about mentor-tracking), but until it evolves into something useful I think it’ll struggle to get past “tech-novelty” for most people.

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