Comments on: Frustration level: High

By: catalin

catalin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:18:29 +0000

Twitter is more and more known worldwide, but still, there are people who have no idea what it can do and I think it will take some more time before everybody will stop using using that cliché.

PS: Sorry for the typo above.

By: catalin

catalin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:17:12 +0000

Twitter is more and more known worldwide, but still, there are people who have no idea what it can do and I think it will take some more time before everybody will use that cliché.

By: Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:41:14 +0000

When I presented Twitter recently, I stuck to talking about filtration methods—search operators, mainly—and got a lot more "aahhs" from the audience. I don't think people really understand that you hear what you want to hear. Once they see that Twitter is more of a police scanner that scans everything from anywhere and not a personal diary for 300 million people, it clicks a little more.

By: Twitter is what you make of it. - Stephanie Romanski

Twitter is what you make of it. - Stephanie Romanski — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:35:14 +0000

[...] trying to convince some of my coworkers and small business folks to embrace the Power of Twitter. I wrote about that yesterday but in the comments, someone said that he is not finding very much of value when he uses his [...]

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:31:25 +0000

Hmm. I hadn't thought of doing something like that. But you have a very good point. My frustration is directed mostly at the use of Twitter for my newspaper and/or businesses. Twitter for personal use can be a whole different animal. I'll see what I can put together. Thanks for the idea!

By: Kieron

Kieron — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:23:34 +0000

I kind of have this problem though, I've tried using Twitter but with little success. I'm using it as an individual rather than for work or on behalf of a company. By 'success' I mean 'what I'm getting out of it"
Recently it seems more that I'm following a handful of famous people who interest me and it basically acts like another facebook status news feed, except for people who are too famous to be my friends on FB.

I'm quite happy to accept that I'm doing it wrong, but I don't really know how to do it right. Have you thought about putting your lecture into a blog post format, and give us beginners / numbskulls an idea of who this can be so useful? (or would this remove a revenue stream for you?)

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:58:19 +0000

I think the problem is that Twitter was basically "What are you doing?" – some people took it literally and would post what they had for brekkie/lunch/dinner etc. But it's like the media writing about this have glommed onto that despite the evidence that Twitter has moved beyond "What are YOU doing" and into "What is happening in the world right now?"

By: Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:17:31 +0000

I think we all get this on a fairly regular basis. I came across a quote recently—and I'm going to screw it up horribly—but the gist of it was, "stop using the phrase 'real life' to distinguish between talking in person and talking online." The point being, when you interact online, you are interacting in "real life". Carry yourself online the way you carry yourself in person.

Would you yell out to a crowded room what you had for breakfast? Then why would you do that on Twitter?