Comments on: The Great (or not-so-boring-and-somewhat-interesting) Social Networking Experiment

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:48:00 +0000

Oh geez! Now I hope I'm not offending people on Twitter. I talk about what I eat, what the kids are doing, and what projects I'm working on. I consider it all encompassing though and it sparks some great conversations I might not have had otherwise -with people I might not have met otherwise.

Lori, get in touch with me I'm Nikki_S on twitter. I'm reading all your social networking experiment posts now!

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:58:00 +0000

I’ll find you, Kirk!

I have to agree. There’s an awful lot of “I’m tired” or “What did you eat?” tweeting going on. I saw one tweet where the “tweeter” was complaining about businesses using the technology to “bore” her. Her overactive ego issues aside, I’m concerned about the obvious imbalance that exists. If we bloggers have different motives, no big deal – we just gravitate toward those we’re in line with. If Twitter followers don’t have the same goals, is there more of a chance for offense or misunderstanding?

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:40:00 +0000

Twitter has plenty of good uses, but the least interesting or important thing you can do with it is use it to post what you're doing at any given moment. Unfortunately, the field for entering Tweets appears under the words, "What are you doing?"

Look into third-party Twitter extensions. I use Tweet Grid (lets me follow a variety of topics simultaneously), Twhirl (better interface than Twitter, and will alert me when I get an incoming Tweet) and TwitterFeed (automatically tweets a link to each of my blog posts).

Lori, what is your handle on Twitter? I'm KirkPete ...

By: Georganna Hancock M.S.

Georganna Hancock M.S. — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:48:00 +0000

If anyone would know, Lori, it would be Bradley! When you find out, please share it with me. If I understand Twitter correctly (and it’s highly likely that I don’t) I can’t for the life of me see why anybody would be interested in updates on my activities … or where I’d find the time to post them!

Georganna @ A Writer’s Edge

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Bradley, I’d LOVE to talk to you about this! I need some “insider” views – can you help a girl out?

By: Bradley Robb

Bradley Robb — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:03:00 +0000

I love Twitter, though I’m a fairly active user.

Best piece of advice? Don’t think of it as microblogging, think of it as a new communications medium. Like email, cell phones, and faxes before it – twitter has it’s own rules and uses. However, it’s up to the user to determine how to take those rules and make them work.

By: Angie Ledbetter

Angie Ledbetter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Pass the bitin’ bullet, please. I’ve been putting off the whole Twitter thing, but know it’s coming soon. (Is this strange…my 19 y.o. daughter has never heard of it, and neither have about 5 random people I asked in a restaurant. She’s done FaceBook and MySpace for years, but accused me of insanity when I tried to describe Tweeting. Could it be this old woman is about to be ahead of the techno-curve? That can’t be.)

By: Carrie Wilson Link

Carrie Wilson Link — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:20:00 +0000

I just wrote a whole post on Facebook! FASCINATING what/whom you can find!