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GCrites80s
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Posted 10 months ago # -
Columbus Music Co-op
Columbus
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I use twitter all the time for events and to interact with supporters of the Columbus Music Co-op. As a small nonprofit business owner, Twitter has gotten more and more useful for me lately. Just my experience.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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myliftkk said:
Over the last month, I keep revisiting the idea that Twitter's usefulness has already peaked and is quickly heading downhill in terms of providing social leverage to its user.Comments, thoughts?
On a more serious note... I'd say the usefulness largely depends upon the user and the use. Twitter is a pretty flexible tool that I've seen used in a large variety of ways.
Speaking personally, I barely use it for personal use, though I've managed to pile up a decent following. The Columbus Underground and Metropreneur accounts though have even larger followings and we use them to delivery news headlines and direct traffic back to our sites, which is very useful in terms of our business strategy.
I imagine that some people have gotten tired of the concept of twitter and are waiting for whatever comes next, either through an upgrade to twitter's service or through something else coming along like Google Plus.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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I use it for personal use & find it super handy.
I can stream in news from umpteen sources, hitting on & investigating things that are pertinent to my interests; chat with friends; find out restaurant specials/retail sales; contact companies for assistance (AT&T, believe it or not, is a champion at this - by far the best way to contact them); and in general, pursue filling my information junkie brain with as much stuff as possible.
Also, using it to connect with new people & generally be involved in stuff cannot be discounted. I have met more people thru twitter (and by association, CU) than with any other method. Some of those people have become really good friends.
Posted 10 months ago # -
myliftkk
Columbus, OH
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Walker said:
On a more serious note... I'd say the usefulness largely depends upon the user and the use. Twitter is a pretty flexible tool that I've seen used in a large variety of ways.Speaking personally, I barely use it for personal use, though I've managed to pile up a decent following. The Columbus Underground and Metropreneur accounts though have even larger followings and we use them to delivery news headlines and direct traffic back to our sites, which is very useful in terms of our business strategy.
I imagine that some people have gotten tired of the concept of twitter and are waiting for whatever comes next, either through an upgrade to twitter's service or through something else coming along like Google Plus.
I don't think it's the people that aren't satisfied that have caused the platform to peak, I think it the mass adoption that has pushed it over the peak.
I'd wager the average twitterer's account is more likely to look like visual cacophony than a sensible stream of communication threads. If everyone is generating content, inferring that no one is consuming it (I mean really consuming it), does the content even matter?
I read an article lamenting the dying off of forums the other day (debatable, cuz there's lots of good ones still around), and one thing the article didn't mention, but is certainly a feature of forums is that proper curation (done as it were by admins) is key to many forums' success. Twitter lacks in the way of real curation options (other than the choice to follow/not follow), and that I think is quickly become a soft underbelly for it. Sure, you can self-curate via tools, but the point of admin curation was that you didn't have to do it (someone with a vested interest did it for you).
Sure, a follower can join your feed, but what if they also join a feed that posts information, of whatever degree of usefulness, on a more frequent basis. What's the likelihood your feed breaks through the white noise after a few more feeds are added to the mix? Just anecdotally, it seems like Twitter is fast becoming White Noise Central.
Even using the Weiner example, if that fanatic stalker hadn't been following Weiner's every move during every second, what's the chance he would've been exposed? When a politician can tweet his dick to a group of followers and only one unhinged person notices, haven't we reached the definition of "a tree falling in the forest"?
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