Comments on: Reality Check On Twitter

By: Twitter: What and Why « PR and the city

Twitter: What and Why « PR and the city — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:03:33 +0000

[...] Dave Fleet suggests, “What’s more (let’s be honest) we self-censor a lot less on Twitter than we do on our blogs. That’s not a negative - Twitter’s format lets us share links and thoughts much more easily than blogs do. Still, that means I post links and thoughts on Twitter that I wouldn’t write about (on my blog).” [...]

By: Mario Bonilla

Mario Bonilla — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:23:00 +0000

Great post Dave. I am a baby boomer that feels like a fish out of water sometimes when I speak to techies about their needs on line. But what I do know puts me head and shoulders above 95% of the people I see everyday. They have no NEED to blog so extensions of that like Twitter have no place in their world.

By: Jay Moonah

Jay Moonah — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:48:19 +0000

Totally true Dave, although I do think Twitter changes the way many people blog. Many short, sharp, pithy potential blogs of a sentence or two have probably migrated into Twitterland. Nothing wrong with this: new media channels that are worthwhile always change other related ones but they almost never kill them.

While I have no doubt Twitter and microblogging will grow, blogs will be with us for the foreseeable future.

By: Jason Falls

Jason Falls — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:35:24 +0000

Amen, brother! Sing it from the roof tops. I’m continually mulling over the difference between what we inside the technology bubble believe to be true, effective, etc., and what the real world knows to be. On example is a recent social media/traditional online advertising effort I was a part of. The social media element drew some great attention, but the click-thru rate on the banner ads brought just as much, in fact a little more. (Weird circumstance, compelling banner ads, but still.) If only we could detach ourselves and see the world through the eyes of the consumer more, we’d all be better.

By: Ike

Ike — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:18:27 +0000

Aye!

Here’s my litmus test: Twitter is only for the hard-core, the “do-it-yourself” people of social media.

If I absolutely had to, I could talk my mother through the procedure of configuring an email account. I could also talk her through subscribing to an RSS feed. She could instantly get value from those actions.

Twitter? It’s a total roll-your-own environment. It’s all dependent on who you track and the subjects and diversity of topics you can tolerate. I can’t tell her how to get value from Twitter. It’s for the individual to discover.

Twitter is less about the technology, and more about the community. And that’s why there’s such a relatively small pool ready to run with it and evangelize.