Twitter Update

Having just finished writing the follow up to my previous post on Twitter Do you Tweet my computer crashed. It was insightful and funny too. I don't have time to do it again so here are some of the highlights:

- John was right - I am willing to accept that Twitter is quite engaging / addictive
- As long as companies are honest and provide human responses then it can be a successful strategy
- Automated responses such as BigPonds original foray will create a major backlash
- Following celebrities makes you feel like you are having a conversation with them (along with 200,000 others)
- Some people take it too seriously
- You're only as good as your last tweet
- To get lots of followers you should be funny, famous or informative (ideally, all 3)
- Everyone follows Stephen Fry, Lance Armstrong or Britney

Powerpoint

If powerpoint is dead - what else are you meant to use? It's probably not ideal to turn up to a credentials presentation with just a business card and a couple of good stories. I know that you shouldn't read from the screen but a few suitable pictures can surely enhance the storytelling. Maybe I should just twitter everyone attending. Doubt I can cut my whole presentation down to 140 characters but I guess it's worth a shot.

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Do the spaces count? Think that's 140. I think this might just work.

Do you Tweet?

It seems that the World is all a twitter. Everywhere I turn these days Twitter is being proclaimed as the new 'Facebook' of Social Media. Twitter describe themselves as "a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time." All this in 140 character bite sized chunks.

Maybe I am missing something but why would you want to know what your friends are up to 24/7? What would you talk about when you do catch up (in real life)? I am sure there are some interesting people to follow on twitter but who has the time to update it continuously?

It will be interesting to see what the future holds for Twitter. It certainly has had plenty of money invested without having produced any revenue whatsoever. According to Wikipedia Twitter cetainly has plenty of advocates. 6 million people surely can't be wrong? They obviously just have more time than me.

I will persevere with it and let you know if I become hooked but i've not got my wings yet.