Comments on: Why use Twitter? What is the point of Twitter? Twitter Usage? Answers here!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:55:58 +0000

After doing an extensive test on twitter, well i asked my followers several questions, relating directly to my twitter page.

The page is about Cars. I have over 1,000 ‘followers’. And i asked questions that any self-respecting Car Lover would know the answer to. How many answers did i get? Zero.

Should i rest my case, as well as my Twittering?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:29:47 +0000

Twit – I have now been embedded into the laziness of society that I can’t waste 20 seconds of my precious time looking through results – So I use 10 seconds to type my questions into Twitter.

I totally agree, of course you can find things out via search engines – if you couldn’t we’d be out of a job – my point being is that people are turning to Twitter (whether we like it or not) to ask their followers questions – regardless of the fact that you can find the information yourself – or have we just become that lazy?

By: Twit

Twit — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:51:51 +0000

3 minutes to find out what Google can tell you in 20 seconds? Hmm. Here’s Jeremy Paxman’s page:

http://twitter.com/jpaxman

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:48:50 +0000

Following celebrities can be addictive, and some of them even tweet you back, but there are a lot of fakes on there. Check out http://valebrity.com/ for a list of celebrities that have been validated, or follow them on twitter @valebrity.

By: Aaron Wall

Aaron Wall — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:44:57 +0000

Twitter is a tool of popularity because of its simplicity and because of the way it joined in the search market, simplicity is the key, functionality has been boosted, Twitter is like many tools that will live its days in the limelight before receding.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:43:23 +0000

@Jill – I stand corrected – Is Twitter the new search engine and Twittering the new robots?

I will undertake an experiment to use Twitter in place of Google this week. Andy will be running it and maybe at some point you may want to get involved. – We will submit the results here.

Thanks for your time and help Jill.

Sam

By: Jill Whalen

Jill Whalen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:51:10 +0000

@Sam I had the info because I had just heard about that new directory earlier at another site I frequent (Sphinn). I didn’t search anything. Just happened to have heard of the new Twitter directory, new they had a celebrity section and happened to see Andy’s tweet asking if anyone knew any celebrities that were on Twitter.

That, my friend, is the beauty of Twitter!

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:25:52 +0000

But where did Jill Whalen get that info from? Did she search Google? (google is like Kevin Bacon, you’re never more than 7 steps away from it).

By: Julianne Nokes

Julianne Nokes — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:10:15 +0000

Twitter is kind of additive – I find myself constantly logging in and posting tweets – although I’m not really sure what the point of it all is!

By: Twiggy

Twiggy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:28:57 +0000

I like the article. I have a Twitter account but did not know what to do with it for a long time. To be honest, I think it van be a little tedious seeing pointless feeds from people telling me that they have just had a above average cup of tea (I guess I could stop following them??). Using the search facility seems a great way to see “whats happening on the street” and I have come across some good articles that I would not have found in my Reader. Do you think it’s just a craze that will setttle doen though?