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I kind of like it just as a random little comment posting tool. Little things like what I'm doing, or funny links I've found. I tend to find the people I'm following do the same kind of thing.

It's hard to see how it can be monetised in anyway though, there's a pretty huge uptake of use for it but I'm not sure how the developers (Obvious) can make any money from it. Not that making money from it has to be a requirement or a priority but there must be a fair bit of infrastructure to support. They've mentioned possible paid-for features so it will be interesting to see what they would be.

I'm sure a lot of people will get bored, and it certainly can be a distraction to use. I had to stop using the Twitterific client on Mac because it was just too intrusive, I like to be in control of when I view Twitter activity.

I'm using it to keep people up-to-date on my website as to what I'm doing right now. That's really the only practical usage I see it for right now, because my website is under heavy development, and it's a nice tool to keep people updated without making post after post. I haven't really been able to get my friends into it though.

I dunno, I just find the concept interesting. It's neat to be able to see what some of your friends / favorite bloggers are up to while you're aimlessly browsing the web, and it also serves as a great but quick distraction while you're doing homework.

Ex: While I'm writing this, Paul Stamatiou is cleaning out his MacBook's hard drive. =P

My Twitter profile.

You can either use Twitter as the old "What I did today messages", or you can evolve it as well as a private broadcasting system for your thoughts, your work or things that you want to share with people like say beta test invites and what nots.

Twitter works yes. Whether people work with it is another story. Just as blogging works, whether people blog about exactly what they are doing word for word or whether they use it for their thoughts or news is the same issue.

I use it though, but I haven't gotten the hang of it yet. I will soon though. Everything evolves, even our writing styles.

It's an interesting concept, I'm with winnopeg. (awesome name by the way). However, I'm with half of the blogosphers when I say I don't see any real value in it. It's certainly a different approach to getting news and such.

Imagine one of your friends is the first person to see an green, glowing asteroid in some Indiana corn field, posts about it on Twitter, and he becomes famous. That's different.

But practically, I don't see any real pupose in it. And I'm not very keen on the text-formatting of updates (snide, irrelevant remark that comes from the bowels of my OCD)

I've never used it, but from what I've heard you just post short messages to give your peeps an up to the minute idea of what you are doing. If I'm wrong, then my comment is worthless!

I can think of a few ways that this concept could be monetized. The first idea that comes to my head is that businesses could use such a system to track employees. I'm not talking big-brother type tracking, but another system to communicate your location. I know cell phones are easier, but I'm sure you get the idea! I think if they tried hard enough, they could market this concept to the right people!

I read an interesting article about how it's the collective stream of consciousness that is so appealing.

I've become Twitter mad over the past few days, because it works:

1. all my favourite people are 'around' somehow, but
2. no need to blog, or read posts, no need to actually chat or comment...

It has great appeal to me. I can now blog about the 'serious' stuff I want to address, and have my other thoughts just go with the flow, being picked up, or not, by others as they please. No expectations, no disappointments.

The great advantage as I see it: that it's not my blog.

I tried it out for a short while and then stopped using it. Even used an app called Twitteroo to update in an easier fashion... but then I lost interest.

I have found it pretty cool for livecasts. A friend of mine used it to livecast a surfing championship while he watched the live stream.

SXSW prolly had some livecast going and I bet even Apple presentations of new products could use a live tweeting session :)

Other than that... it's pretty pointless...

I have used it for a bit and fade in and out using. It seems along with irc to be the one thing that fades when time crammed. Although, I often just have it on and get snippets of what people are doing - to me the point of it. Sometimes, long chats aren't what you want on IM - it reminds me of the craze to put custom IM messages (seems to have faded more lately).

Twitter is the interwebnet gone nuts. Posting updates about where you are, what you're doing and what you're eating ever minute of the day is information overload of the worst kind (if there is, in fact, a good kind).

Twitter, like many a web 2.0 gizmo, is a solution in search of a problem. It brings no value, no purpose, no point, it's SMS on steroids.

I'm using it as a kind of "disposable microblogging" add-on to my main blog: all I do is display my Twitter RSS feed on the main blog page. I don't use it a lot, since I don't see the need to provide updates on everything I'm doing, but it adds a little "colour", such as updates on the trip to Denver I'm just back from. But I don't Twitter on an everyday basis. (http://twitter.com/stereoroid)

When I saw that Robert Scoble had joined Twitter, I added him in as a "friend", as did a lot of other people - then he returned the favours, which took a lot of work (he said). Take a look at http://twitter.com/Scobleizer : that's just insane, and I sure hope he's not using the SMS notify option.

It makes sense as a logical progression in the whole Web 2.0 ethos, but I've never been totally on board with that anyway. I'm a naturally private person, and most of this "always connect" stuff makes me feel rather old, like a 50's parent who doesn't get that newfangled "rock and roll" music. 8)

I'm still trying to figure Twitter out. For now, it's kinda like passing notes in class...only the class is all over the world. I can see how Twitter would be heavily used in a conference setting though; it certainly blew up during SXSW, and I'm finding the relative value of seeing how other concurrent sessions are going from people without even being there.

I just do it for kicks. I'm not addicted like some people who twitter every 5 seconds :D

I agree with Kathy Sierra on the use of twitter. It scares me.

This is certainly an interesting question, Tyme, and one that I've seen popping up everywhere lately. Prompted by this note, I sat down and did a quick writeup about my feelings on Twitter. I also linked to a couple of good articles from fellow bloggers.

i use it when i'm too friggin lazy to write out an entire entry...

Besides, there are always people like me out there who always skip posts that go longer than a 2 scrolls...

think 'miniblog', minus the headaches. Though I am curious as to what further paid services are gonna come round.

I think twitter is ridiculously moronic.... as mentioned earlier it's "a solution in search of a problem".

People who know me have my cell phone number and my email address. If they see me on IM I'm most likely online and they can chat with me... or they can call my cell phone.

I don't see the point in taking the time to go post that I'm sitting in my office chair eating Chex mix and drinking coffee... WHO CARES.

I opened a Twitter account a couple of months ago, then closed it after a few days. It's fun for the first few hours, maybe even days, if you're really social, but then it just gets boring and old. After a few more of my friends signed up two weeks ago, I once again created an account, and again, closed it a few days later.

I don't know what everyone find so fascinating in Twitter. It's cute at some level, I guess.

Personally, I think it is too intrusive and we have to draw the line somewhere for Web 2.0. How much of your life do you want to put online? Won't there come a time when so much of your life is online that there won't be anything unique to share? Every song I listen to is on Last.fm, my photographs on Flickr, my videos on YouTube, my thoughts on my weblog, news I read on Newsvine, interesting links I find on Digg, my bookmarks on del.icio.us, and my social life on Facebook. Enough already! Twitter was the last straw on the camel's back for me.

If you think it in a different way than I am thinking it as a cool concept.

It can be a kinda personal diary.. You can write your day-today happenings.. Twist is that.. It's now readable by all the visitors of Twitter.

Another benefit is that you don't have to tell your friends every time what you are doing...

I will use this site for sure.. Only problem now is that they are charging a international SMS fee for sending updates via mobile. They haven't enabled the IM service too!

Regards

Well..Anybody tried to post on Twitter via mobile browser?
Not working for me!!

Only problem now is that they are charging a international SMS fee for sending updates via mobile.

Twitter don't charge for a thing.

Good concept yet waste of time.

Hi Rich,

May be I typed wrong??

I mean to say.. There is a internatioal SMS fee will charged when you send updates via mobile to Twitter

Check the image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommakers/431325858/

Seems really pointless and a waste of time. I checked it out for a day and got bored, I have much better things to do than tell the interweb what I'm doing at this very second.

OMG! I'm typing right now!

I must be the only person on here who isn't hip enough to understand Twitter.

Everything useful... such as the day to day diary idea that was mentioned above... could be accomplished as easily with a blog that consists entirely of asides style entries.

Being notified by SMS seems useful, but when you see what people post on there... it's not like "We're going to the mall" which makes you go "ZOMG JONS GOING TO THE MALL, LETS GO TOO"... it's "I'm eating turkey and I just farted" which is the last thing I want my cell phone blowing up with.

I like the fact that you can just add a one-liner or so, to give an update, throughout the day, without having to actually add the content to your blog.

It is convenient for me to read bits and pieces of my son's day, as I literally live on the other side of the world, from him (5,500 miles away), without having to read entire blog entries/updates.

I wrote an opinionated review on my blog about Twitter. Looking at the flow of postings on Twitter.com, I am wondering what it is that makes this site so popular? Some users are finding it totally addictive and it can be, but will it be another fad that dies down or will it remain successful?

It looks to me as if there is more than one way to use Twitter. The way I use it is the occasional "microblog" update from my cellphone, which gets displayed on my website via RSS. I have two (2) Friends in Twitter.

When I read some of the rants against Twitter, I don't recognize myself at all. So, can we please cut out the "Twitter is retarded" talk, and descriptions of Twitter users as attention-deficient networking junkies?

It wasn't until recently that I figured out what I disliked about Twitter. It's not Twitter - it's some of the people showing their immaturity. Their sense of irresponsibility. Their lack of common sense. Their inability to really "lead".

Using Twitter you're "leading" an audience (just like a blogger). The quickness of the Twitter entries stops people from actually thinking about what they are writing, not realizing that people might not be able to follow what they are writing and from that standpoint, that makes Twitter a dangerous tool in the wrong hands. Unfortunately, most people won't realize that until it is too late (blogs had the same problem - remember everyone getting fired?).

I somehow tried Twitter but didnt see much sense using it. Do we need another tool after email, IM, RSS, Skype et all. I personally believe using Twitter people spend so much time updating their status that hardly any work is done.

It wasn't until recently that I figured out what I disliked about Twitter. It's not Twitter - it's some of the people showing their immaturity. Their sense of irresponsibility. Their lack of common sense. Their inability to really "lead".

That's essentially why I left MySpace. On it's own, MySpace has potential to be a not-bad service. I won't say good, because honestly, it's still a piece of shit with all of the adverts and commercial influences it has. However, I got fed up with my 'friends' acting like complete morons, showing complete emotional instability if I didn't leave them a comment or tell them their hair was pretty, eventually I just had to drop it.

Luckily, I've got my.9er's as friends on Twitter.

I tried it. Then stopped. Then started again and found it still to be useless. And even wrote a quick post about it.
But now, day by day I see more and more uses for it. From home alerts to weather information, people are getting creative.

Even so, it's still a bit forced in the sense that nearly almost all of these new uses that people are getting for twitter, could be performed with other services like sms or email.

Twitter is like being at a party trying to participate and be seen but you only end up standing in the corner talking to yourself.

I'm playing with it. Not convinced yet. But if I look at my 'friends' who are using it you can see a couple of trends. A bunch of them played with it once or twice and stopped doing it. It's because they're geeks and they had to try it, but it's just not right for them...

But there's others who have become total addicts, every single thing, every hour of the day (and strangely it's quite compelling).

I quite like it. For me it's a hybrid between my blog and IM. But I'm really starting to struggle to keep up with all of the different ways that everyone is communicating with each other. It was bad enough with 4 different IM platforms!

I suppose RSS could come to the rescue and glue everything together, but it feels like we're a while away from things making sense again (if they ever did).

I wish the Twitter had channels. I know that Twitter is supposed to be about random content, but I'd like that randomness to be just a little more organized. I don't have a lot of tech friends, so its hard to just follow a bunch of strangers - but if all the strangers were grouped into topics, such as web2.0, web design, sports, local events...etc.

My $.02

Mike

I agree with jmathias.