Twitter? Why?
I signed up for Twitter.
I told it what I was doing for a day.
My last entry was, “Deciding that this is a waste of time.”
I imagine that for certain environments, under certain conditions, it may provide a cute way to keep people informed as to what you (or a group of people) are doing, but there are better ways, arent there? Like email? Good old email?
I won’t be using Twitter any longer. Yeah, I can stalk people who enjoy being stalked, but I would rather consume information in a way that is thoughtful. I dont really have the time to read offhanded remarks, thumbed commentary from a BlackBerry about Starbucks.
Sure, there might be value in offhanded remarks, but I dont need to get them realtime. I really don’t.
If you use Twitter and can tell me how you leverage it for productivity, Id be curious to know. At first I thought, “hey, this is a neat way to track my time and log my thoughts every day so I can go back later and make sense of it all,” and then I realized that I could do that in email or my IM client, too. I dont need it to be public.
Ah well. Let me know your thoughts.
Best,
MIT Technical, Boston
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Josh
How about as a mobile timesheet tool?
Or an extension to an out of occie message. “Hi I am out of the office right now. If you need to speak with me urgently check here to see what I am doing”
Like most technology it’s an opportunity for people to leverage or waste.
By the way I haven’t signed up for the tool myself and have never even visited their site.
Regards
Craig
October 4th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I thought of that, but if I am typing into something, aren’t I already getting that functionality?
And in regard to the OOTO response… I cant imagine. Why not just giving your cell phone number. If you are obnoxious enough to not answer your phone but take the time to post to Twitter… yikes.
Thanks for the response
J
October 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I discovered the “track” feature of Twitter. Marginally interesting, but shows promise. I will play with it a little bit over the course of the week and see if it is something that I want to dedicate time to or helps me out in any way.
Track “joshmilane” - you’ll be endlessly disappointed
Josh