Twitter Discipine
An adult’s guide to using Twitter sheds some like on this extremely focused social networking tool offers. It offers a useful filter in its logic – not caring about how many people who follow you, and being real choosey about those that you follow.
Twitter is not a social social network. It is an idea exchange. If you only see the ideas of those who are selling you methods to spam the list, then that is all you see as they do so every few minutes. Of course it is also a way to meet people, but it may not be the best application for that.
The best tweeter is someone who commits items of value, real tastey chestnuts of experience, knowledge or comment that create the Zeitgeist. It is an effort to cut short the explorable living expanding encyclopedia format and instead become a stream of conscience medium, or shared intellectual experience indecernably woven with moments of guilt, humble admissions, mediocraty and irrelevance. It is a robot of potential interactions, if you like.
It works best as an interactive mobile application, but do we need constant updates – “nearly there”‘s littering our attention? Of course not, not really. Less is more. Twitters think quantity first to their expense.
If Twitter is not achieving your personal corporate goals, maybe you need to cull your list and adopt a living breathing person to excite interest instead of religiously pumping out bland sales pitch ad infinitum?
Twitter has the capacity to be larger than Facebook. It is far more abstract, but still tends to meander into noise, while Facebook excels at the soap opera of personal trivia. Do we even remember MySpace. Yes if you are a musician, but for all its free music – maybe not if you are a fan wanting to load up their mobile phone with the latest tracks. Last.fm does it better.
Design obsession does not produce an audience. That elusive magic ingredient can be achieved by anyone.