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 Originally Posted by west3man
I've been surprised by the success of or interest in Twitter, but when I think about the number of forums I've seen with topics like, "What are you eating* RIGHT NOW," the idea seems like a slam dunk.
Personally, I don't care what folks are eating. What they're listening to or watching isn't an active interest, either.
Neither do I, and I'm a (initially reluctant) Twitter user. It all depends on who you follow. I've got a few tech sites that just tweet the headlines of their articles, a few famous people (David Lynch, Trent Reznor, Adam from Mythbusters, etc.), some sports players, some real-life friends, and a bunch of random people from tech sites (Dieter, Joshua Topolsky from Engadget, the above Lynn Fox from Palm, etc.)
But here's the thing. I don't care at all about their daily lives whatsoever. If someone tweets mundane details of their life, I remove them (well, except for the football players, I like reading how the OTAs are going.) The ones I keep in my list are there because they say interesting things.
And I personally don't send out many tweets myself, but generally just respond to other people's and that sort of thing.
The bad reputation Twitter has comes from two things- Ashton Kutcher, and people who tweet every little mundane detail of their day.... but if more people used it the 'right' way, then I think a lot of people would be surprised at how interesting and/or useful it can be.
(And for those who say limiting to 140 characters is a huge issue, I actually really like it myself, both in reading other posts, and writing them myself. For some reason I like when I'm posting something that's over the limit, and then I have to figure out a way to make it fit without resorting to using txt-speak. It's like a little mini-puzzle to me. )
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