Comments on: Twitter: here come the masses

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:38:20 +0000

Hi Marianne. Heh, no, I can’t stand big brother. The trick is to follow people with interesting things to say. And me :)

By: Marianne McDougall

Marianne McDougall — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:05:26 +0000

Hi Gary,

The team, as always heard you on Fred McCauley
singing the praises of twitter.

Sorry I just don’t get it – are you a big brother fan?

Marianne

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:10:22 +0000

Maybe... this is something that's apparently vexing the "social media butterflies": Broadstuff reports.

By: Armin

Armin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:44:28 +0000

I thought the cool crowd is now moving to identi.ca?

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:59:07 +0000

Judging by the traffic numbers, a lot of people are rather far up themselves. Including me! :)

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:17:05 +0000

I think I mentioned that I had to stop subscribing to one of the popular SEO mailing lists because their whole thing now is “you must use Twitter! You must use Twitter!” How far up yourself do you have to be to think that everyone in the world is glued to a screen all day and is interested in reading your inner monologue.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:37 +0000

That link’s brilliant.

It’s basically facebook without the faff. You follow people you’re interested in, and that shows you whatever they post. Some people use it for a blow by blow account of their day, others to post stuff they found online, and, er, that’s about it really.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:31:27 +0000

I can’t get my head round twitter at all.

By: Tony Kiernan

Tony Kiernan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:21:09 +0000

Makes me glad I never really got around to sussing out wht it does. Then again, nevermind facebook, mySpace is still therebedragons for me.

As an aside. While looking into ‘social commerce’ for a (pretty friggin’ major) client, I came across this site:
How to use Twitter for marketing and PR