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Oct 1, 2008 | 1:35 pm

#16

nmenaker

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don't use, probably never will.

Oct 1, 2008 | 1:54 pm

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ScottC

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Originally Posted by winkydink

No. Never been to the site. Never looked at it. To me, it sounds like a giant waste of time.

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I think the main draw for a lot of people is that it has the "hey look how cool I am" factor of blogging, without the effort

Oct 1, 2008 | 3:35 pm

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I signed up for kicks and grins. The number four ranked topic currently is “Tina Fey”, so I’m wondering just how useful it really is, besides being a fun time waster for some people.

Oct 2, 2008 | 10:13 am

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JClishe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zoombee

I wish I could recall who blogged over a few weeks about their trying out twitter. Went something like:

* Everyone seems to be using twitter, guess I better give it a go
* Trying it, what's the fuss all about?
* God twitter is useless, and potentially quite annoying
* Oh, maybe it does have it's uses
* What did I ever do without twitter?

This mimics my experience almost exactly. I 'forcefed' it to myself for a couple of weeks, almost agonizingly, and then discovered that it could actually be somewhat useful.

Couple of specific examples:

- a few weeks ago some major storms came through Cincinnati. 1.5 million people lost power and there was major damage everywhere. With power and Internet being down for several days, communication was very difficult. I follow several Twitter-ers within the Cincinnati area that provided updates to power restoration and storm cleanup news via their smartphones, which I read on my phone. This was very helpful

- I get CNN breaking news alerts via Twitter. To me this is a less obtrusive way of receiving breaking news than via email or rss feed (email and rss feeds both have a way of piling up)

- I follow a few CEO's that use Twitter and I find it rather interesting to see how they spend their time, and there have been a few instances where I've actually improved some of my own habits / workflows based on ideas from following these CEO's Twitter feeds

- Friends and family spread throughout the country. Hey, it's interesting knowing what people I care about are up to. The mundane things that they Twitter are typically items that wouldn't come up in everyday conversation. By Twittering we get a window into each others lives that sparks real-world conversation later. "Hey, I saw on Twitter that you went golfing the other day. Where'd you go? How'd you do?"

- Just this morning one of my friends Twittered about SpeedFiler for Outlook. I gave it a try and absolutely love it. Never would have known about it otherwise.

- Me and my co-workers travel a lot and use Twitter to announce location updates. "At MSP for 3 hour layover, anyone else here?" can be a useful tweet

YMMV