I don't see them touting 9/11 Truth, do you?
"Blog Filter: Simply put, twitter may be worth the fuss" by Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent | April 13, 2009
Justifying Twitter hoopla. Calling Twitter "a deceptively simple idea with remarkably powerful applications," writer and consultant Paul Gillin attempted to explain the online messaging service to those who still don't get what all the fuss is about.
The 140-character limit is liberating.
Yeah, like CONCISION on TV is "liberating."
Writing blog entries is a time-consuming task. . . .
Yeah, TELL ME ABOUT IT!
Exposing the TRUTH generally IS TIME-CONSUMING!!!!!
Twitter's 140-character limit lends itself well to quick thoughts that I believe are worth sharing with others but that don't justify a full-blown blog entry.
Translation: Nothing important can be conveyed!
Last thing the MSM newspaper would want you to do is LOOK at a BLOG!!!!
When you just can't wait for information, Twitter can't be beat for getting your question to a large group. It's impractical to do this with e-mail: People's inboxes are already cluttered with spam and you have no way of getting your message to people you don't know.
I'm now convinced I'm right. Something is wrong with Twitter if the MSM loves it.
Also, through "retweeting" a message can reach a large number of people who aren't on your follower list. This brings new perspectives to the conversation and gives you the opportunity to discover people you wouldn't have otherwise met.
And that you probably will wish you hadn't. Take it from me, I know!!!!!
If you want to find out what people are saying about you right now, services like Twitscoop and Monitter enable you to instantly track mentions of your company, product, industry, or whatever and to save them as RSS feeds for later browsing. You can do the same with Twitter Search. Google Alerts currently doesn't index Twitter feeds, but Filtrbox does.
I really couldn't give a shit what they are saying about me!!!!
This is NOT ABOUT ME it is about WHAT I WRITE ABOUT!!!!!
And I would dismiss the article as an aberration except (same page):
"Adult 'science fair' mixes innovation, savvy networking" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | April 13, 2009
WALTHAM - .... Twitter, the popular social-networking platform, blogs, and e-mails brought most of them here - to the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham - for the first Mass Innovation Nights, a new monthly networking and product-sharing event that organizer Bobbie Carlton describes as a science fair for adults.
"I'm powering this all through Twitter and blogs and Facebook and LinkedIn," Carlton said. "I sent out some tweets [Twitter posts] that basically said, 'I am looking for some cool companies that want to launch their products at an event. It's totally free. Let's have a party.' "
The approach worked. "I tweet about what IBM is doing all the time," said Karen Lilla, a spokeswoman for IBM Software Group, who said she learned of Mass Innovation Nights through Twitter....
Oh, so you know about this, right?: IBM Moves 5,000 U.S. Jobs to India
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Reason #368 to Not Trust Twitter
And I'm not the only one not liking Twitter, folks:
"Twitter. As I understand it this is some kind of a text messaging forum for people with bubblegum where their brains used to be."
That's been my experience, yeah!
Update (need I even comment?):
"So little space, so much ado; The Twitter debate (in short): network or net waste" by D.C. Denison, Globe Staff | April 20, 2009
.... The booming Twitter "micro-blogging" service...
Millions of people have joined Twitter. The best known are such celebrities as Britney Spears....
Twitter has its critics, who characterize the service as a trivial waste of time....
Count me as one.
Tom Davenport, who holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, on his blog on the Harvard Business Publishing website, wrote:
"Let's face it - there's a certain 'Decline of the West' aspect to the Twitter idea that you can say anything meaningful in 140 characters," he explained....
Yet there has been something of a rush to Twitter among those whose reputation depends on being the first to embrace the newest trends in communications: marketing and public relations professionals. "I still hear a lot of skepticism about Twitter, but not from marketers," said Josh Bernoff, an analyst with Forrester Research in Cambridge and coauthor of a book on social media, "Groundswell."
Oh, so NOW WE KNOW WHOM TWITTER is FOR and why the MSM is promoting it!!!!
Tom Simons, chief executive and creative officer at Boston-based marketing communications firm Partners+Simons, is not completely sold on Twitter:
"I've done a lot of poking around within Twitter, and we have a company Twitter feed, but it is clear to me that in many respects Twitter is a very powerful magnet for valuable time that can be better spent elsewhere."
YUP!!!!!
