Comments on: How/Why I use Twitter http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: brodie http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9051 brodie Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:51:48 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9051 we use pownce in office for the exact reasons listed above. One fatal flaw. It does not have any sort of notifier in the desktop app (flashing blinking etc.) we use pownce in office for the exact reasons listed above. One fatal flaw. It does not have any sort of notifier in the desktop app (flashing blinking etc.)

]]> By: Susheela http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9032 Susheela Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:31:27 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9032 I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Pownce (http://www.pownce.com) -- It's currently in beta, so if you want an invite, let me know. But I switched from Twitter to Pownce for the same reasons you've talked about in this post. 1) You can create 'groups' of friends, so I send event invitey messages to just friends I want to know where I am, but at the same time I get all the cool messages/links for a broader range of people, a lot of whom I don't know personally, but post awesome stuff. 2) It's a little more clear what you can use Pownce for... they have four different 'types' of posts - Messages (kinda just like a tweet), links, files (this may be one of the main reasons I switched... they've done this beautifully), events. Anyway, point is it's easier for my friends to wrap their heads around it when I invite them ;) 3) I like their desktop app better, hehe. Anyway, sorry, I don't mean to try and sell Pownce to you, and I don't work for them... I just love it so much :P I’m surprised that no one has mentioned Pownce (http://www.pownce.com) — It’s currently in beta, so if you want an invite, let me know.

But I switched from Twitter to Pownce for the same reasons you’ve talked about in this post.

1) You can create ‘groups’ of friends, so I send event invitey messages to just friends I want to know where I am, but at the same time I get all the cool messages/links for a broader range of people, a lot of whom I don’t know personally, but post awesome stuff.

2) It’s a little more clear what you can use Pownce for… they have four different ‘types’ of posts - Messages (kinda just like a tweet), links, files (this may be one of the main reasons I switched… they’ve done this beautifully), events. Anyway, point is it’s easier for my friends to wrap their heads around it when I invite them ;)

3) I like their desktop app better, hehe.

Anyway, sorry, I don’t mean to try and sell Pownce to you, and I don’t work for them… I just love it so much :P

]]> By: Brodie http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9023 Brodie Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:09:53 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9023 i use twitter to keep up with people i find interesting. even if i dont know them personally, i see it as trend following or cool hunting in a web 2.0 sense. it has given me the heads up on a lot of new ideas in web usage and development. its a fun service, not necessarily a terribly useful one. but fun. i use twitter to keep up with people i find interesting. even if i dont know them personally, i see it as trend following or cool hunting in a web 2.0 sense. it has given me the heads up on a lot of new ideas in web usage and development. its a fun service, not necessarily a terribly useful one. but fun.

]]> By: Janece http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9019 Janece Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:26:49 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9019 Interesting. I'm *still* figuring out how I want to use twitter, if at all. Of the people that I follow, I've seen a broad difference in how people use it. Some use it for passing on cool links... others for (as geegee suggested) post about their breakfast or that their elbow itches. I did love it during the California fires. I followed KPBS in SD and it was perfect for keeping up to date on what was happening for all my friends and family down there. I've enjoyed having twitter to keep up with a few close friends, who I'm not able to be around on a day-to-day basis. It's nice to be kept in the loop and flow of their day. For myself, I just don't know how I want to use it. As a place to post quick links? Updates on the trivia in my day? To use it socially like you are trying to do Ariel, would require more of my friends to use it and most of them aren't. For now, I'm hanging in there. It holds my attention just enough that I keep on. Interesting.

I’m *still* figuring out how I want to use twitter, if at all. Of the people that I follow, I’ve seen a broad difference in how people use it. Some use it for passing on cool links… others for (as geegee suggested) post about their breakfast or that their elbow itches. I did love it during the California fires. I followed KPBS in SD and it was perfect for keeping up to date on what was happening for all my friends and family down there. I’ve enjoyed having twitter to keep up with a few close friends, who I’m not able to be around on a day-to-day basis. It’s nice to be kept in the loop and flow of their day.

For myself, I just don’t know how I want to use it. As a place to post quick links? Updates on the trivia in my day? To use it socially like you are trying to do Ariel, would require more of my friends to use it and most of them aren’t.

For now, I’m hanging in there. It holds my attention just enough that I keep on.

]]> By: geegee http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9010 geegee Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:50:05 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter#comment-9010 I don't use twitter because honestly, I can't imagine anything more annoying. Maybe I just don't get it (and I do think keeping it restricted to a more intimate group of friends that you actually want to exchange info with would make it more palatable to me) -- but when I read various bloggers' twitter feeds on their sites, I always think, "Who cares?" All of the "tweets" seem to be along the lines of what someone had for breakfast, and, as a we already know, that is just not interesting. Whenever I want to communicate with a bunch of my friends all at once via text, I just, well, do that. I select their names in my address book on my phone and Voila! off goes the text. So anyway, for what it's worth, those are my thoughts. Maybe I'm not just getting it, but I do find it interesting that none of my friends use twitter, and we were all website designer/developers/etc. at the very beginning of the web. I don't know if that means anything other than we're just old and stuck in our ways or what. :) I don’t use twitter because honestly, I can’t imagine anything more annoying. Maybe I just don’t get it (and I do think keeping it restricted to a more intimate group of friends that you actually want to exchange info with would make it more palatable to me) — but when I read various bloggers’ twitter feeds on their sites, I always think, “Who cares?” All of the “tweets” seem to be along the lines of what someone had for breakfast, and, as a we already know, that is just not interesting. Whenever I want to communicate with a bunch of my friends all at once via text, I just, well, do that. I select their names in my address book on my phone and Voila! off goes the text.

So anyway, for what it’s worth, those are my thoughts. Maybe I’m not just getting it, but I do find it interesting that none of my friends use twitter, and we were all website designer/developers/etc. at the very beginning of the web. I don’t know if that means anything other than we’re just old and stuck in our ways or what. :)

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