Chris Leckness is a Geek

Incoherent ramblings from a redneck tech geek

Twitter Smitter

What the hell is all this fuss about Twitter. I have been reading Scoble and many other blog about twitter for the last few months. I looked into it a few months ago, but I just didn’t see the purpose. I didn’t see why I should take 5-20 timeouts in my day to let the world know what I am doing. If someone cares, they can IM me or call me. I looked at the description and just didn’t see the use.

“A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!”

While the idea is pretty cool, it’s just not for me. The other day, James Kedrick put JKOntheRun on Twitter and I almost made a little post here on my blog wondering what the big deal is to everyone. (update: Dave Zatz’s comment to Jame’s post sums it up for me)Well, the notion passed and I moved on.

Today, I get to reading my feeds and Scoble proved a point to me. His post I had a good blog post planned but then… related to a new tool someone put together where these twitters info are put up on a map overlay where they live. I got from this post that he wasted much time watching this and productivity suffered. :)

Anyhow, there is no doubt that this is a quite popular utility based on a Google blog search for Twitter. 15 Posts in the last hour.

Anyone want to explain how this can personally help me or my websites? What is the use really?

Categories: Blogging - Rants
18 March 2007 at 22:09 - Comments
  • Chris
    As you posted this, I was reading more and more about this to see what the hub bub is all about. Apparenty James chose to jump on it because there is some new tool that offers a way to integrate your RSS Feed content into your twitter account. This could be good for promotion of your content. Not a bad idea, but I am still not buying into it.

    Like I said, it's a really cool concept, just not my cup of tea. I have my phone on me 24/7, people can call or email me if they need to know what I am doing.
  • Melvyn
    Don't get excited - this isn't a comment that's going to enlighten you about the wonders of twitter. I just wanted to post to say "thank God someone said it!".
    It's been like the emperor's new clothes. I too took a look a while ago and quickly moved on having decided there was nothing of value for me in their offering. Now it seems I can't read a blog without people saying "you MUST try this". Trouble is, they don't offer any substantive reason why.
    Thanks Chris for reminding us that not every bandwaggon requires a leap.
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