Twitter: Just a self-promoting tool or something to tell your friends what you are doing? You be the judge!
So I’ve been around the “twitter” world for awhile now, and have added some friends to it. I’ve started to notice that it’s not as much of a “What are you doing?” tool as I once thought. If you check out twitter’s home page (when you are not logged in) you’ll see the excerpt below:
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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!”
Now the weird thing is, here’s some recent twits from my feed. You’ll see that most people are self-promoting their blog post. You should also see that several of these people post several posts a day, so you’ll end up with a lot of twits from that person telling us they’ve posted something on their blog.
What You And Your Friends Are Doing
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ajmorris Twitter poll how many ppl use twitter to tell ppl what you are doing instead of promoting your blog? Direct me and ill compile results 44 minutes ago from txt   |
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chrispirillo What is a Power User? http://urltea.com/wy6?What_… about 1 hour ago from web |
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chrispirillo What are Easter Eggs? http://urltea.com/wxm?Easter about 2 hours ago from web |
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ijustine I just got something really awesome. about 2 hours ago from txt |
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chrispirillo Less than 100 Seats Left http://urltea.com/wxe?Seats about 2 hours ago from web |
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chrispirillo Greeting Card Spam http://urltea.com/wxd?Greeting about 2 hours ago from web |
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techchickblogr New blog post: Men can’t multitask?? http://tinyurl.com/2zhknq about 2 hours ago from web |
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ijustine Waiting for my Mac to be fixed! about 3 hours ago from txt |
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techchickblogr New blog post: Thursday Thunderkits! http://tinyurl.com/274hhr about 5 hours ago from web |
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techchickblogr New blog post: links for 2007-07-05 http://tinyurl.com/289gy6 about 7 hours ago from web |
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chrispirillo I Want to Believe http://urltea.com/wtw?I_Wan… about 11 hours ago from web |
I don’t mind that people do this, however, if we are your friends, we probably subscribe to your blog so we’ll see in our RSS readers. Why post on twitter? I’m starting to see why some people have gotten off twitter and went to jaiku, however, it’s already happening there as well. I think there’s a few things that could happen, however, I’d like to hear from all of you! So add your opinions as comments to this post, and I’ll give either an update or new post about what I think should happen.
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