Comments on: What’s The Big Deal About Twitter, and Scary News About Akismet

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:55:07 +0000

Hi Naomi

I love Twitter too. I follow about 100 people – it’s my max, if I go over that my brain freezes. Some people do tweet way too much and I have to unfollow for a while even if they’re (in theory) ‘interesting’.

People I’m most likely to follow are those who are conersational, who talk to me and others in a friendly, low key way.

My favourite time of day is what I call European time (though of course it picks up v. early birds in the states and night owls in Australia) – a slower pace, friendly desultory chat over coffee.

Anyway, it’s definitely worth an experiment – and worth giving it a few weeks to get used to it.

Joanna

By: Vered

Vered — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:00:17 +0000

I don’t know about adding Twitter to the mix. Seems like I have enough on my plate already. I check so many social networks and blogs and websites daily, the day goes by really fast.

Having said that, I used to say the same thing about facebook before I joined, so never say never.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:35:59 +0000

@ Margot — PS. Thanks for coming! It’s nice to have you!

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:35:44 +0000

@ Margot — Having spent the evening drinking Shiraz, playing Rock Band, and Tweeting, I think I have the new secret. Keep it irrelevant. Nobody’s really blogging about anything, they’re just party chatting. But it’s not nearly as annoying as it sounds. Come! It’s fun!

By: Margot

Margot — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:37:47 +0000

Naomi~

Thanks so much for the comment on my blog! It took me a few moments to figure out what ZH stood for, and how you’d found me. :D In response to the post: I agree with Selene above, it seems like everyone is talking about Twitter these days. I tried it for a few days a few months ago, and didn’t ‘get’ it. If I had something to say, why not just post it on the blog? Maybe I’ll have to reexamine the whole thing. I like the business party analogy. Having worked in theatre for five years, but never applied for a position, I fully understand how wonderful, and lucrative, networking can be.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:51:49 +0000

@ Koka — Thanks for the follow! What’s the url for the post? You can whore it out in the comments.

By: Koka

Koka — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:30:03 +0000

Twitter is like crack. I had never thought of it that way but it’s true. Thanks for putting your Twitter ID in the post, I guess it makes it easy since you are branding yourself. I have started following you too. I recently wrote a post about how to use Twitter on my site if you are interested.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:06:06 +0000

@ RLD — Welcome to IttyBiz! It’s nice to have you. @MenWithPens is the top pimp on my list.

@ Sonia — Speaking of following, it’s funny how some people really take the “what are you doing” thing seriously. I feel like I’m actually following them. Like, following them around their house. And Scoble is kind of like Skellie or Leo. Superhuman and not worth comparing yourself to. I tell myself daily: “You can’t do it so don’t try. You can’t do it so don’t try.” It’s a good mantra.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:47:42 +0000

I just make twitter my default browser page, and so I will send a little tweet and look at the page of tweets when I need to open a new window. Works for me.

If I actually tried to *follow* Twitter, I would lose my mind. And I only follow something like 35 people.

Scoble has some interesting brain disease that lets him do this stuff. :)

By: RLD: Taekwondo Happiness

RLD: Taekwondo Happiness — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:41 +0000

How cool is this: I found this post b/c James posted it in Twitter! Talk about good blog marketing :)