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Love it or hate it, Twitter has certainly taken the web by storm. In just a few short years, the social networking/micro-blogging website has grown to be one 50 most popular website in the world.
As much as I am fascinated with Twitter (though I'm a bad Twitterer, Neatorama's Official Twitter is not as frequently updated as the blog), I'm more interested about what other people say about Twitter.
Here's a quickie 10 most interesting Twitter Quotes (some are from people who, ironically, don't tweet):
"oh this is going to be addictive" - Dom Sagolla, Twitter co-creator
“The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful” - Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard law professor and Internet expert (Source)
“Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.” - Robert Scoble, blogger (Source)
“Using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite ‘The Iliad.’" - Bruce Sterling, science fiction writer and journalist (Source)
"Whoever said that things have to be useful?"
- Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder and
CEO
"For the uninitiated, here's how Twitter works - I have no f***ing idea. I have no idea how it works - or why it is." Jon Stewart, comedian and host of The Daily Show
"Facebook is to 2007 as Twitter is to 2009. It's the most open communication platform out there" - Roger Kondrat, social media consultant (Source)
"The people drawn to Twitter are people on the cutting edge, the real nerds who are resentful of the fact that the general population have found and taken over Facebook" - Steve Dotto, host of Dotto Tech (Source)
"HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY" - Oprah, yes that Oprah, on Twitter
"Ummm . . . I don’t think it’s as big of a dilemma as people seem to think. We haven’t focused on it yet and I can’t say for sure how it’s going to work." - Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder and CEO, on how Twitter will make money
I've been on a Hyves, but after a while stopped, because at some point I realised that it took me more time to keep that updated for my friends than just visiting them face to face.
Since I stopped using Hyves and since I lessened my use of mail, I see people more often and I find that my quality-time hase gone way up.
So now from time to time I comment on some blogs, I barely watch tv and I only browse the net for 1 hour a day max. And I'm happy.
And yes, I see the irony of me posting this thought.
Today I learned several things appropriate to my interests: that IE6 support is dropping (today from youtube), how to create wordpress widgets, how to create an iPhone style password field, 10 tools to create web design wireframes, that there is a nokia boycott and how that works, there is a preview of Max for Ableton Live, that the Venus probe suggests it once had oceans and plate tectonics, etc.
none of that is reminiscent to me of babies crying or of 'twits' wittering. All of that information is either useful for my work, educational for other reasons, or simply entertaining.
Don't believe the nega-hype. Twitter is essentially a micro-blogging tool, it is not a method for random teens to tell you about breakfast. The fact you have overlooked : You subscribe to INTERESTING channels.
simple eh?
If people want to use it, whatever. It's just not for me.
But Twitter strikes me as obsessive microblogging. I tried it for a while, but got bored, so I started tweeting in haiku, but frankly, no one cares that I nicked my chin shaving this morning.
I think The Onion pretty well nailed it with this: http://www.theonion.com/content/statshot/what_are_we_twittering
Huh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twat
You win for most non sequitur comment.