To Twitter or not to Twitter

By Michael Fraase

Sunday, 24 February 2008 11:56AM CDT

Section: Internet

TwitterI’ve never quite been able to grok Twitter. I tried it when it was new and shiny and just didn’t get it. But it kept coming up so I kept coming back. Still didn’t get it—even over an extended period of time.

Howard Rheingold has published a list of why he’s hooked on Twitter. Things like openness, immediacy, variety, reciprocity, and a channel to multiple publics sounds very appealing but that’s just not my Twitter experience. I get redundancy and the mundane and nothing very important or really interesting. That’s pretty much what I give, too. Sure, Rheingold twitters when he’s got a new video entry available, but that’s available via RSS which is much less intrusive. And that bit of information has very little immediate value to me.

Then, here comes David Weinberger with his Twitter love list: entertaining, revelatory, intimate.

I’m going to give Twitterific another go—maybe it’s that I’m following the wrong people; suggestions welcome.

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