What is the buzz about twitter? 2 May 2008
Posted by Catriona Pollard in Tech tips.Tags: twitter
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I have heard about twitter for a while now and even read some tweets. Personally I can’t see the point, but it seems that it is becoming more and more popular.
HitWise recent research shows that visits have more than doubled in the last three months, and traffic rocketed up 60 percent in the past month, the site ranked only 439 among social networks and forums last week and 4,309 among all categories of Web sites.
It seems it is addictive. Users frequently visit and return to the site from computers or mobile phones to leave brief but typically fun 140-character messages on their Twitter pages for their followers and friends to read and respond to.
Journalists are taking it up – SMH’s Enterprise’s Valerie Khoo is now a Twittee devotee.
People are incorporating the service into their daily, 9-to-5 routines. For example, a blogger or journalist might post what show he or she is attending and then return to post Internet sticky notes about a keynote or some other happening. Bloggers and journalists can then follow the Twittee to inform how they cover or, in the case of public relations people, pitch a story.
Valerie said in SMH’s Enterprise blog:
As a small business entrepreneur …….if you combine your marketing messages with a lot of other useful – or interesting or quirky – messages, you might get a good response from Twitter. You can also send your “tweets” directly to your subscribers’ mobile phones as a text message (if they allow this function).
While you might not be able to fathom why people would go to Twitter to see what you are doing, you can also create a feed so that your “tweets” automatically show up on your webpage or blog which ensures that your webpage has dynamic content that changes all the time. Instead of being static, people will see something different every time they browse to your page – and that will keep some people coming back to it.
Maybe I will become a Twitee as well…..
Hi Catriona! My name is Matt Grant and I am a PR major at Towson University. I took some time out to read your blog and I particularly like this post. I think you are an amazing blogger and writer.
Just some things I like about your blog:
I love the short sentences, you keep readers reading because of the short sentences. Your blog did not bore me in the slightest.
I like how you are really informal with your audience. I think it is really important in a blog to be as informal as possible…like a conversation almost. It keeps me reading and entertained.
Finally I like the content of your blog.
I am studying right now under two professors who LOVE blogging and I have learned all about it’s importance and how to do it. In the future of journalism and PR, we should all know how to do it right and I think you are very good at it.
I checked out Twitter for myself and I was kind of confused, did not really understand the purpose of it. It seems as a college student, my peers and I use Facebook, AIM, and Myspace to do a lot of the same things that Twitter does (keeping people up to date on what we are doing)…and it seems like people just love to put themselves out there on the internet.
I shouldn’t be complaining, and I’m not, because I myself have a facebook and AIM which I find very very useful. I can keep my employees and professors up to date on what I am doing, but sometimes there are certain people who I do not like seeing all of the information that is out there about me.
From reading your blog and checking out the site for myself, Twitter does seem like an interesting site, but I do not understand what the hype is about it either. It seems like there is already so much like Twitter already that people really don’t need it.
I really hope you continue blogging because I really like your writing and I think you have some great things to say. You are very right about Twitter and I can’t wait to see a blog update after you become a member.
Have a good one
Matt
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