Twitter Monday

I'm on Twitter.  I started in October of 2007.  I like to call myself an early adopter.  What can I say, I'm a big deal.

Here are two things I like about it and two things I don't.

I like...

• ...that it's simple.  I don't need games and surveys.  Just give me the goods.
• ...that I can sync my twitter with facebook so each time I tweet it updates my facebook status as well.  I haven't actually updated my facebook status on facebook in well over a year.

I don't like...

• ...that you can't track conversations very well.  If I tweet something and then don't check in with the ol' twitter for awhile I have to scroll back several pages to find any sort of response.  It also doesn't organize multiple responses in a list.  Facebook does this quite well.
• ...all of the weird symbols.  I am not going to take time to research what "@" and "RT" stand for.  I feel like there should be a much more intuitive approach.  And seriously is it a tweet, twerp, or twit.  Can we all just agree on something?

Comments

[Natalie Fletcher]

As far as the distinction as to whether to call your postings a "tweet, twerb, or twit"...I think Twit fits you well! =)

[Rachel]

I thought twerp was something my big sister called me as a child.

[Doug Couch]

I think my favorite thing about twitter is that it can give people in a large group training session the opportunity for feedback. At the start of a session everyone agrees on a tag ie. #robstraining and then while Rob is up talking people can tweet comments or a synopsis of what's being said and include the tag. Then you can either just search for the content later and have a summary or you can use twitterfall or something similar and see the comments real-time and incorporate them into the session.

[Doug Couch]

Here's a really good article about using twitter hashtags to provide a "backchannel" during a presentation. http://snurl.com/ks3gs My own experience with it has been very good. it keeps me awake and in tune with the presentation.