Posted on 11/13/2009 6:10:24 AM PST by Kaslin
Twitter is an interesting devise. Followed the Iran elections from real people not MSM. During the Santa Barbara, CA fires evacuation notices came faster on Twitter than from the news.
Also I just found out my youngest daughter cut her long brown hair and went with a short hair cut and blond! Never even asked her mom’s advice.....oh well, she does look cute.
Twitter is a means of largely unfiltered, instantaneous mass communication. Once upon a time Internet message boards were considered by some to be a passing fancy.
Look at Twitter as analogous to citizens band radio. Twitter has been cited as a reason why bad movies will sink a lot more quickly than before; people will tweet reviews while the movie is in progress and thus put their friends on notice whether they should plan to watch something else. Word gets around quickly.
I have been using it to follow Newt Gingrich. His tweets pop up on my Trillian Astra and I thus get to know what he’s thinking about while I’m working with little interruption. If it is something interesting, I click on the pop-up and read the article he is linking.
That, Google Alerts and RSS feeds are making it so I am given info on things I am following almost as they happen.
Bottom line: More info, less work — and much quicker.
I’m a fan of huge t...
Oh wait: you said TWITs!
huge...tracts of land
He ain't carrying around that Blackberry for his health.
There are a lot of very funny, interesting people to follow on Twitter. They post funny, thoughtful and useful stuff.
It is also a very useful tool for driving traffic to websites. Most of the traffic on my sites (unrelated to politics) comes from links posted on Twitter. I have posted stuff that gets retweeted and many, many people who are not following me will come to my site.
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