Normally it’s embarrassing to admit you missed the latest technology boat.
“Especially if you’re say, a journalist, who’s paid to be informed.” Check out this pretty great sendup of how the Twitter hubbub has rippled through the media recently:
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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve explained Twitter over the past year…
What I usually tell people is they need to try it for themselves. Those with vision and a little patience tend to get it. Those without need more coaxing or truly shouldn’t be on it.
The funniest thing to me is everyone asking about rules and etiquette. To me the beauty of Twitter (and most social media) is that it’s whatever you want it to be. That’s the whole point.
And nobody has realized mainstream success with a simpler, more universal, or more expandable base mechanism for web communication than Twitter.
great video.
and aswindler, you are nicer than others. and more lax with rules, as i think it should be!
yeah, i was late to the twitter game… and after about a week into it, i experienced my first “twitter scold” yesterday. in my haste, i didn’t write his actual account name in a reply (don’t ask me why i didn’t actually just hit the reply button). i sent him a direct message saying “oh sorry, new to this, i meant you in that reply” and he would not suffer my newbie mistake but instead called me out in a tweet telling me i should “You should attack some twitter instructions to your glasses with an A47.” i resisted the urge to say “i think you mean attach and C47″ in an effort to be polite, but oops… i guess i ruined that here.
anyway, i consider twitter to be an all-accepting forum. i mean, i talk about what i’m eating for lunch or what actor i think it’s hot. for people to get up in arms about rules and etiquette is silly – if you don’t like what you read, you can stop following.
Good example. Yeah, people like to build these little playgrounds, tout all the wonderful benefits of an open social media world, then berate people for bringing new ideas and methods to the table if they weren’t in the inner circle. I think the people behind Twitter got it exactly right. Create a mechanism that’s so unbelievably simple that people HAVE to figure out how to use it for themselves. I think it’s a beautiful thing and your example makes me a little angry/sad. Oh well, we have to make room for haters too.