Twitter was all lit up like a new baby at this year's SXSW. There were more APIs than KPIs.
I remember in 2006 when it was just launched and I could not stand the buzzing it caused my phone or the inanities I was being buzzed about. "I'm eatin pizza at XXXX and then a bunch of us are going to hear the Buzzcocks at The Lucky Duck Lounge."
I was annoyed and unimpressed. I forgot my login and quietly let my initial twitter presence die within weeks of the conference.
Jump forward to SXSW 09 and I was wondering how I had not put my twitter username on my business cards. Man the BUZZ was on. Every other API seemed to link into twitter in some way. The bloggers lounge was more of a tweeters lounge.
There were people who had been in the business for years who still did not get Twitter. There were newcomers who seemed to have rediscovered Twitter for the rest of us. There were the TwitterSpams, TwitterPorn, TwitterMarketing, TwitterVirus(es), TwitterScams, AutoTwitterers, DelayedTweetTools, Twitter4Business, Twitter4SocialMedia……. [URP!] Epic fail! And the deepest Twitter disconnect for me, a Twitter draft (out)box where you saved tweets you were still working on or wanted to delay sending until later..
Makes me think of a wake up challenge I have been thinking about lately. "You're gonna tweet your life away."
Is there anything you are tweeting that is worthy of capture? If it is worth of capture how are you capturing it? Is it worthy of a blog post? Is it a discussion starter? Is there any meaning behind the term microblogging?
I have worked on a Social Media matrix, and here is my take on Twitter. Me, Moi, Mine… Only an opinion. Twitter is for REALTIME conversations with REAL PEOPLE. When anything is delayed or triggered automatically, I think you have got the wrong system of commnication. What you are looking for in that case is EMAIL.
Be an Auto-Bot at your own peril, may your stream wither and slow to a crawl.
@jmacofearth
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