Comments on: The Two Sides of Twitter: Borderline Obsessive Compulsive and The Person Who Simply Answers The Question http://www.techipedia.com/2007/the-two-sides-of-twitter/ tamar weinberg is a digital marketing specialist, social media consultant, and tech geek at heart Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Headlines of Note for March 13, 2007 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/the-two-sides-of-twitter/#comment-3279 Headlines of Note for March 13, 2007 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:55:07 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/13/the-two-sides-of-twitter-borderline-obsessive-compulsive-and-the-person-who-simply-answers-the-question/#comment-3279 [...] The Two Sides of Twitter  [...] [...] The Two Sides of Twitter  [...]

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.techipedia.com/2007/the-two-sides-of-twitter/#comment-3276 Tamar Weinberg Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:19:02 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/13/the-two-sides-of-twitter-borderline-obsessive-compulsive-and-the-person-who-simply-answers-the-question/#comment-3276 Judah, it took me awhile too, and I'm starting to feel inundated with all the posts! Judah, it took me awhile too, and I’m starting to feel inundated with all the posts!

]]> By: Judah http://www.techipedia.com/2007/the-two-sides-of-twitter/#comment-3275 Judah Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:13:50 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/13/the-two-sides-of-twitter-borderline-obsessive-compulsive-and-the-person-who-simply-answers-the-question/#comment-3275 Tamar, Great posting! For me, the jury is still out on twitter. Thanks to this post though, at least I have an idea of what I'm doing there...;-) LOL! Tamar,

Great posting!

For me, the jury is still out on twitter.
Thanks to this post though, at least I have an idea of what I’m doing there…;-) LOL!

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.techipedia.com/2007/the-two-sides-of-twitter/#comment-3256 Tamar Weinberg Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:17:21 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/13/the-two-sides-of-twitter-borderline-obsessive-compulsive-and-the-person-who-simply-answers-the-question/#comment-3256 Hey Chris, this is true and I touched upon it briefly in the post, though not as in depth as I could have (my emphasis on “two sides” really isn’t quite two-sided after all), when I said “Beyond that, there’s tremendous value for businesses, conferences, and finding out the latest news happenings.”

To be honest, the Scoble-type Twitter user does kind of incorporate a lot of those ideas — microblogging, promoting other media (to a point), and communication, for example. I don’t see those who emphasize note-taking to be the best use of the “community,” but hey, Twitter allows for it, doesn’t it? :)

I guess my intention was to show that there really is a super-Twitter user who really does do just about everything you could basically do on Twitter, but there also are those users on Twitter who use it “minimally.” The success of the service will be coming from the former rather than the latter, since something does need to drive people to continue to come back.

]]> By: Chris Heuer http://www.techipedia.com/2007/the-two-sides-of-twitter/#comment-3244 Chris Heuer Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:35:57 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/13/the-two-sides-of-twitter-borderline-obsessive-compulsive-and-the-person-who-simply-answers-the-question/#comment-3244 I think these are some really good distinctions and thoughts, but there are even more types of users to consider. Those who use it like Dodgeball, those who use it to promote other media, those who use it to communicate with each other, those who microblog, those who take notes for themselves and probably another dozen types of users and user activities. This is just the beggining, but the signal to noise ratio must be kept with the right sort of balance - at least for me. Some people may use it as a primary communications channel for keeping in touch with groups of friends, or just groups (we will use it for social media club). People will use it as they will... and that is the real point - it must be a personally relevant communications channel for it to succeed, and that it is. I think these are some really good distinctions and thoughts, but there are even more types of users to consider. Those who use it like Dodgeball, those who use it to promote other media, those who use it to communicate with each other, those who microblog, those who take notes for themselves and probably another dozen types of users and user activities.

This is just the beggining, but the signal to noise ratio must be kept with the right sort of balance – at least for me. Some people may use it as a primary communications channel for keeping in touch with groups of friends, or just groups (we will use it for social media club). People will use it as they will… and that is the real point – it must be a personally relevant communications channel for it to succeed, and that it is.

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