I don’t get twitter. Just about everyone is blogging about it and I don’t get it. Okay, I get that you can use Twitter to send messages to anyone saying what you are doing but, why? Technorati is tracking 27,092 blog results for Twitter. Oh, make that 27,093. Google is currently tracking 58,158 blog entries.
Bloggers say there’s a buzz about Twitter. Okay, it’s hip, but what’s the point? Is it that Twitter gives us another way of connecting or is it that it’s a nice free diversion? There are a lot of diversions on the Internet, all impacting on the work day let alone personal time when we used to talk to each other in person and on the telephone.
I just don’t see the point of using Twitter to communicate. I’m sure companies will block access once they see how much time can be lost by geeks saying, to anyone with the time on their hands to read, that they are eating, reading, thinking, bludging … yeah, bludging.
Do people really want to know what I am doing right now?
I’m with you – Twitter seems like a big, self-indulgent waste of time.
That said, I have done similar things from time to time, particularly when I am trying to track the ‘intangibles’ that I achieve in a day. It’s easy to say that you wrote 10 pages of a manual, or facilitated 3 workshops, or cut x lines of code, or handled y support calls, but the non-quantifiable benefits are often overlooked.
* I talked to a client on the phone today to see how her sick dog was doing.
* I spoke to my daughter’s teachers about her developmental progress.
* I made a critical mental leap on a project.
I’m not sure (read: I doubt) that Twitter is the right format for this, but there’s a place for it.