The Power of Twitter

Yes I must say I too was on the WTF Fence with Twitter but find myself using it alot nowadays.

I haven’t quite got too confortable with Twitter myself yet. It seems like an awesome idea, but it just seems all so hard to submit stuff, and recieve them aswell.

I wasn’t sure about Twitter either when I first signed up, but I would say that its definitely more useful than I had expected.

Hope that modMunch suits your needs and those of anyone else who doesn’t really want dozens of moderation emails clogging their inbox.

I love Twitter. While I was never on the WTF fence, I didn’t get the point of it at first. I’m not sure I do even now, but I love it all the same. That said, I probably wouldn’t bother with Twitter at all if it weren’t for Twitterrific.

Twitterific really kicked it off for me, without it I don’t think I’d have jumped on it very quickly. Now that they have a mobile site I use it way more than I should.

Never used Twitter, but I’m liking Jaiku. The mobile dimension does it for me.

I didn’t sign up to Twitter right away, I was a little late to the play – though I’m really pleased with the Twitter community now, I really enjoy how I can hear about things instantaneous. Twitter is more than a place to see what my friends are up to for me.

I’m suprised you can stay up to date /w your massive friends list.

I haven’t tried Twitterific, ill probably download that tonight and try it out.

While Twitter is great, its only of any use if your a popular guy such as yourself! Say i post similar stuff on Twitter chances are no one will give two fucking shits. But good point none the less, im using it thesedays just for fun really.

After being on the fence for a while, I recently jumped in. For the first few weeks I was rather impressed with everything, people were saying more usefull things than not.

However, the last week of Twitter for me has left me unbelievably frustrated and wanted to through the damn application out of the window and straight to the oversized trash can logo. Cocky people, updates every few seconds, and other things of that nature are all leading reasons as to why.

Instead I have narrowed my list to just people who say credible (or funny) things, such as yourself, Jeremy Boles, Kegan Jones, and Jeff Smith. This has seemed to help a bit.

I’ve come across Twitter before, but not really used it because I didn’t quite understand it.

However, reading your post certainly shed some light on it’s uses, and has spurred me into action & I’ve signed up.

However, i use a windows machine, and i dont have such luxuries as twitterific, so all my twitters are done via the web.

Seems pretty fun though! Don’t know many people who use it though so i doubt my ‘tweet’s’ will be read, but I’ve been reading yours, and several other top-class designers!

For awhile I thought this whole “twitter” thing was really stupid and wasn’t going to be a part of it… but your post brought up a lot of interesting benefits of it so I’m giving it a shot.

However… is it common for twitter to have significant downtime as it has right now? I’ve seen that kitty with the screwdriver image waaayy too many times considering I’ve been using this for just barely a day…

I find it difficult to distinguish between the dust particles on my monitor and the grunge in your background… fantastic

@Jesse, I am in the EXACT same boat as you and I was on my way here to make a post about how ridiculously slow it’s been the past day that I have been using it. I figured maybe I caught them at a bad time during heavy traffic or upgrades?

Oh well, it’s a fun way to keep people up to date…if I can remember to update it, ha.

I suggest you have a look at Jaiko (jaiko.com) too. I like it even better than Twitter. It allows you to track different feeds of one users, for instance his del.icio.us bookmarks, his blog posts, his tweets, the songs he plays etc…

I’ve found myself becoming more and more addicted to twitter. It’s a nice way of seeing what people with similar interests are up to.

The only downside is that if the other users don’t have you as a friend then you can’t join in with the fun. Like the other day Andy Clarke was doing a guessing game with fellow ‘peers’ like Hicks Design and Simplebits etc and I wanted to join in, but obviously couldn’t.

The works both positive and negative as whilst users feel left out due to ‘eliteism’ you also get to choose who you get feeds from.

I also feel like a seedy stalker sometimes. Like I have you (Matt) as a friend but due to it being one way, as much as I like seeing what others are up to, it seems a little strange.

I signed up for it a while ago (after discovering the link to it on this site…) and I still only updated it once. I better make some use of it along with some other things I signed up for and haven’t used yet. :\

I just experienced this some days ago—posted a tweet where I reported a problem I had with some Ruby on Rails and boom, there was the solution.

Great! The only thing that annoys me are people who use twitter instead of IM—resulting in endless discussions and a ton of txt messages on my mobile

Oh, yes—these discussions aren’t only endless, they’re pointless for me as well. That makes it even more annoying

I’m hooked on the twitter too. Took a bit to find the urge to tweet, but I’m over that now.
The problem I found was getting other people hooked too.

WOW, you’ve just convinced me to setup a twitter account! byebye facebook status updates

That’s fab, I always thought twitter was just some other “teen” thing, man I sound old saying that!

No but I never though it would amount to anything, just something else to mess about with.

However, I can see its uses now, and it seems pretty great, I’ll seriously ponder it on my companies blog.

Some of those other plugings etc are blummin useful, you should attach a $$$ on them