tweeter?
Thursday, 23 October 2008
I’m currently in Kansas City, about to start the second day of the Reclaiming Paul – Emergent Village conference. I’m not going to post about any of the content from the previous evening, because the eventful event for me was the fact that tweeter seemed to be such a big deal with so many people while they were there. I’ve never gotten into the tweeter thing. I don’t “tweet” or read others’ “tweets”. But I am blown away at the popularity of it among the goers of this conference.
One of the presenters actually did a live tweet of the whole first session–nearly 200 tweets total. This seems really ‘cool’, but I am failing to see the value of it. Who are these tweets for and what value do they add for those people?
I am not necessarily against this technology but it just seems to be over blown. This hyper connectedness is just really strange to me. Should I, by reading someone’s tweets who is the conference as me, feel more connected to this person? And is this perceived connection a true connection or simply contrived?
Hopefully I will have a chance to connect–that is face to face communication–with some of the allstar tweeters to get some of their ideas on the topic
No. 1 — October 23rd, 2008 at 6:43 am
I think twitter is a lot of fun, and moderately useful in a ‘very slow instant messenger mixed w/ blogging’ sort of way. It’s the first time I’ve actually been interested in getting text messages on my phone (I haven’t yet, but the idea seems cool; and by cool, I mean fun).
But I’m with you–I don’t get the ‘live twitter’ thing as part of an event.
Twitter’s an enjoyable part of the internet, like Facebook without the stupid, but I don’t really see the value, outside of entertainment-style communication.