You know that twitter is over when marketing conferences feature sessions advising businesses to use twitter for advertising and the mainstream media NY Times starts running “how to” articles. Tech columnist David Pogue’s article titled “Twittering Tips for Beginners” has comments such as:
- “Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks” — hmmm, maybe in 2007?
- “I’ve been Twittering for a couple of months, and I’ve learned a lot”
- “some people, like Guy [Kawasaki], use automated software robots to churn out tweets, largely to promote their own blogs, sites or other products”
(my) snarkiness aside, it’s a decent introductory piece with a nice section advising people on some tools like twitterrific and also explaining his sense of how to best get value of of twitter (hint: not by tweeting “I’m eating lunch now”).
I was chatting with a pal over the holidays who said that twitter has become a performance space ever since they broke the privacy model. Isn’t that how all these things go. When any social media starts, if you’re in the first wave, there’s a period of time when you can be yourself, and you know who roughly who might be listening. By the time your boss, and your bosses boss, and another boss further up are all following you, your ability to be candid is gone.
Me, I stopped twittering when they disabled IM access. I don’t keep a cell phone handy all the time so no SMS, and couldn’t be bothered to go to the website. I suppose one day I should go install tweet deck or twitterific and get back in the flow. But, and it may be that I don’t know what I’m now missing, but a tweet-less life doesn’t seem so bad.
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