{"id":300,"date":"2009-09-18T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/09\/18\/on_what_i_had_for_breakfast\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:55:23","slug":"on_what_i_had_for_breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/09\/18\/on_what_i_had_for_breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"On what I had for breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Soviet Russia, breakfast tweets YOU<\/em><\/p>\n

\nI follow a few people on Twitter, from a total of three accounts (which we might class as personal<\/a>, business<\/a> and hobby<\/a>, I guess). Some of them are kind enough to follow me back. And I’ve noticed quite a strange, yet encouraging, phenomenon over the last year or so.<\/p>\n

\nTwitter has moved from being a somewhat banal way of telling the world what you had for breakfast, to a useful tool. It’s used for exchanging thoughts about speakers and what they’re saying at conferences. From a corporate point of view, it can be used to keep customers informed\u2014and more importantly, to listen to what they’re saying about you (that is, according to the self-appointed social media mavens, the third rule or something. I don’t really know. We’re all still learning to use it, notwithstanding what follows). I organized a meeting with a friend I hadn’t seen in four or more years on Tuesday, using Twitter.<\/p>\n

\nIt’s Twitter 2.0. <\/p>\n

\nThere are several interesting (and useful!) people I’ve met because I have twitter accounts, and recently I’ve been using it to drive traffic to various blogs. At work this week I had to decide whether a banner ad for our contributor site would feature our LinkedIn or Facebook page, or our twitter address. I realized that everything, sooner or later, went through twitter; so that one won (and then our web designer made a rotating banner so the question became moot, but anyway).<\/p>\n

\nThe 140 character limit, far from being limiting, has resulted in tremendously inventive ways of processing and aggregating information (it has to be said, helped enormously by http:\/\/bit.ly, which comes with built-in stats tools).<\/p>\n

\nEverybody who is anybody is doing it. Only a few years ago people were insisting ‘You must<\/em> have a website!’: that’s now so obvious that no one says it anymore. We’re not at that stage yet with Twitter, but we will be soon: and then the next new thing will come along (Twitter is already so mainstream that people are making YouTube parodies of Twitter applications<\/a>. Brilliant).<\/p>\n

\nI love living in the Twenty-first Century. Bring it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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