| I have the Twitter bug now too + Why it took so long to catch | |
So I heard about Twitter early last year and was all WTF? Who would use this and why?
Part of the joy of the service was how it allowed you to keep track of your friends, but the mass of users using it were centered in regions far from me so that aspect was lacking (even now very few people on my contact lists use it, less than 15 out of more than a 1000 people - and some of those 15 are complete strangers).
The Problem With All this Fancy New Stuff
I am currently working on a list of sites and software of use to indie bands and labels, and Twitter illustrates a great point when exploring all the current and always coming technology available: unless the tech meets an actual need - there is little point in using it. In fact wasting time on sites or services that do not actually address a real need or problem could do more harm, if for no other reason than wasting your limited time and serving as a distraction.
Solution to the problem = Need
There is nothing different about the service offered by Twitter since I first heard about it. What has changed is that I have identified a need that it can address. Last week I was away, and in the past for other reasons, I have not blogged for extended periods of time. I have been looking for ways to address that lack of posting and in this new light when Twitter was mentioned again it hit me - short simple updates via Twitter could address regular visitors as to why I didn’t have the time to be writing lengthier or more frequent posts.
As another benefit, it will also give readers some additional and different input to who I am and what I do than what may come through regular posts.
All in all I found a reason to use Twitter that addresses I need I had and that at the end of the day leaves me to believe that it will improve this blog.
I have also installed the Twitbin add-on for Firefox. Twitbin is a browser add-on or extension that allows you to use twitter from anywhere on the web. No comments on that myself yet but if interested in trying out Twitter it may be of interest to you.
You can watch to see what I am up to when I am not blogging (and likely when I am) by checking the widget on the right, via the RSS feed or at http://www.twitter.com/quietrevolution
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