Comments on: Why I became a Twitter-Quitter by @nooneanymore http://socialmediafish.com/social-media/quit-twitter/ Community Management, Social & New Media Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: rogermbyrne http://socialmediafish.com/social-media/quit-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 rogermbyrne Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:40:34 +0000 http://socialmediafish.com/?p=1219#comment-1748 Hey Freerangemom, Just to clarify it's not me it's a guy called Ben who I know via Twitter and it was a surprise to me to be honest. The great thing I love about Twitter is the diversity of usage like you say it can be a news source ala Scoble or keeping in touch with friends who just ate a cheese sandwich. Thanks for the comment! Hey Freerangemom, Just to clarify it's not me it's a guy called Ben who I know via Twitter and it was a surprise to me to be honest. The great thing I love about Twitter is the diversity of usage like you say it can be a news source ala Scoble or keeping in touch with friends who just ate a cheese sandwich. Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: rogermbyrne http://socialmediafish.com/social-media/quit-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 rogermbyrne Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:43:02 +0000 http://socialmediafish.com/?p=1219#comment-1749 Hi Vin, First Thanks for taking the time to comment, the thing about Twitter is it is constantly evolving and changing imo, whats good today may not be tomorrow, how you used it yesterday might not be how you want to continue in the future, but thats OK each to their own! And Yes at the end of the day you have a choice... Hi Vin, First Thanks for taking the time to comment, the thing about Twitter is it is constantly evolving and changing imo, whats good today may not be tomorrow, how you used it yesterday might not be how you want to continue in the future, but thats OK each to their own! And Yes at the end of the day you have a choice…

]]> By: vinbrown http://socialmediafish.com/social-media/quit-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1747 vinbrown Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:05:24 +0000 http://socialmediafish.com/?p=1219#comment-1747 I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I use it mainly as a source of information so I do a lot of reading of tweets. But I also use it to share interesting links with others. In fact, almost every tweet that comes from my account contains a link. I think that is more valuable than a tweet with no link. After all, how much information can you put into 140 characters? Also, when I read tweets, I skim over the ones that don't contain links, these tweets are often something boring like "I just got home from work". I'm not interested in that so I scroll past it.<br><br>My followers are rapidly growing every day so I would say others also prefer, or at least, enjoy tweets that contain links.<br><br>To suggest that Digg and Delicious is for links and therfore Twitter is not to be used to share links is just silly in my opinion. <br><br>All in all though I have to say one of the greatest things about Twitter is that you can follow and unfollow whoever you want. This make one persons's Twitter experience very different from the next. There is no right or wrong way to use Twitter. I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I use it mainly as a source of information so I do a lot of reading of tweets. But I also use it to share interesting links with others. In fact, almost every tweet that comes from my account contains a link. I think that is more valuable than a tweet with no link. After all, how much information can you put into 140 characters? Also, when I read tweets, I skim over the ones that don't contain links, these tweets are often something boring like “I just got home from work”. I'm not interested in that so I scroll past it.

My followers are rapidly growing every day so I would say others also prefer, or at least, enjoy tweets that contain links.

To suggest that Digg and Delicious is for links and therfore Twitter is not to be used to share links is just silly in my opinion.

All in all though I have to say one of the greatest things about Twitter is that you can follow and unfollow whoever you want. This make one persons's Twitter experience very different from the next. There is no right or wrong way to use Twitter.

]]> By: Freerangemom http://socialmediafish.com/social-media/quit-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 Freerangemom Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:15:26 +0000 http://socialmediafish.com/?p=1219#comment-1746 Provacative post. I think the wrost thing to happen to twitter was people trying to follow 1000's. I don't mind the "just walked my dog" tweet from my friend, but not appropriate coming from someone like @scobleizer. However, everyone can't be a news source like Scoble. So what does that leave the rest of us to talk about besides retweets and links? I'm staying on twitter, but refocusing my use to be a smaller pond to swim in. I have to many real life contacts on Twitter to drop it. But certainly understand your motivation and reasons to do so. Best of luck in finding a meaningful place to connect on-line. If you find it, I hope you'll let a few of us in on the secret! Provacative post. I think the wrost thing to happen to twitter was people trying to follow 1000's. I don't mind the “just walked my dog” tweet from my friend, but not appropriate coming from someone like @scobleizer. However, everyone can't be a news source like Scoble. So what does that leave the rest of us to talk about besides retweets and links? I'm staying on twitter, but refocusing my use to be a smaller pond to swim in. I have to many real life contacts on Twitter to drop it. But certainly understand your motivation and reasons to do so. Best of luck in finding a meaningful place to connect on-line. If you find it, I hope you'll let a few of us in on the secret!

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