Comments on: The Value of Twitter

By: Pamela Weir

Pamela Weir — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:55:43 +0000

@Dat
I agree. I think people forget that much of our communication on the internet will leave a permanent mark. Although, we shouldn’t let that prevent us from trying new things.

Once people get to know you they’ll forget whatever bumbling you think you did in the early days of your twitter account.

At some point, your new “conversational” tweets will overshadow the old ones. As we figure out the best ways to use these tools to communicate, we’re bound to make mistakes.

Thanks for sharing your story here. I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way.

By: Dat To

Dat To — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:09:04 +0000

Thank you for this great article on twitter. Your info is quick and to the point and I love your layout!

I have a friend who’s an internet junkie/guru type and he told me about twitter ages ago. I opened an account and it sat till this past dec. I didn’t know what to do with it. The interface was confusing. Didn’t get the purpose. Didn’t understand why the search bar option was on another page. Thank God my friend was persistent and kept sending me stuff like this cute video that you’ve posted.

And when I got on, I didn’t really know how to use it and was probably seen as a spammer. I got so excited once I started thinking that I understand the implications of using twitter, that common sense didn’t prevail.

The trouble with this internet stuff is learning and bumbling in the process is a digital trail left forever.

By: Pamela Weir

Pamela Weir — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:05:36 +0000

@Marcia,

I’ll have to try disabling the poking as well.
I didn’t know it was possible.
Thanks for the tip.

By: Marcia, Organising Queen

Marcia, Organising Queen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:16:23 +0000

I disabled all that poking and now (blessedly) I only get actual messages and friend requests to my email.

A MUCH better use of my time…

By: Pamela Weir

Pamela Weir — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:00:44 +0000

Hey Angela,
Thank you for commenting.
As for the facebook poking, I guess if we just stopped poking back, we’d probably end the cycle.
Oh well, as long as people are participating I guess it can’t really do any harm. I just wish there was a ‘poke all’ button.
It would really save a lot of time.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:32:42 +0000

Oh I like the videos those guys do.. that one was interesting. Yea, I just don’t get Twitter.. there’s something about it that just bugs me.

Quote:
“And as far as I can tell, Facebook is a perpetual “poking” machine.”

LOL.. that made me laugh! It seems like the same people just poke me and I poke them back and it goes on forever, lol..

Angela