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Endless Twittering

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Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2009 at 8:47 am

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I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon a couple of months ago.

I didn’t really see the point of the micro-blogging phenomena; I mean, what could I say in 140 characters?

Anyway, I finally succumbed, initially tweeting through the Twitter website, then on my mobile phone using Twim and now I use a combination of that and Tweetdeck on the Mac and PC, or Choqok on Linux (until I can get Adobe Air working on Ubuntu.)

I follow people.  People follow me.  It could all be a bit dull, but I’ve found it really quite interesting.  It’s become my main way of getting news thanks to The Guardian and a local newspaper both using Twitter.  I’m able to follow Stephen Fry (doesn’t everyone?); Aceybongos, SuperKaylo, Major Nelson and MrPointyHead from Xbox; Empire and Total Film; along with many other who I have probably missed.

What are these people saying, though?  Well, the news outlets obviously link to news articles, Stephen Fry seems to be all over the place, but it’s the guys at Xbox that have really piqued my interest… they use Twitter for nonsensical chat, Xbox news and, most interestingly, they also use Twitter for online code giveaways and competitions.  It’s this that has moved it to more of an interactive experience.

Is Twitter the start of a new age of web access?  I’m not sure.  It’s the type of thing I can imagine someone like Google or Microsoft acquiring and monetising, or delivering advertising to make it turns a profit.  Ooooorrrrr, will it become like RSS, a really useful tool that is the type of thing that people rave about but often don’t use?

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