Archive for March, 2009

Twittered Out?

Mar 25th

Posted by Mike Beckham in Blog

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Are you like me? Sick of all the media attention Twitter has been receiving lately? It’s so over the top, you’d think its the next sliced bread.

I have been a user since 2007, and only now over the past few weeks has it gotten any attention and I am completely over hearing about. I’ll continue using it, as it is useful and fun but I don’t need to be told by news anchors who know nothing about it, how fantastic it is.

John C. Dvorak a noted technology columnist has written an on point article about why it is useful, and not just a fad. It may be a fad with the media – however in the long term for end users it could be a long term service.

‘The Nine Ways to Use Twitter’ is the article and two of my favourites are…

Public Address System: Because I produce a couple of streaming podcasts that have no official start times, I use Twitter to announce the fact that a streaming show is going to begin. It’s a bit like using Twitter as a public address system.

Crowd-sourcing: I also use it to poll people and for crowd-sourcing information. I can ask my Twitter followers a question that I cannot find the answer to, and within seconds someone will know the answer or have a link to it.

Of course for some of these to work, you need a lot of followers. Otherwise its just a nice way of keeping in touch. Just like Facebook, but for those of us who don’t want application invites.

Need someone else to follow? @mikebeckham is the way to go…

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Twitter Meet Shark

Mar 14th

Posted by Mike Beckham in Blog

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twitterview2_090312_mainFollowing up on my previous post, Twitter has now officially jumped the shark.

Catch my “twitterview” with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday, March 17 at 12 noon on Twitter.

We’re going to attempt to conduct a full interview exclusively on Twitter — complete with the 140-character limit!

Whose stupid idea was this? It makes me almost want to stop using the service, but then how will I keep up to date with Martha Stewart?

Network This

Mar 3rd

Posted by Mike Beckham in Blog

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You can’t say I don’t keep up with the latest Social Networking trends. Twitter is/was the latest Social craze, however now the mainstream media has invaded it (as well as Diddy) then it is means it is probably on the way out like MySpace was in 2007/2008.

I signed up for Twitter and posted my first Tweet on January 26th 2007, long before it became a hang out for spam accounts and journalists tweeting about their last bowel movement.

I like stalking celebs as much as the next person, in fact I do on Twitter but when middle aged women from Arkansas start jumping on Twitter to message their favourite Fox News personality you know it may be nearing time to move on.

I think that time is fastly approaching for Twitter. Oh Well at least Facebook is still there to kill some time and inappropriately poke your male contacts.

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