Okay this is a quickie–just wanted to share a comment I posted on a blog I found through someone who started following me on Twitter. Read his post that ignited the comment, My use for Twitter, and my not use. Here were my thoughts…

****

Sarah Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Hi new Twitter buddy! Here’s another use for your Twitter account…it just led me to your blog! And yes, I have shared many jokes with friends about how lame Twitter lingo is. Overheard in the office: “Why won’t this fit in my Twitter?!!” Hilarious. (Actually, the jokes are only with my friends/coworkers who are social media nerds–my actual friends outside the media industry haven’t bought into Twitter yet, noting that they can just use FB status updates).

Seriously though, good post. Twitter noise is something I wrestle with every time I open up my TwitBin (notice the use of Twitter lingo). My thoughts? Unlike other services meant to help you find the most relevant and most pertinent bits of info, I have found the best tidbits via Twitter to be random. As long as you build a community on Twitter of people engaged in activities that interest you, the discussion should be relevant. I never worry about back tracking (okay, occasionally I’ll go crazy and back track to see if some well-known Twitter/blogger extraordinaire (Paul Bradshaw, Anastasia of YPulse, etc.) or if a friend or coworker has replied to me, but MOST of the time, I count my losses. I don’t RELY on Twitter for info. I count on it to sporadically enhance the information I get with links I might not have found and info I might not have gotten otherwise. And I have to note, there is an element of community–a feel-good feeling (redundant, I know)–that comes with Twitter. It’s there if I need to vent. It’s there if I get stuck with a problem and I need to ask for help, and it’s there to provide me with the random treasures of info when I’m sick of all my highly-focused and targeted vehicles.

Of course, all of that is not to say one couldn’t set up a Twitter for a specific community of people with the goal of keeping it relevant–a group of coworkers for example, who use it as a project management tool; or a business/organizational entity who might, as you said, see fit to hitting the sweet spots for their audiences.

Glad to have you join my subconscious stream of randomness that is my Twitter feed.

***

That’s the story and I’m sticking to it. If you’re interested in Twitter, you can find my feed here. Love to have you join the fun.

Goodnight. Tweet tight.

Ha.