I twitter therefore I am

I’ve now been twittering for a while. It started out as an experiment. So here are my observations so far:

• I enjoy twittering.
• I have built a group of “followers” who provide good feedback (9 at present).
• I “follow” a small number of others (11 at present).
• Two of these are organisations using twitter (BBCTech and Endgadget). I’m not sure how long they will survive. The noise to signal ratio is quite high.
• I enjoy providing feedback to others but I tend to be a bit shy about it for some reason.
• I normally only twitter in working hours. Twittering about my private life would be too time consuming.
• I haven’t integrated twitter and facebook.
• I am showing my twitter on my blog.
• I still have no idea why I write what I write.

In many respects I use twitter as a diary notepad. If you want to see what I am doing then twitter is probably as good a place as any to find out.

The 11 people that I follow currently generate a lot of output. I work in teams that are a lot larger than that, I’m not sure how well it would scale if I got that same level of output from the larger team.

I can imagine a security person really struggling to get their head around the potential security risks of twitter, and hence the potential appropriate use policy. Suspect that it’s so difficult that they would just say – “don’t use it”.

I’ve tried a number of clients (Twitteroo, TwitBox, Twhirl). I’m settled on twirl for now.  There is still a lot of development to go with these tools and I suspect that we will start to see some clear leaders coming forward quite soon. I moved on from twitteroo because I started to get .net framework crashes on my primary PC and suspected twitteroo. Once I removed it I no longer got the crashes. I moved on quite quickly from Twitbox because URL’s weren’t click-able.