Comments on: Twitter backlash begins?

By: Joshua Clanton

Joshua Clanton — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:56:49 +0000

Twitter is useful for certain things. (For instance, as a status system should your web app go offline unexpectedly.)

The problem isn’t Twitter, but the hype thereof.

PS: If you find your stream filled with inane tweets, that’s because you’ve chosen to follow inane tweeters. :-)

By: Steve McLeod

Steve McLeod — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:35:36 +0000

After some months of avid twittering, I had a sudden moment when I realised it was just bothersome noise. A few weeks ago I gave up on it for good, not even bothering with a farewell tweet. I haven’t missed it at all.

By: Vendetta

Vendetta — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:00:58 +0000

We just recently started using Twitter. Since than, we launched a new version of our product and had good experience with people re-tweeting information about the launch, posting suggesting and comments etc.

Most of the time we just use search to find mentions and reply. Sometimes we tweet about something that we find interesting, but not too often. Most of the time, we just reply to other people’s questions, say thanks when they purchase our product and share that with their friends etc.

Basically, we use it:

1. To be approachable
2. To answer questions and help when people need assistance

We don’t search for our competitors or recommend our product when competitor is mentioned, we don’t spam (still have more followers than tweets) etc. It’s just another communication change that you can use to get in touch with your customers.

By: George

George — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:32:32 +0000

My backlash began about 5 minutes after I started using it. 99.9% of tweets are totally inane. I just stick to blogs and Google Reader stay informed of _useful_ information.

By: Chuck Brooks

Chuck Brooks — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:35:40 +0000

Even doctors have ADD, using Twitter during surgeries. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Tort lawyers, who are cranking up their e-discovery engines. All that traffic will be put into the public domain, like the Microsoft antitrust case, which is still supporting armies of lawyers and analysts and graduate students. Should be interesting.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG