Comments on: Twitter

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:16:10 +0000

Now it makes more sense. Good for a group of people who need to have sort of like an on-going text meeting instead of each person communicating by group email. I sure could have used something like this during the course of this past week.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:46:15 +0000

Interesting link David. I don’t even have the SMS capabilities of Twitter activated. But even then: a lot of people are so good at text messaging that they can whip out a message in a few seconds.

By: David SB

David SB — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:32:42 +0000

Coincidentally, I just saw this in my Google Reader. All about twitter etiquette:

http://www.chow.com/stories/10910

By: David SB

David SB — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:42:37 +0000

Thanks, Chris. I think I begin to see the potential value when a network of people are twittering together. A coffee house or restaurant could broadcast daily specials or spur-of-the-moment offers to its regular customers and reach them on cell phones even if they’re not on a computer at the moment.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:57:34 +0000

On Saturday I “Twittered” that my Sunday afternoon chess group needed a 4th person. Someone following me on Twitter showed up.

It’s only valuable if you get your friends to use Twitter as well, or you run a business and work to get your customers following you.

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:44:13 +0000

David. No you aren’t wrong in the least. But if you are a blogger on have people you know who are it becomes like an rss feed of their life. I meetup with people now and again just being bored and announcing that i am going to be at a certain place.

By: David SB

David SB — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:34:08 +0000

I don’t think I get Twitter, but then again I’ve never been into instant messaging or text messaging. I guess the downsides I see with Twitter are 1) banality — sort of like the trivial discussions that characterized most Seinfeld episodes 2) TMI — I can just see someone posting stuff like “on the toilet now.” I hope I’m wrong; maybe I’m just too old to get it.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:17:08 +0000

Yeah, one of the other things is that if you have few friends on Twitter, then it is less interesting.

I’m hoping a few more coffee shop owners get into it, and we can have some good discussion back and forth.

By: Austin

Austin — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:36:54 +0000

I think thats the thing about twitter. There isn’t really much to get. It almost like a permanent chat room or also a place to tell people about what you are doing or what is going on. Also the fact that you don’t have to visit the site all the time is a plus. Its not really much of a place for introverts though.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:33:00 +0000

I guess I don’t get it. Looks like most people write a few blogs to begin with, then forget about it. But then I’m not into MySpace-type things either. I must be missing something here (I’m sure)

By: Ron Cortez

Ron Cortez — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:10:22 +0000

I certainly will start mine today. Thank you Chris for the tip.

By: AzBill

AzBill — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:38:16 +0000

Wow, make twitter a part of your marketing for a coffee shop. What a great idea! I wonder what forward-thinking coffee shop owners will jump on that bandwagon? I wonder which ones already have…

http://www.twitter.com/daily_buzz