Comments on: It’s better than good, it’s Twitterific

By: mitchjoel

mitchjoel — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:34:48 +0000

I also find it fascinating that my twitter profile ranks higher than my LinkedIn profile when I do an ego-surf on “mitch joel” in Google. There does seem to be a strong appetite for the content in twitter.

My primary use to flick out there short snippets or insights that are not “Blog-worthy.” I try not to post in twitter stuff I have in my other channels.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:33:01 +0000

A fair point, Joe.

To be honest, I would have to say that my view of Twitter -- like my
view of blogs -- is that it's somewhere in that grey area between
marketing and conversation.

Do I want people to know about and read my new blog posts? Sure I do.
Do I want to have a conversation with them about those posts?
Definitely.

Like I said, my view continues to evolve. Thanks for the input.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:10:19 +0000

So when do we get “Techmeme: Twitter Edition”?

By: Joseph Thornley

Joseph Thornley — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:52:45 +0000

Mathew, I personally view Twitter as a vehicle for conversation with the people whose ideas and blogs I find interesting. And this is reflected in the fact that I follow about 80% of the people who follow me.

This isn't a criticism, just an observation. The fact that you follow only 1 in 10 of the people who follow you suggests that you have a different view of Twitter. Combine that with the fact that you tweet about every one of your blog posts and it raises the question: Do you view it primarily as a promotional vehicle - another way to attract attention and promote traffic to your blog?

I'm not suggesting that there is anything wrong with that. But I think that if you look at the follower/following ratio, it's a quick giveaway of whether people see Twitter as conversation or marketing.

Just a thought. :-)