Any Twitter-ers amongst us?

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Permalink Reply by DShan on November 6, 2007 at 10:41pm

can someone explain the use/attraction of twitter. i've tried and failed to find anything useful or interesting about it. this isn't meant to be directed at you, paull...i'm just curious.

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Permalink Reply by srah on November 6, 2007 at 10:52pm

I think of it as a cross between short-form blogging and mass email. It's useful for short announcements you want to make to a big group of people or for getting a question answered quickly. I've found it interesting to see what my friends get up to during the day - the small details of life that don't make it into blogs or emails or Christmas letters. Here's a post I wrote a while ago about Twitter.

@srah

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Permalink Reply by Angela on April 4, 2008 at 8:43am

Haha. D, it's funny to look back on this comment of yours now, as you've turned into such an addict. :)

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Permalink Reply by Holly Grande on April 13, 2008 at 7:40pm

I use it to keep up with professionals and peers in my field. People have posted questions, interesting advice and even job leads. It's been a great tool to keep up with what my peers are interesting in right now.

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Permalink Reply by heystephanie on June 10, 2008 at 10:34pm

Check out this article by ProBlogger: 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers

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Permalink Reply by Tasha M. on May 20, 2010 at 1:44am

I love this link, thanks so much for sharing it! I found it quite useful for sure =)

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer V. on May 20, 2010 at 2:40am

Problogger is just a great site in general to build your blog.

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on June 11, 2008 at 2:37am

It's fun. But I hear you on - how is it useful? The only thing that comes to mind is, if you have a popular blog than those who are loyal readers of yours can see what you're up to when you're not blogging.

But yeah, I'm still learning how to make Twitter worth it. lol :)

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Permalink Reply by June on October 25, 2008 at 12:27pm

i use it to keep up with grad schools / professional orgs / etc. mainly. but i like it because sometimes i have an opinion or reaction to something but it's not long enough to merit a blog post. thus, tweet! haha, i'm @urbanskyline

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Permalink Reply by Stiletto Sports Jen on January 15, 2009 at 7:31pm

Yeah I'm with you D. I use it but I have no idea what the real purpose is. I use it almost like my status updater on Facebook but apparently there is so much more to it....I'd love to understand!

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Permalink Reply by Brie on August 14, 2009 at 5:15pm

Hmm... I myself had no idea why anyone could find Twitter fun or amusing. BUT despite my better judgement, I joined. And at first I thought it was the dumbest thing... why would anyone want to know what someone was doing every second of the day? Well, all I can say is that I'm addicted now. So I think the appeal of it is that it is a way to express yourself and it might just give the false hope that someone out there actually DOES care what you're doing 24/7. It's nice to feel like someone is interested in what you've got to say.

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Permalink Reply by Claire Castagnera on November 7, 2009 at 3:30pm

I actually just wrote a blog post about this! I was really down on Twitter for a long time, but... like so many others, I've gotten sucked in :P I do think it has a few uses that I didn't acknowledge before, like being able to post blog updates and links to people who might never otherwise visit your blog. So, I don't know, I'm still kind of on the fence, but it's growing on me: http://intransitblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/wherein-i-eat-my-own-word...

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