Alright, I’ve tried twitter once for a couple of days and I don’t see the point. I’m in the tech business and I just don’t get it. I suppose that if you’re a famous person and you want to connect with your fans on a regular basis, it’s a good idea but on the more pedestrian level that I operate on, it seems a shade much. I don’t have “fans”. Heck, my daughter doesn’t really think I’m cool anymore.
I tied my twitter account into my facebook account and I was updating my status like 20 times a day. I quit doing that as I noticed when other people did it I found it annoying so it seemed idiotic for me to bombard the world with my status updates. I find it hard to believe that people are at all interested in the everyday workings of my life anyways.
So, I don’t really know what to do with all of this. I still like facebook but I don’t update as often as I used to. My friends do comment on my updates and I have fun doing it but I can’t really imagine going much past that. One thing that seems kind of appealing would be to twitter in real-time as we go through the budget. I like that as an alternative to updating the blog all the time with endless budget updates. The only problem with that, of course, is that I need to pay attention while those meetings are going on!….:)
November 8, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I’m with you Andy. I just don’t get the point, and I’ve tried. I see more and more even tech geeks dropping twitter of late. At some point we need to live our lives, not spend so much time telling others what we’re doing.
November 9, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I work in the industry and have never, personally, seen the need for Twitter and believe that most people’s use of the application is pointless. However, I have seen a positive use for the application. For example, Prince William County Police have a Twitter feed through which they publish events such as road closures due to accidents, Amber alerts, and other items geared toward informing the public of safety concerns. This is where I believe the real value lies. I do not have a twitter account, but subscribe to an RSS feed for the PW PD.
November 9, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Agree completely. Andy, your bicycling seems like a much healthier–and interesting to follow–pursuit. Cant see the interest in what people have for dinner, how they broke a shoe lace that morning, etc…;-)
November 9, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I found out the City of Manassas just funded $100,000 for Virginia Civil War 2012 re-enactment & related events by Twitter. Jonathan Arehart was sitting in the council chambers, waiting to give a presentation and tweeted? twittered? the news.
I also follow the PW PD. Matt Stromberg in GTS and I asked the City Police if they were going to use Twitter and they said not at present.
I’m a writer. I like it when I see a complete story arc in 140 words. We’re so disconnected. Megachurches. Gated communities. Town centers. Twitter, Facebook, local blogs, are all connectors.
November 10, 2009 at 7:05 am
good points Cindy.
November 10, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I don’t argue the potential value of such things as RSS and Twitter and Such for government outreach. I grab this site and comments RSS feeds in my BlackBerry, as well as the City’s RSS feeds.
I just don’t see the value in blow by blow accounting of some individual’s life. Then again, I don’t watch TMZ nor have I ever bought a National Enquirer…
From my BlackBerry Storm…
November 10, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Here’s a link to an article, “Neighbors Twitter, blog to keep criminals at bay”
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8301343
It quotes retired City of Manassas Police Chief Chris Tutko, who will be taking part in the Neighborhood Watch Roundtable at the City’s Neighborhood Conference on Saturday at the Boys & Girls Club, 9 am to 3 pm.