On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Supriya Nair <supriya.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I'm curious to know if most Twitterers on this list use it via their phone. > Do desktop[/etc.] users use it as a substitute for Facebook/blogging, or is > it complementary to those experiences? > > I would use my own Twitter account a lot more if I were a mobile Internet > user, I feel - its functions otherwise overlap far too much with the other > social media I already use. This is largely why I microblog on Tumblr, > which > allows me to post multimedia, and keeps my feedback to a minimum. [ / web > 2.0 misanthrope ] > > I think of it as a microblog purely in the sense of if I come across an interesting link on the web, it goes on Twitter. Interesting stuff in my feed-reader goes to the linkblog. I go back and forth on what Twitter means to me personally - at times, it seems like group IM.. at other times more a microblog service that I'm subscribed to. It doesn't personally substitute blogging for me, but what it can do is distract me from blogging. When one has half-a-dozen pet projects and not enough time for even one, having interesting comments / links scroll by constantly can be really distracting. The mobile portion of Twitter honestly doesn't grab me that much - it's still very much a PC-centric experience. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Priyanka Sachar <priyan...@gmail.com>wrote: > I use it on the phone off and on but thru GPRS And not sms. > most of my usage is through the web and through a tool called twhirl. > +1 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Vinayak Hegde <vinay...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use it over the web mostly. Twittering kills blogging, hogs time and > is addictive. > +1 again. > Also extremely noisy nowadays :(. > Um, it's only noisy if you want it to be. I periodically try and cull my "following" lists and over time, I've come to realize 200 is around the number of folks I can follow without it becoming overwhelming. Your own "comfort" number may be something lower. > > On the plus side, it's a good way to get real-time answers from > friends and a good filtering mechanism to read interesting stuff on > the net. > Also true :) -- Balaji
