Do You Tweet?
By Barry Ritholtz - August 18th, 2009, 7:15PM
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I just don’t see the appeal.
I was shocked when they were talking about Twitter on TNT during the PGA Championship coverage.
You know something like this has become mainstream when country club whiteys are getting in on the gig.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I never saw the point. We are already the MTV generation with a 30 second attention span, totally incapable of reasoned thought, and now apparently incapable of ready and digesting more than 144 characters.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Yes. Still as an experiment, but I see the value. I can use it to raise awareness about my business through forwarding relevant articles, announcing posting of articles that I’ve written (whether new or old one’s that are relevant), and brief comments that, to me, serve the same purpose as a longer article — to state my views and highlight my analysis.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:32 am
I use twitter to “tweet” my blog posts. It’s a way to make it easy for subscribers to keep linked to my site.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Also, it’s done automatically (it’s great to have tech friends tell you how to connect all this!) so I’m not trapped in the world of ‘tweeting’ for a.d.d. :)
August 19th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Yes, I tweet. Social media is not a fad. It is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.
Check out the amazing stats on social media in my blog post
August 19th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
The appeal lies in the fact that it’s much easier to write a 20 word Tweet than a 20 word blog post. The fact that you don’t actually need to engage in administration surely helps, too.
For those who lack the willingness, ability, or (in some cases) backing to engage in windy analysis of Stuff (a huge cohort, come to think of it), Twitter is perfect… at least until it crashes. It’s also great for people who want to be noticed outside the walled gardens of Facebook, LinkedIn, et al.
If instead you’re one of those people who makes their connections at events and over the telephone, it stands to reason that you believe Twitter to be useless. Just sayin’.