I do not Tweet.
Being a good Tweeter requires an enormous commitment of time, one I doubt I will ever be ready to make, even if I suddenly become a lot more interesting.
However, this is not to say that I dislike Twitter. In fact, I love the tool and use it every day, mostly via Flipboard.
Twitter as Learning Tool
Twitter is precisely as good as the people you follow. Follow interesting people who tweet interesting things you care about and you will get a lot out of it. Whether that is Jeremiah Owyang or Justin Bieber depends entirely on what you do with your spare time, I guess.
Below you can find some of the people I follow, in no particular order.
- Jeremiah Owyang
- Avinash Kaushik
- Eric Schmidt
- Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
- Frank Eliason
- Calvin Lee
- Pete Cashmore
- Cory Doctorow
- Julien Smith
- EMarketer
- Michael Arrington
- TechCrunch
- Andy Ihnatko
- David Pogue
- Robert Scoble
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeff Jarvis
- Brian Solis
- Kara Swisher
- Steffen Konrath
- Sam Goddard
- Ann Handley
- Vanessa Fox
- David Meerman Scott
- Louis Gray
- Todd Malicoat
- Jill Whalen
- Brett Tabke
- Geno Prussakov
- Lisa Barone
- Chris Tompkins
- Renee Aquino
- Paul Gillin
- Cube Strategies
- CC Chapman
and Neil deGrasse Tyson because he is awesome.
Here is who most people follow.
I do tweet, though only occasionally. I do so mostly because I want to reach some friends not on facebook. All my tweets are automatically posted to fb. Of the two social networking channels fb is the clear winner, IMO.
I do tweet, though only occasionally. I do so mostly because I want to reach some friends not on facebook. All my tweets are automatically posted to fb. Of the two social networking channels fb is the clear winner, IMO.