Comments on: The absolute worst way to use Twitter

By: Sue Radd

Sue Radd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:46:17 +0000

I use Twitter wrong just to spite people who say I use Twitter wrong.
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(Yeah, yeah I know it’s missing the -ly)

By: Dana Theus

Dana Theus — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:50:06 +0000

I like this post. Social media and networking is as varied as social relations in the real world. Twitter is slightly more efficient than many networks due to the short message length so I suppose it’s more versatile for people to develop multiple uses for - and easier to form quick opinions about. As with all social nets, if you don’t find something useful, you don’t have to follow it. Just because someone has lots of followers they don’t follow back doesn’t make them “wrong” it makes them a “subscription broadcaster.” If they offer enough value to get followers, how can anyone say that’s wrong? Thanks for the thoughtful pushback.

By: Norm Lanier

Norm Lanier — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:23:31 +0000

Thanks for for reading and quoting my post on the wrong way to use Twitter. I think you will agree with me that Twitter is a social site by any definition. Twitter is an amazing tool for promotion but by simply linking an RSS feed to Twitter and having it post a meaningless blurb each time you add a new item to your Etsy shop benefits no one. I have used Twitter with great success to promote my Etsy Guides but I also contribute great content in 99% of my post. I don’t believe Twitter should be devoid of commercial intent any more than the internet should but sellers needs to offer more than a string of posts touting their latest items for sale. The mere fact that the word Etsy is used as often as the word sex on Twitter is a pretty compelling argument that people from Etsy have been using it the wrong way.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:57:00 +0000

I think Twitter is more of an interaction between real people rather than a bunch of ads. If I dont like all those so-called ads, I can just hit unfollow. In the end, they are the losers as watch how many others will also hit unfollow. They will be the ones that will be complaining about how social media doesn’t really work.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:10:10 +0000

The nice thing about Twitter is that it is easy to follow and UNfollow people at will. I follow people I find interesting, who I may wish to interact with. If they abuse the relationship by sending multiple ads every day, I can get them out of my timeline with a click of my mouse. Those people who view Twitter as a broadcast medium still don’t get social networking, and will find that Twitter is another tool that doesn’t work for them.

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By: Kirill

Kirill — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:15:06 +0000

My personal feeling that using twitter in a broadcasting mode under private twitter account is missuse, as I can get up-to-date corporate feeds via RSS. For me the power of tweets is in p2p contact with a news maker without intermediate, which is missed crunching the flow of trash-style news information.
Personal attitute to a subject of the post is the value for me, which is not the case when feed is just pushed to a twitter, hidding actual peer tweets in the stream.