Comments on: Musing about things I can do with Twitter that I couldn’t easily do before Twitter http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alexia Golez » Blog Archive » Red Links 31/12/07 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-281490 Alexia Golez » Blog Archive » Red Links 31/12/07 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:58:41 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-281490 [...] has been writing some of the best reflections on Twitter [...] [...] has been writing some of the best reflections on Twitter [...]

]]> By: Olivier Margerand http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-265791 Olivier Margerand Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:06:32 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-265791 There is a usage I love about Twitter: SMS e-mail list. It's quite simple. Imagine you're a guide in some museum. You've got a question and you're sure at least one of the other guides knows the answer. Now imagine you've got a Twitter account, your colleagues too. Let's say these are professional Twitter accounts, dedicated to your job. So are the other guides' Twitter accounts. Every guide (including yourself) has to subscribe to SMS alert for his professional Twitter account. Simply 'twitt' your questions. Other guides will receive it instantly as a SMS and will be able to answer so that: - you get the answer as quickly as possible. - other guides know instantly if it's worth adding some comment about the first answer. We've proposed this usage to one of our clients. Simple. Free. Efficient. How could he do this without Twitter?... There is a usage I love about Twitter: SMS e-mail list.

It’s quite simple. Imagine you’re a guide in some museum. You’ve got a question and you’re sure at least one of the other guides knows the answer.

Now imagine you’ve got a Twitter account, your colleagues too. Let’s say these are professional Twitter accounts, dedicated to your job. So are the other guides’ Twitter accounts. Every guide (including yourself) has to subscribe to SMS alert for his professional Twitter account.

Simply ‘twitt’ your questions. Other guides will receive it instantly as a SMS and will be able to answer so that:
- you get the answer as quickly as possible.
- other guides know instantly if it’s worth adding some comment about the first answer.

We’ve proposed this usage to one of our clients. Simple. Free. Efficient. How could he do this without Twitter?…

]]> By: Michael Specht http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250789 Michael Specht Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:18:20 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250789 You might find this post from Laurel Papworth interesting on the different ways of using Twitter http://silkcharm.blogspot.com/2007/12/three-things-about-twitter.html You might find this post from Laurel Papworth interesting on the different ways of using Twitter http://silkcharm.blogspot.com/2007/12/three-things-about-twitter.html

]]> By: Marina @ Sufficient Thrust http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250773 Marina @ Sufficient Thrust Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:03:27 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250773 Twitter is funny. I'm a HUGE fan of the service, but I wouldn't have expected to become one. I think the attraction is mainly in the type of people that gravitated towards Twitter. I also have a Pownce account, which is objectively a better service, but I never login to Pownce and I'm generally connected to Twitter three different ways at any given moment. I organize the Seattle Tweetups, I've entered into business partnerships of varying degrees with my Twitter followers, I've taken on followers as clients, I've had just about every question that's crossed my mind in the last few months answered faster and better than Google ever could, I've gotten lots of valuable real-time feedback on ideas/blog posts/site designs... my list could go on and on. As a self-employed consultant, Twitter has given me the water cooler atmosphere of an office and filled the only void I had in my work-at-home life. @MarinaMartin Twitter is funny. I’m a HUGE fan of the service, but I wouldn’t have expected to become one. I think the attraction is mainly in the type of people that gravitated towards Twitter. I also have a Pownce account, which is objectively a better service, but I never login to Pownce and I’m generally connected to Twitter three different ways at any given moment.

I organize the Seattle Tweetups, I’ve entered into business partnerships of varying degrees with my Twitter followers, I’ve taken on followers as clients, I’ve had just about every question that’s crossed my mind in the last few months answered faster and better than Google ever could, I’ve gotten lots of valuable real-time feedback on ideas/blog posts/site designs… my list could go on and on. As a self-employed consultant, Twitter has given me the water cooler atmosphere of an office and filled the only void I had in my work-at-home life.

@MarinaMartin

]]> By: Luke Razzell http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250729 Luke Razzell Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:49:56 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250729 JP, Yes, I should have mentioned that that ability to chose whether all or just manually chosen favourites are tweeted. Thanks, Luke JP,

Yes, I should have mentioned that that ability to chose whether all or just manually chosen favourites are tweeted.

Thanks,

Luke

]]> By: What are we doing when we Twitter? - - mathewingram.com/work http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250698 What are we doing when we Twitter? - - mathewingram.com/work Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:45:55 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250698 [...] whose blog I quite like, and he was talking about Twitter and what he gets out of it. You can read the full post, but in essence he says that he gets something different from the people he follows on Twitter than [...] [...] whose blog I quite like, and he was talking about Twitter and what he gets out of it. You can read the full post, but in essence he says that he gets something different from the people he follows on Twitter than [...]

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250665 JP Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:42:25 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250665 Luke, love the idea, with some refinement..... my hunch is that you need to find a way that allows me to "decide" when and what to tweet, rather than make it 100% automated. Luke, love the idea, with some refinement….. my hunch is that you need to find a way that allows me to “decide” when and what to tweet, rather than make it 100% automated.

]]> By: Luke Razzell http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250663 Luke Razzell Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:35:06 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250663 JP, Funny you should mention discovering great posts on Twitter: we are considering integrating Blog Friends with the Twitter API so that our users can have short urls to their favourite posts, along with a message perhaps, posted automatically on their Twitter account. Sound useful? Luke JP,

Funny you should mention discovering great posts on Twitter: we are considering integrating Blog Friends with the Twitter API so that our users can have short urls to their favourite posts, along with a message perhaps, posted automatically on their Twitter account. Sound useful?

Luke

]]> By: Tom Steinthal http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250622 Tom Steinthal Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:03:43 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250622 JP, You and a co-worker of mine at BSG Alliance both posted on Twitter within 2 days of each other. I put together <a href="http://steinthal.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/yatp-yet-another-twitter-post/" rel="nofollow">this</a> post as a result. Thanks, Tom JP,

You and a co-worker of mine at BSG Alliance both posted on Twitter within 2 days of each other. I put together this post as a result.

Thanks,
Tom

]]> By: YATP… Yet Another Twitter Post. « Tom Steinthal’s Financial Services IT Blog http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-250620 YATP… Yet Another Twitter Post. « Tom Steinthal’s Financial Services IT Blog Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:57:56 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/12/30/musing-about-things-i-can-do-with-twitter-that-i-couldnt-easily-do-before-twitter/#comment-250620 [...] the Twitter Maturity Curve to be twitdiction. Then this morning I saw JP’s post on Twitter - Musing about things I can do with Twitter that I couldn’t easily do before Twitter. JP tells the story of how he was pointed toward an interesting article in the New Yorker from a [...] [...] the Twitter Maturity Curve to be twitdiction. Then this morning I saw JP’s post on Twitter – Musing about things I can do with Twitter that I couldn’t easily do before Twitter. JP tells the story of how he was pointed toward an interesting article in the New Yorker from a [...]

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