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It seems we are being dragged into the "Twittersphere" by our collar these days:-.....and I kind of agree with the cynic in the cartoon - it seems there's a lot of noise on Twitter and not much signal. But if enough people use it, can it be ignored? If your competitors are all announcing their latest products and services on Twitter, where are you?
So it seems Twitter may become useful just by brute force of the numbers "Twittering".
My advice is to dip your toe in the water and try it out. Announce your latest blog entries in Twitter, your latest products etc and see what results. Just don't waste too much time on it.
I still don't like the medium much with the URL problem mentioned earlier, the fact that the Twitter search facility lists your deleted tweets (a major new bug I have discovered), and the character limit promotes "noisy" hyperbolic messages. Tech sites are hyping Twitter (which is kind of predictable as they tend to have a herd instinct), but that's the problem - the hype. Hype is meaningless without substance.
How much do you trust a "tweet" over a well composed forum post in a niche forum community you belong to? Forums allow you to engage in discussion in much more elaborate detail, and generally win the trust of fellow forum members. Despite the Twitter hype, forums are far more popular than Twitter as a means of communicating with like-minded people (just putting things into perspective).
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