This made us smile in the Delib office, so thought it worth sharing with you all. http://current.com/items/89891774/twouble_with_twitters.htm
It’s pretty negative about Twitter, but it actually raises some interesting points. What is the point of Twittering?
Sure, it’s become a reasonably popular communication method, especially amongst people working in the web, and the media love it as a hook for stories at the moment, but what is actually gained from it in 95% of cases? It’s that old point again isn’t it. Just because technology can do or can enable something, doesn’t mean there’s anything to be gained from it doing so.
Thing is, I suspect there are definite benefits in the consultation and democratic fields to be gained through using Twitter, hashtags are particularly interesting as a standard for content aggregation during realtime events. Character limits can have their inherent advantages too.
That said, do enough people care for it to have a genuine impact, or is it just a thing to use with a niche audience, possibly one already engaged through other processes anyway?
