yes. i am on twitter.

Jun 18, 2007

The plan is; I shall reserve gapingvoid for cartoons and the longer, “substantive” posts. The day-to-day minutiae [including travel details when I’m on the road] and random links etc I shall move over to Twitter. Either click on the link at the bottom of the blue Twitter badge on my sidebar, or follow this link to my Twitter page. Thanks.
[SLAVE TO FASHION:] Yes, I’ve joined Facebook as well.

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vaspers the grate

17 years ago

Twitter is beyond blogging, it’s fast lane communication, a deeper channel, a link and insight archiver, micro-journaling.
Twitter is good for SEO.
Twitter forces us windbag bloggers to be brief, pithy, laser focused. To express a profound statement in 140 characters is good discipline for us all.
Micro content and mobile computing are the future. We must start now to get good at short communications and presencing stream promotions. It’s like marketing haiku: building credibility, growing a Follower community, ranting creatively, promoting your Twitter page in blog comments, etc.
Twitter trolls and spammers?
We got rid of them a while back. You missed the violence and explosions.
:^)
http://twitter.com/vaspers

James Spinks

17 years ago

The downside of Twitter is that there’s no comments or trackback equivalents for people you don’t already follow.

Thomas

17 years ago

I was wondering if you would jump on board.

Basti Hirsch

17 years ago

@ jaiku.com may help with that then.

shannon

17 years ago

re: 2008 twitter twit – Someone is grumpy today. Do you really think Cumbria is the answer though, its a bit harsh?

david brain

17 years ago

Cool. Can you cartoon on twitter?

shannon(swisner)

17 years ago

Since I moved here from SF 5 years ago, I think your prediction is a bit out-dated 🙂

Chris

17 years ago

Twitter seems to have a way of alienating a large part of a blog audience, the readers, (as opposed to the ‘participators’, who join in the conversation via comments or blogging).
Looking at some of your posts on twitter Hugh, especially the ‘discuss’ ones, I’d be interested in following the conversation. However, twitter seems to be such a limited format, it constrains real discussion and splinters the audience somewhat.
And sadly, I kind of miss the random stuff that disappears when a blogger discovers twitter. Calacanis and Scoble being prime examples of this.

shannon(swisner)

17 years ago

I think twitter is definitely more of a one-way communication. But I love the way I am getting random SMS messages, I hope my friends are enjoying mine as well..

CheekierMeSly

17 years ago

You made my day, Hugh. To quote Tom Robbins’ Switters from Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, your Twitter random link took “the cake, the pie, the whole damn patisserie”. I’m all … a’twitter!

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