Thing 21 - Twitter

Thank you Ron for the summary of Twitter. Your presentation was more thorough than the CommonCraft video and gave me more insight into microblogging.

All in all, I am not ready to use Twitter yet. Most of the tweets that I read seemed very mundane and too insignificant to dedicate much time to these updates. Twitter seems to remove all of the filters that eliminate useless information from my perception. There are just not enough hours in the day to give to these updates.

What I saw when I did my Twitter searches was the equivalent of an overload of reality television, too much of nothing worthwhile to me. The Google Reader that I have delivers updated headlines so it seems redundant to have Twitter updates of the news. Very little at work happens with such urgency that our current e-mail contact, my newly created wiki or phone calls don't address. I cannot abandon my love of privacy enough to use Twitter to post updates of my day-to-day activities. The only real opportunity that I see for using Twitter in the immediate future would be with my PLN but this is a new group who has yet to pursue Twitter as a primary means of communication. To date, my heart is not quite a Twitter with this Thing 21. It is good for me to know what it is and how it works but at this time I will be developing my use of some of the other 23 Things as a primary communicative tool.