Twitter – personal or social?
In this study, Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter, Susan Herring and Courtenay Honeycutt, found that although Twitter is designed primarily to answer the question “What are you doing?” it is increasingly being used for interactions. The tweets with @sign are more interactive in nature, giving out information to others or asking others to do something. Whereas tweets without @sign are more self-focussed and report general announcements.
You may also want to check out Gaurav Mishra’s post on study on “how Twitter is being used to maintain friendships and build influence.”
Twitteratis, post your comments, if you think otherwise or have any other observations…
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Twitter has come way ahead of just “what r u doin?
It is a conversational tool, a chat mechanism, a place to meet new ppl with similar interest, a place to promote, social media hotspot and many things combined into one.
Going forward it will see groups and community interaction, News source. I am waiting to see twitter give its users, ways to monetize their network.
I think twitter has redefined the web 2.0 world. Its help users to send updates and stay connected with friends and peers. do u know any indian brand who have Twitter profile?
Its a box where you can insert something. It’s seems a bit fruitless to ascertain subjective elements beyond that – that’s where the simplicity lies – the tool, not the nails hammered by the tool. Everything else was emergent behaviour that has stuck, including @. On a different, but more interesting subject, I suggest reading Tara Hunt’s post about “ramps” for twitter, she’s lovely too. I don’t know where my other comment went … good luck with this.
Rashmi, Acer India, Amit: Thank you for leaving your comments on my blog.
Rashmi – that’s an interesting question – How Twitterers can monetize their network? I think businesses are already doing it and individuals are already deriving some benefit/value from it, if not directly making money through their networks.
Acer India – I do not know of any Indian brands using twitter, but would love to know if there are any.
Amit – sorry, i deleted the other comment by mistake and didn’t know how to retreive it. I would like to read Tara Hunt’s post. Could you point out the link for me? Thanks
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