The Twitterati Experiment
Yesterday, I decided to give Twitter another try. I tried several months ago and never got into it, but I have “heard” that the conversations (aka “tweets”) are no longer just about “What are you doing?”, but have evolved for some Twitterati to conversations more about “What are you thinking?” or “What do you finding interesting?”. In fact, I think Hugh MacLeod’s tweet (aka gapingvoid) yesterday captured it best :
Just told a friend: “Don’t phone me, e-mail me or IM me. Just Twitter me. It’s the only media that I respond to now.”
As a result, I’ve decided to go back and see what nuggets of wisdom I can both share and glean from the Twitterati’s tweets. I’ll blog my thoughts periodically; but if you want to follow me on Twitter (it probably won’t be that interesting 
), my ID is RochelleGrayson.
March 29, 2008 @ 11:46 am
As I’ve repeatedly told Mr. G., I just don’t “get” Twitter. Oh, I do understand why it’s a catchy tool for teenagers who love to talk endlessly about mindless things but for grown-up business professionals, I just don’t get it.
For me it comes down to a thought-full expression of self, not just a rapid fire soundbite like IM-type conversation. We are not robots and shouldn’t pretend to be like them.
With that said, I do understand the curse of e-mail, especially lengthy e-mails but for serious conversation Twitter just doesn’t cut it … at least not for me.