{"id":388,"date":"2009-06-20T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T04:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.partofthething.com\/thoughts\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-06-20T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T04:28:20","slug":"the-value-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/the-value-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"the value of twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I used to think twitter<\/a> was stupid. I imagined it as just a big collection of facebook status updates. Personally, I couldn’t care less about you going to the grocery store. But then I went to the ANS conference in Atlanta and realized what the big deal was. You can embed tags in your twitter posts, using the # symbol. For instance, at the ANS conference, if you say something and put #ans09 in it, everyone who searches #ans09 can see what everyone who said #ans09 has posted. So you go there and it’s like: “hey a group of us here at #ans09 are going to max’s down the street. come on by!” You try #fremontfair for the solstice parade happening in seattle tomorrow and it’s all “PCC RT @amyhale: Getting prepped to live-blog, tweet tomorrow’s #Seattle #Fremontfair<\/strong> the “Center of the Universe”! Watch 4 updates + audio too!” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another feature: you can do it all on SMS on your phone. So imagine a group of people going out. If they all set their phones to “follow” the same person, he or she can just say: “ok going to Brown Jug now.” Or “going to Bab’s now.”\u00a0 and everyone will get texts with that info. That’s actually new and useful communication right there.<\/p>\n

So sign up for it. Do some searches for stuff you’re interested in. Up-to-date collective knowledge is at hand.<\/p>\n

Actually the real reason I checked it out was all the buzz<\/a> about the Iranians using it to organize protests. Apprently the US state department asked twitter to delay a scheduled maintenance window so the Iranians wouldn’t be left in the dark. Cool.<\/p>\n

BTW, if you’re all interested in whether or not I’m at the grocery store, I’m partofthething on twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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