Twitter, why?
One of the perks of running TFG.com myself, is that I get to see all sorts of fascinating information about who visits the site. Oh nothing incriminating like credit card numbers, street addresses, or porn viewing history. Its mostly just statistics about where people are from, how many views each post garners, and so forth.
The section, “Last Search Terms”, logs when people reach the site via a search engine. It also logs what their search criteria was. How people find there way here is incredibly intriguing, often also hilarious, strangely off topic, or confusing.
On May 10th someone found the site via a search for “token female gamer twitter”. The first thing to pop into my head was: Twitter? Really? But, but, but, why? People want to hear more from me?
/boggle
Frankly I’m amazed that anyone reads anything I write! (thank you all so much for reading!)
Since then I have been wondering what the hell I would even twitter about. In fact I wonder what most people have to twitter about, but then I am clearly not a twit (twittee?).
I imagine my pitiful attempts at tweeting would be something like this:
Just finished Uncharted 2. about an hour ago via iphone
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Final Fantasy IIIX not as I expected. about two hours ago via iphone
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Look another post, I posted. Really I did. about 14 hours ago via iphone
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Stimulating it is not. My clear lack of imagination in the twitter realm is surely enough reason to excuse myself from ever having to set virtual foot in that place. Then again, maybe I am missing the point.
What is the point of twitter?
May 13th, 2010 at 2:31 am
Yeah… I think that was me.
I recently went through my list of web comics, blogs, and other misc on my RSS reader (Google Reader I love you so) and tried to find the twitter accounts for all of those people. If a link to twitter wasn’t on the front page somewhere I looked around for some sneaky hidden ones. Found a few too that way.
I use twitter on 3 levels.
- Friends: Like with Facebook, I have friends on twitter and I like to see what they’re up to.
- Brand Following: I found out about Mutants & Mastermind’s 3rd edition a full 2 hours before it showed up in my RSS feed because I was following the designer.
- Acquiring Readers: At least that’s the plan. I had someone I’ve never heard of start following my site today but that came from a comment I made on their site rather than twitter.
May 13th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Three good reasons! I just don’t see how I could fit in yet another social networking site. I hardly even look at Face Book anymore, too busy. But hey I’m posting on my own website. =P
So clearly no twitter for me. =D
But I see how it can be very helpful for a bunch of PR people, celebrities, and corporations.
May 13th, 2010 at 10:31 am
“Just finished Uncharted 2. about an hour ago via iphone”
So you would lie to your Twitter followers? =)
May 13th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
OMG it was an example. EXAMPLE!!
I would really have said something like: Uncharted 2 finished. Thankfully the end was handled by someone much more skilled then me, thus I didn’t suffer the agony of dying repeatedly and then destroying my TV in frustration.
But then thats probably a bit long for twitter. =P
May 14th, 2010 at 2:39 am
Oh, also as a place to share items via google reader. It would be more effecient if I was friends with people on google reader but every item I ‘share’ goes off to twitter as well.
May 14th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
facebook is already barely useful what with its plethora of security problems and inane games. twitter is nice and simple. It kind of reminds me of when everyone had pagers/beepers except it’s online now.