Twitter is an internet service that catches my attention many things, my main surprise in this service lies in how versatile it can be, thanks to the simplicity of its use, small and large messages ability to exchange information directly and in real time with an audience (which in most cases) is adapted to our own profile of interests facitilando and find people that can nourish our involvement with a comment and / or relaying our message.
There are many more things and observation points, however I will focus only on the point just mentioned.
a couple of weeks ago, after exploring other aspects of Twitter , decided to go into one of the most complicated areas of the world consider Twitter is, direct coexistence with hundreds of people at once .
The sample is based on the list released ALT1040 about What s 100 Twitter users who write in English you should follow
more my personal contacts, giving a total of 116 people to giving up. This list was particularly convenient since most people who compose it fits my profile of interests, ie, there journalists, editors , people specializing in internet of different areas, geeks in droves and lovers blogs and Twitter , ie a public which would be easy to live.
For this test devoted full time to review every message posted to my new contacts, it was obviously a difficult and cumbersome, that is, on average reached 10 to 20 messages each 5 minutes, apparently not much, but if we consider the review of the links and the constant exchange of comments among users in time becomes the greatest enemy, that is, there are times it is simply impossible to know what it talking, first by the large number of simultaneous messages from different people, secondly because they do not have a direct relationship with other contacts about the information received run in all directions, ie at a time when we are talking about design, the other comics , seconds after Obama and later Twitts games, finance, policy and a thousand other things. Although, of course, I speak in the best because I am omitting the huge number of messages that do not lead anywhere and nobody cares more than your own user who issued it, ie Twitter becomes a tool not only distribution of information, not limited to use as conversación, también se muestra como una micro bitácora (de allí lo de microblogging o nanobloging ) o una herramienta autorreferente, como un sistema que no se nutre únicamente de la convivencia con los otros usuarios, sino que también se alimenta de la información del usuario para sí mismo, es decir, el sistema se alimenta a sí mismo a la vez que alimenta a sus partes.
Después de un par de días de convivencia con mis nuevos contactos me di cuenta de que comenzaban a llegar montones de seguidores nuevos, en principio eran los mismos que se habían agregado, es decir, muchas personas to which I gave up also gave it to me, but otherwise total strangers came, some spammers and others who were legitimate users I guess came from the blog or from some reference made to me, I had certainty that, though I realized long after the existence of other pages linking Twitter creating a whole range of possibilities to find people with specific profiles, blogs tools, content filtering services ( receivers to specify whether certain groups or interest groups), Twitter from the desktop or browser Internet advertising platform for business and much more, you can review a lot of these tools in list of 90 essential applications for Twitter Smashing Magazine.
The existence of services that complement the use of another service Twitter make something interesting to analyze, that is, they are creating tools that are not aimed at simplifying the use of Twitter , it is rather the creation of service tools that specialize in specific points to the amount necessary consequence Twitter possibilities offered in its natural form implicitly.
Returning to the original point, after starting to live with my fans Twiter community increased so I decided to stop my participation for the sample as not to unbalance sure to find interesting people who follow and that would further complicate the task.
Now the task was a spectator rather than participant, guess I got to make me see the potential of Twitter while the disadvantages and is unmasked problems of this tool.
- Twitts The more you generate more chances of having fallowers, but that does not mean you're a popular person in the network means that you are giving enough information to be indexed and can be suggested as a contact for specific audiences (read this as a consumer sectors), obviously this applies to people search tools. For other hand, if your posts are interesting not only reach people, but it really will read and comment on you, ultimately that's what really makes your popularity.
- plunge into Twitter (ie, become a follower of hundreds of people / services / businesses) has the great advantage that if you have a number of contacts always have fresh information, this is bad that many of the information may not interest you much, not to mention that most likely will have to discriminate so much information that will be difficult to separate the interests of you who do not.
If - The idea of \u200b\u200bsharing information, networking is as old as ARPANET (actually even older) has achieved Twitter enhance services like Digg , StumbleUpon, Newsvine , Delicious , among others, however this does not give the advantage to Twitter because it is missing a very simple thing: organization.
I will continue writing about this in the future, as I speak my mind to cut some heads because this experiment is over and with it ended also a lot of contacts that just do not come on my profile using Twitter (especially lovers of "going for coffee," I'm bored "," I hurt something, "" I do not know what to do, "etc.).
I welcome your comments and if they like to follow me on Twitter.
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