Twitter

Don’t Tweet Away Your Best Ideas

In a recent post, Jonathan Fields asked whether Twitter was the ultimate creation killer. It can be. One of the things I learned during the Oregon Trail Chronicles was that there were a surprising amount of things that I was doing that actually prevented me from doing the things that I was the best at. [...]

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Trust Agents, Ideaviruses, and the Retweet Misstep

The developers at Twitter rolled out a new retweeting feature in the last few days, and I’m not a big fan. A few people on Twitter asked me why I don’t like it, so I wanted to take a few minutes to explain why. By and large, I agree with most of what Lisa Barone [...]

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What’s the Point of Twitter?

What’s the point of Twitter? Who would spend time updating what they’re doing and what’s the point of doing it? Those were the first questions I asked myself when I looked into Twitter. I asked myself those questions because, honestly, that was what the marketers of Twitter used on their landing page. It’s a horrible [...]

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