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Futon-Matt · 1 year ago

I'm way out of touch, this is the first I've even heard about twitter. (I gotta get out more) :)

Adam Ostrow · 1 year ago

Hey Andy - Where have you seen the number that Twitter has more than one million users? Just curious ...

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Adam - just an estimate based on the NYT's "nearly 1.2 million users visited Twitter.com in December"

Adam Ostrow · 1 year ago

Ah, missed that. It says "according to comScore" so I assume they are assuming to traffic, not actual registered users. I have a hard time believing Twitter has 1.2 million registered.

Wayne Sutton · 1 year ago

From my research and what I have heard from others, kids just send direct text messages to each other. They are not inclined to build an online "what I'm doing network" that doesn't include photos or video. Also kids are in love with myspace and facebook. Maybe twitter is to simple for them to use.

Internet Marketing Joy · 1 year ago

I agree with you Wayne..^^..I guess Twitter is less appealing to teens compared to Facebook and My Space because it lacks some features that you've mentioned..^^..For me, Twitter will only work best for bloggers and SEOs who want to get their stuff heard..^^

Marina Martin · 1 year ago

That NY Times piece really missed the ball in terms of what Twitter's all about.

Are there spammers and self-promoters? Sure. But no one follows them. Twitter is permission-based, and if you don't tweet content of value, I don't consume it.

Twitter is an amazing community and feedback tool. Need to know road conditions during a freak Seattle snowstorm? Tweet, and 10 people at various points on the route can respond that it's okay to proceed. Having trouble with something on your website? Tweet, and 17 people will give you feedback or tell you what's wrong with your HTML code.

A non-profit organization, The Frozen Pea Fund, even developed out of Twitter, raising well over $10,000 for breast cancer research in support of our fellow Twitterer Susan Reynolds, who has bravely and honestly been live-tweeting her experience with cancer from the day she discovered a lump in her breast.

There's nothing quite like Twitter out there as far as I'm concerned, and I was sad that it made such an awkward debut in the New York Times.

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Marina - I agree that Twitter is a powerful tool. The NYT piece wasn't Twitter's first mainstream media coverage, so I 'm not worried about misconceptions of its value. ;-)

Steven Bradley · 1 year ago

Andy I can't offer a feel for Twitter users outside of the people I follow and I tend to follow marketers. Every so often I look at the public timeline and I do see plenty of non marketing tweets passing by.

I'm surprised that Twitter isn't appealing to teens. I would think the 140 character limit and the ease of tweeting over mobile devices would make it popular for teens. Of course in order for it to be popular for teens you need to have a few teens tweeting already.

seomotion · 1 year ago

I don't have too much experience with Twitter yet as I just recently registered but I do however hope to learn more about it. I know a lot of bloggers are using the service and a lot of mainstream bloggers to boot. Should be interesting to see what comes from it.

Coyenator · 1 year ago

I use Twitter to keep up with colleagues and acquaintances who share what they are doing and links to what they are learning about. There are more ways and reasons to use Twitter all the time. This example is a good one. Depending on ones text messaging capacity - being able to Twitter ones whereabouts to a family group could be a useful tool especially if accessed via cell phone SMS. Seems like a smart and savvy Mom from my perspective - and a unique, creative and meaningful way to use the tech.

Germz · 1 year ago

Yes I believe so. Twitter seems very age friendly, I can tell as I'm a teen as well lol.

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