Comments on: Twitter – A study

By: links for 2007-03-23 « Werner Ramaekers

links for 2007-03-23 « Werner Ramaekers — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:18:42 +0000

[...] Twitter – A study – Licence to Roam This is a tale of Twitter, about what it is, what it does, what people think about and what people have done with it. (tags: reference twitter study) [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:54:03 +0000

From reading a couple of reports, it seems that groups are definitely on the way, which will help you target who you receive from (I hope).

By: Julie Gomoll

Julie Gomoll — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:47:12 +0000

Thanks so much for this excellent study. I started using Twitter at SXSW, and it was really very handy for keeping up with who was going to which panel/party. Now that it’s over, I’m seriously wishing I could choose how to receive tweets on an individual basis. There are a *few* people I’d like to receive SMS updates from, but not many.

The SXSW Twitter explosion was interesting. They encouraged you to sign up for a Twitter SXSW group, which I did. They broadcast the tweets on plasma screens around the Austin Convention Center, which was cool. I wasn’t getting those tweets, though. Turned out you’d only get tweets from your friends, and from the 3 Twitter developers, who I suspect weren’t even receiving (if they were, they weren’t being responsive). This did me no good – I didn’t need 3am updates on their whereabouts. It got me using Twitter, which I suppose was the point, but it left me a little cranky with the developers.

By: ChuckM

ChuckM — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:17:24 +0000

Wow. It seems like as everyone is coming back from SXSW this is all they talk about. Thanks for consolidating all of this in one place.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:09:45 +0000

Thanks for the comments..I was trying to capture the essentials of what, where who so that I can use it to refer people to. Read the post and the links and then discuss it. It’s a good start, but reading it again realised I need to link to my previous post about it being the insta-gossip model.

By: Chris Casciano

Chris Casciano — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:04:53 +0000

Nice overview… certainly one of the most difficult thing about twitter is explaining it to skeptics — those who haven’t yet decided they hate it, but can’t see why they’d use it. I’m sure this post will be one I refer people to often,.

By: Blog Bloke

Blog Bloke — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:10 +0000

Online Post-its OR Twittering Your Life Away?

By: Tara Hunt

Tara Hunt — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:54:47 +0000

Hey Rach,

Wow…what an amazing, in-depth study of the phenomenon which is twitter! Thanks for this!