Yes, LP is now Twittering. I’m sure you’ve heard of it.
Heck you can’t avoid it now that it’s become the favourite plaything of the mainstream media. In fact it appears whole conferences are dedicated to Twitter – participants seemingly unable to talk about anything else.
As some of you may know I’ve been Tweeting my head off for a few years now, and jumping on and off the bandwagon. Now it’s become a part of the daily background hum.
I’m like a lot of web media workers for whom Twitter is now a work tool, but I also use it for a little bit of play, to inform and to annoy, to be annoyed and to be amused.
Lately it’s annoyed the crap out of me because the usual (and not so usual) social media suspects continue to overstate it’s importance. It’s not a replacement for anything, it’s an addition to something which already exists.
Tomorrow it may be fun again when sanity and perspective returns. Yes, the revolution will be Twittered but Twitter won’t be the trigger for revolution.
Anyway, like most technologies of change we eventually make our peace with it – mainly because it has an off switch and participation is voluntary.
My favourite use for Twitter? Search for breaking news and to capture the zeitgeist and as a back channel for important events. It’s made watching popular TV fun. Which by the way is where I think it’s real potential lies – integrated with TV as a live mass media watercooler.
For example, watching tonight’s Four Corners on the Liberal Party’s internal struggle with global warming and the CPRS while following the #4corners tag.
It’s also slowly replacing my RSS feed reader and the new lists feature is a great addition for new Twitter users looking to jump into the stream.
If you have a Twitter account you know what to do. If you don’t, we’re still here with the usual LP goodness.
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