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From: "Josephine Gavignet" <josephinegavignet@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: Twitter is not for personal interactions
To: "Josephine Gavignet" <josephinegavignet@gmail.com>Twitter is not for personal interactions Ok so I have gone back to tweeting. It feels nice. Just by going on there and not really doing anything I have learned a lot by clicking on articles from the great entities I follow. Namely hubspot, mashable and what not. I have been getting some new followers which is nice, not all spammers even if they still represent a fair amount of my daily new "fans". What I have come to conclusion with is that well twitter is NOT for personal interactions. I am not saying it is not good for it, I am just saying that we don't want to see it here. Well now you can decide to stop reading this article, I won't mind, but something tells me you won't because if you clicked on this article it's because you're somewhat interested by what people have to say about twitter, or by things I write in general. So well here goes, I don't believe twitter is the place where you broadcast about what you ate at lunch or that your boss sucks. If your friends want to read about that on facebook ( and have not yet hidden you from their newsfeed) that's fine but us on Twitter who ended up on your profile because you once seemed worthy of our clicking on "follow", if and when we don't know you ( or your boss, if I did that would maybe interest me but only for reporting purposes) we honestly don't give a bee's sting of what you are doing.
My point here is that we all know what twitter is for. Maybe it was not Evan Williams' first and foremost thought when he created it but it is now. When I browse twitter, and it's the same for many if my counterparts, it is either because I want to read good and interesting things or for job purpose (which is ultimately good and interesting considering my job is web marketing) and we don't want twitter to become the place where you go if your friends are getting bored of your facebook status updates that are unreasonably frequent. I have to admit I've done this in the past and then you come to realize that you can always text it to the person you are really looking to get a reaction from. Or say just share it face to face. You should try. The problem with twitter is that we spent the last year or so not taking it seriously because nobody was using it. It was just the new fancy thing. But well now everybody at least knows it and chances are they are using it. For God's sake my parents know about it. So now twitter is becoming a valuable source of information and a much more professional tool. Because everybody can read about you when you use ashtags to share about your lunch experience. And that would be my final point: everybody can read about you. For the rest, keep a diary. And please not a blog.
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