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Sep 12, 2008 1:53 am		Are you a self-centered Twitter?
Lukeither Willingham,MBA		Hello Aldon and thanks for reading the article on my blog and sharing your insight as well as the benefits you've received as a Twitter. > Aldon Hynes wrote: > > Twitter is the ultimate in self-centeredness. > >Gee, I always thought that Blogging was the ultimate self-centeredness. > >Seriously, I don't mean to belittle the entry, but I think the post as well as the Pros and Cons are pretty far off based and miss many important aspects of Twitter. > >Perhaps first, we should look at reasons people Twitter. There are many aspects to this. Are you a listener on Twitter? Many people I know use Twitter primarily as a news source. News often breaks on Twitter before it does on the blogs or the mainstream media channels. If you want to know what is going on, it is useful to listen closely to Twitter. > >With regards to conferences, Twitter is very valuable. How often have you been at a conference when some 'expert' is speaking, and you know that the people around you know more than he does? Wouldn't it be nice to get their opinions instead of listening to the speaker drone on? It used to be that people used IRC, IM or other tools to have these backchannel discussions. Now, they can take place on Twitter and you can gain valuable insights you would miss if you were docilely sitting there listening. > >I believe that one of the great powers of social media, whether we talk about Twitter or blogs, is the ability to open things up for a conversation. > >Beyond that, do you have something important to say? If not, why are you blogging? If so, why wouldn't you want to use Twitter to expand the discussion? I use TwitterFeed to update my twitter messages. Twitterfeed reads the RSS feed from my blog and creates Tweats with the title and a link to my blog post. It drives more traffic to my site. Which bloggers here do not want more traffic? > >In addition, I use it to stay in touch with my readers, to find out what they are thinking, to ask them questions, and to just keep a sense of community alive between blog posts. > >No, I think both the Pros and the Cons mentioned in the blog post significantly miss what Twitter is all about. > >Aldon >http://www.orient-lodge.com >http://twitter.com/ahynes1 >>See complete article at: http://allthangsdigital.wordpress.com >> Private Reply to Lukeither Willingham,MBA (new win)

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