Twitter: MicroBlogging Tool or Anti-Productivity Vice?
April 7th, 2008 Categories: microblogging, twitter
Twitter is fast and simple way to IM your thoughts and communicate with your own little micro-community of followers, often times called microblogging. I’ve got a little over 100 followers, which may seem like a lot until you look at Andy Kaufman (who got me started) and his 1320 *gasp* followers.
I own a BlackBerry, or as most of my friends call it, a CrackBerry. They will play this funny game with me and hide my BlackBerry until I get pissed off. It usually takes less than 5 mins before I start physically threatening people until they return it to me.
There is something about the little endorphin drip one gets from real time access to emails, text messaging, communication et al…Twitter takes it one step further by juicing up traditional text messaging to speak to a community of interested people, which creates conversations on the fly. I’ve got Twitter feeding to my CrackBerry, double trouble…
TweetStats will tell you how much time you waste spend ‘Twittering’, see the most popular @xxx replies (@housechick and @laniAR rule twitter convos in my world), as well as aggregate daily and hourly tweets (in other words what times of the day you are least productive/bored). You can also check out anyone elses TweetStats simply by punching in their username.
There are alot of people addicted to the Twitter drip. So, if you’re feeling guilty about how much time you spend twittering, you can make yourself feel better by checking out who’s really got a problem at TweetStats…
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I am a top anti-productivity vice. Sweet!
@housechick: Im so anti-productive, I wrote a post about it
What would you do if twitter broke? When it went down yesterday, everyone jumped back onto “the wall” on Facebook.