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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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February 8th, 2008 Categories: 4realz, dustin luther, microblogging, re.net, twitter
I’m one to write diatribes. I have this internal claw that directs me to carefully articulate my topics by preemptively covering all angles (and potential rebuttals) as a reader takes the time to digest my left (or right) of center opinions.
This can get, mmmm, tedious at times. I don’t like tedious but I’ve been of the mindset that if someone is going to take the time to read my stuff, I should put out my best…thus the resulting diatribe-itus.
Two ‘things’…one is a service, the other is a person…have led me to see and blog otherwise.
Twitter is a service in and of itself that consists of a user entering 4-5 line max ‘thoughts’ or ‘What I’m doing’ blurbs that may not seem significant in singular, but when read across a time period, can really give you insight into how and/or who a person is. Initially, I thought Twitter was lame, now I find myself ‘Twittering’ on a few platforms.
The person is Dustin Luther and his site 4Realz.net. Dustin needs no introduction to those familiar with the re.net (a term coined by Greg Swann, another influencer in this) space, but in case you haven’t heard of or read about him (welcome out from under the rock) he is a pioneer in and for the social networking aspects of real estate. I thoroughly enjoy 4Realz (and Dustin) because it (he) practices what I call Microblogging, a few lines or paragraphs tipping hat to whats interesting to him, which I find interesting. I read 4Realz.net every day because I know it will take me <30 seconds and lead me somewhere interesting, either in my own head or else ware in the Web.
Both ‘things’ have influenced me to the point of practicing MicroBlogging…its a refreshing alternative to the diatribe :) I encourage other bloggers to practice Microblogging as well because it allows your audience to get to know you quicker. Real estate and mortgage transactions will always have a personal relationship factor to them, regardless of technology and resulting levels of disintermediation. Although I’ve only met Dustin 3 maybe 4 times, and we’ve only exchanged cursory level handshakes and well-wishy conversations, I feel like I know Dustin far better than our personal interactions would typically dictate.
All real estate and mortgage professionals could benefit from the simple dynamic Microblogging creates…a quick interesting conversation about relevant topics.
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