Comments on: Twitter Has Changed my Life

By: Susan Kitchens

Susan Kitchens — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:09:23 +0000

Thanks, Francine, for offering your perspective. It’s helpful.

By: francine hardaway

francine hardaway — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:20:39 +0000

It’s so much a question of what your goals are. Mine are, in order of importance: 1)Make new friends outside Arizona, especially in the Bay Area, so I can eventually move there, 2)Get emotional support since I live alone 3) Share some of the wisdom I’ve gathered over the years that my own children don’t need 4)Teach myself new things 5) See which of the startups I’m working with can use social media effectively for marketing.

You can see that for me, Twitter isn’t a time sink, but an important emotional and intellectual tool. For business, it’s only so-so. And when I am on deadlines, I ignore it completely.

But then, I’m disciplined from years of entrepreneurship to be self-motivated, from years of running to be self-disciplined, and from years of ADD to be able to multi-task.

I’m best with continuous partial attention, and almost incapable or focusing on only one thing at a time. My father used to tell me “you can’t dance at all the weddings,” which is an old middle Eastern saying. I have always tried, however.

By: Susan Kitchens

Susan Kitchens — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:56:43 +0000

I’ve watched the Twitter phenom blossom (esp since SXSW a year ago) and I’ve avoided it because of I’m scared of YAIBTS — Yet Another Internet-based Time Sink. Or how my alleged attention will become even more continuous and be broken into even smaller partial parts.

Given your experience (and your writing for the non-twitterers out there), I’d like to hear you weigh the upsides with (possible) downsides of distraction.

By: francine hardaway

francine hardaway — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:44:19 +0000

Thanks, Jennifer. I just keep meeting such good people on Twitter.

By: Janette Toral

Janette Toral — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:15:45 +0000

I agree with you! Twitter has also served as a means to discover great reads online. Like this post, one of the friends I follow shared this. Cheers to you!

By: Jennifer Sardam

Jennifer Sardam — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:38:28 +0000

I love this post! I too have always felt that sense of interconnectedness in the world, and I revel at reading other people’s joys, or doing a search to see who’s reading what I’m reading at the same time. It’s a quirky, interesting slice of society around the world. Some people don’t “get” it. But I think, when seen in this way, it can be fascinating. I even often learn about local events, because I added many people from around my city to those I “follow.” Plus, it’s a good way to point people to what I’m writing about on my blog.

Once I even posted that I was getting a new Dell and had to go buy Windows Vista 64-bit, and a Microsoft worker offered to sell me one for over 100 bucks less! So you never know where serendipity will strike. Ditto to that.

Have you heard of the mash-up Tweetspeak? I just discovered it yesterday, and you may find it interesting since you speak of commonalities of interest.

By: Clintus McGintus

Clintus McGintus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:21:01 +0000

Twitter is a piece of my life now. I get it on my phone so I’m never disconnected. I love it.