Thanks for the post. This whole Twitter thread has certainly got me thinking on viewing Twitter as a tool for doing user research among a particular type of research participants, i.e. ones who are comfortable with SMS and IM either on the mobile or PC platform. I doubt if Twitter itself on its own can provide the kinds of deep data that you'll need. If that's the case, how would you use Twitter in conjunction with other types of qualitative research methods?
Here's another interesting post: a survey of 3,000 US-based users and their use of online communities. *The study concludes that Twitter serves niches:*"Although both Twitter and SecondLife have received enormous amounts of press coverage, and are used intensely by some people, they are dwarfed in membership by the major social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and even LinkedIn." http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2008/10/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html cheers, Lucilla Madamba LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/lucilla Twitter: sailorlass <http://twitter.com/sailorlass> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Cone Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Twitter is a fantastic tool for user research. It can be used to > advantage in many cases for both enabling and conducting user > research. > > Here's an interesting post: > http://dinamehta.com/blog/2008/02/01/twitter-for-ethnography/ > > I have begun using Twitter recently. Drop by sometime @ > http://www.twitter.com/conetrees :) > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34682 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
