I've found Twitter to be a great way of building an audience and getting information from experts. I had to let myself break through the initial social barrier of following, replying, and tweeting towards people whom I've never met, but once I did, I've realized that Twitter gives me access to people who I would have never had access to otherwise.
Examples: I've had back and forth banter with some of Surfing's most prolific writers, which is important to me since I'm building surf travel company. I've gotten good ideas about Ruby/Rails development from following folks like Ryan Bates and Matt Aimonetti. And I've built an audience of surfers and developers that's still very small but growing such that when I have something important that I want people to know about, I'm 140 characters away from it. Don't get me wrong, lots and lots of things about Twitter suck. But in providing utility as a 'mouthpiece to the world' there's nothing better out there. --Jon www.twitter.com/broughten (shameless) On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Darren Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jonathan Christensen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> So far for me, the 'general do everything' nature of google wave doesn't >> compete with the specific utility of tools like Basecamp, Dropbox, Twitter, >> etc. >> >> > Wow! You find specific utility in Twitter? How? > > Darren > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
