What is Twitter, and why use it?

In case you’ve been living on Mars, or if you’re a ‘normal’ person who doesn’t live and breathe social media, here’s a quick, simple and fun introduction to Twitter – one of our favourite web applications.

Twitter Movie

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

[Hat tip: Drew B, our pal from social media savvy PR dudes, Hotwire]

Tom wrote this on 24.03.08 – 7 comments
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7 responses

On March 24th, 2008 at 10:37 pm, Telmo Carlos responded:

Great presentation! I’ll show this to my sceptic friends. I’m sure it will help.
On March 24th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, Drew B responded:

Cheers Tom. I feel famous!
On March 25th, 2008 at 12:44 am, Louise responded:

Telmo – Just understood what you meant by septic! assumed it may be a portugese word… :)

I’ll pass this on too – my non-web friends have been very slow on the uptake. However, one of the biggest benefits for me has been the cool web related links and heads up that other twitterers in the webby sphere have mentioned. When I explain it to friends the first response i nearly always get for some reason is ‘I don’t want to know what sandwich you had for lunch!’

Also, love the animation – possible way to communicate interaction design to client teams..?
On March 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am, Jenni responded:

the thing is that although Twitter is very hard to describe or justify, once you start using it becomes indispensable… as this couple has demonstrated…
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/true-story-of-a.html
On March 25th, 2008 at 9:30 pm, Drew B responded:

Twitter is also a great forum for research, if you have the right kind of friends on there. More and more people are using it for quick polls, and I use it to recruit, source topics for stories, and hunt for PR stories. I wonder if they thought it would evolve past the “what are you doing” prompt when they launched it?
On March 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am, Clive responded:

Speaking as a ‘normal’ person:

Agreed. This could be just the thing to persuade friends to join in.

If the whole world has managed to become so quickly addicted to Facebook, surely it can’t be so hard to get them onto Twitter – something simpler, easier, more accessible and less irritating.

I’ve had fun with Twitter since I bumped into it through you lot – and I scribbled something yesterday to try and explain to by friends why they should give it a go.

http://1000thoughtsorless.blogspot.com/2008/03/blame-it-on-twitter.html

But this animation is loads better!
On March 26th, 2008 at 12:58 pm, Matthew Hill responded:

Even I, the apparent “Head of anti-technology and anti-progress division”, might try it out after seeing the animation and reading about it’s useful networking. Thanks Tom for the post.

What is Twitter, and why use it?

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