Do you use Twitter?
I’ve heard that blogging breaks the barriers between Author and Audience. Well, Twitter breaks the barrier between blogger and commenter. It’s group instant messaging or microblogging for your phone or on the web. Whenever Stick’s dad asks me about a tech buzzword, I make an offline comparision and end with “Like one of those, but faster.” Slower offline Twitter would be, um, talking.
Twitter also has a lot of applications for a small business. But…
There’s been a lot of chat about good Twitterquette, my own take is that tweeting a blog post, mentioning your new site and promoting a story you like are all fine. But endless posts pointing to one site or misleading links (which is even easier with the use of TinyURL or a similar program to reduce the characters in a link) is spammy.
I’m sure there will be debate on Twitterspam like there’s debate on linkbaiting. What do you think?