Comments on: Meet Shakespeare and his billion monkeys on Twitter

By: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:50:49 +0000

Brevity is the soul of wit.

By: Tweet Clouds: what are you twittering about?

Tweet Clouds: what are you twittering about? — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:35:33 +0000

[...] and hope you come back again! Twitter users can discuss the way you ought to Twitter for ages. Should you solely tell what you’re doing? Or is it better to post interesting links? Tip: if you’re trapped in a discussion like this, [...]

By: Arne Hulstein

Arne Hulstein — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:17:32 +0000

I am a happy twitter user posting regularly. I am now on 4K, which is nowhere near the 20K mentioned and I believe it will be a while before I am on it. However, for me it is about quality, not quantity. And quality is not defined by the length of the words used, or their difficulty, but quality is defined by the way in which it contributes to building your social network.

By: Monkey Man

Monkey Man — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:37:19 +0000

“The quality of mercy is not strned…” Oooh ooh ooh ooh!

[ Need more coffee - must find an ATM. ]

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:27:43 +0000

In movies even ordinary couples usually have great conversations. In real life however, conversation is more mundane. Sentences like “I’m tired”, “I finished my coffee” or “Are you cold too” make up 99% of our conversations. Twitter therefor sounds more like real life. We can’t all write and speak like Dostoyevsky but that doesn’t mean our conversations are boring or unnecessary.

So, keep those Tweets coming!

By: Marloes

Marloes — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:43:56 +0000

Guilty! but why not say “Its cold and grey but the city calls” to let followers know you are on your way to work? I rather read lines like that then the tweets of people who’s only aim is to get more traffic to their blog

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:28:22 +0000

I actually like to see short “finished first cup of coffee” lines every now and then (but not all the time of course). In that way you also get to know people better, and it’s fun to see what people are up to. It’s part of Twitter, sometimes it’s serious, sometimes it banal and sometimes it’s fun. A nice mix, that’s what it comes down to.

By: Doron

Doron — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:10:48 +0000

“finished first cup of coffee’ or ‘waiting in line for the ATM’. Isn’t that exactly what Twitter is all about?

By: Marina Martin

Marina Martin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:13:12 +0000

I’m at just about 7,500 updates right now on Twitter, but a lot of those tweets have actually *saved* me time and money (or even made me money, in terms of client referrals).

I’m an efficiency consultant, and now that I’ve built up a strong community on Twitter, my Google searches have gone way down. Why filter through the Internet myself when someone with more expertise on Topic X is on Twitter and can point me in the right direction in 140 characters or less?

Sure, there are inconsequential tweets, but I really enjoy a lot of the insight those random thoughts provide about a person. “I ate toast for breakfast” might be boring, but I can’t recall the last time I saw a tweet like that. Instead, people are listening to a new song I might like, headed to Capitol Hill for coffee (where I might join them – invited, of course!), or struggling with a problem that I might have the answer to.

By: Robert Gaal

Robert Gaal — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:50:09 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. I’m actually actively un-friending people who update too much useless info, or just disregard the 140 chars rule and use 8 tweets for 1 topic or something. That kind of works for me right now.

But Jaiku beats Twitter anyway, so…