How Twitter Changed My Life
Posted: January 21st, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This is the twitter presentation I gave to the folks at NUSEA.
My intent was not so much to convince, but to share how creativity and imagination has injected so much life and variety into a technology I once thought frivolous. It took me nearly two months to figure the real value in twitter and how to use it effectively, and my aim was to bridge that gap for others, under an hour. As we all know, converts are the greatest evangelists.
Twitter will be destructive. I have witnessed it’s influence in citizen reporting, collective behaviour, and in shifting the power back to the consumer as corporations struggle to keep up. They are afraid of this new viral monster, and until they learn how to manage it they have no choice, but to finally hear consumers out (yay!). It’s long due, and it brings literal meaning to the customer is king.
And as far as I turn to Google for everything I need to know, I soon discovered the limitation in my results – they are all set in the past. Looking back at the recent crises, it appears that broadcast media typically break the news 15-30 minutes after it is first seen among the twitter chatter. Who considers what’s newsworthy anyway? We find value in news that affect us and the people we care about, and that comes through the tweets from our circle. It won’t be long before journalists begin monitoring what’s trending on twitter to report, and I sooner or later, I’m guessing Google will want a piece of the action too. Hello Twoogle!
(Edit) And now we have Google Buzz! Am really surprised at the traction this deck received, and it gave me a chance to present at one of the world mobile congress events in Barcelona! Don’t we all love the power of social media :)
Do you still have the UStream video from your presentation? Makes my life easier when convincing people to start Twittering. =)
Excellent deck by the way!
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January 30th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Wish we had, but unfortunately the stream wasn’t saved and everything was lost. The main ideas can still be found in the slide though :)
Thanks!
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valuable information, every first time tweeter should read this. Fortunately I surveyed the crowd for a little while before I dove in so I was already at step 5 of the 5 step process people usually go through. I can see though that several people are stuck at step 2 for their entire time on Twitter.
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I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.
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thans for the tip
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Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
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