Obvious asks - Why do you use Twitter?
Yesterday, I noticed that Twitter added a link for me to “share my story”. The team at obvious.com wanted to know who I was and why I use it.
I responded telling them that I was an Incognito Anthropologist interested in Twitter for four reasons:
1. Richmond has an incredibly smart, savvy, and downright friendly group of people when it comes to all things Internet. From our projects in citizen journalism to wi-fi initiatives to the general chatter on the blogs, we’re creating meaningful connections. Twitter serves to extend and enrich those connections.
2. Many local media outlets aren’t connecting with their audience in the way they used to - or rather, the local audience wants a different kind of connection. Adopting Twitter and using it to meet the needs of their audience (a crucial point that will be missed by many media companies) adds capital to the social connection that needs to exist between local media and the informed citizen. I’m interested in following media companies using Twitter to learn more about how they use the service.
3. My Twitter feed is much more entertaining than scanning the 5000+ new posts I get in Google Reader every day.
4. Twitter lets me directly connect, in 140 characters or less, with brilliant minds around the world and that’s a beautiful thing.
Stowe Boyd, eloquent as always, has his take on the survey here:
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/04/my-twitter-stor.html
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