Twitter as a speedier notification service and RSS supplement

Published: October 15, 2007, 2:17 pm

Kudos to Marshall Kirkpatrick for laying out how he uses Twitter — and no, it’s not for nonsense messages — with his excellent post: Twitter is paying my rent: Earlier this week I was remarking (on Twitter) about how many of my recent story leads came from Twitter. I counted and at that time 5 of my last 11 stories were based on news I learned first from my friends on Twitter. It was amazing. I’ve been down on the usefulness of Twitter since it’s launch, but a lightbulb glowed yesterday when Marshall described his real world Twitter usage. A good example of why it’s so important for bloggers to share their customer/user experiences rather than providing only vanilla descriptions. Your individual experiences are vastly more useful to me as a reader than a spec sheet. Fellow blogger readers, please remember this the next time you write about the newest, greatest site/service/product. Admittedly, I haven’t understood how Twitter was that

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