Twitter is an interesting concept to me. I understand the usefulness in some fashion. It certainly gives one a greater opportunity to be creative and mass communicate with many people at the same time. Its an interesting way to keep up on any particular person or company if they have a running twitter account.
My problem with twitter comes when trying to understand its usefulness long term. I have a hard time keeping a running track of what I am doing all the time. And when someone isn't posting all the time, then I am not sure of the usefulness of twitter. But who wants to hear every couple of hours all day. from someone else. Who would have the ability to keep up with it all the time. Its not like a blog where you can kind of peruse through topics to find something of interest that someone you like has wrote. You have a running commentary of lots of different things with no specific subject topics. Also, how does a company keep the interest of what is going on. Or as a librarian, outside of some things specifically of interest at the branch, would you be able to keep messaging every couple of hours to keep your avid readers interested? And as a reader I am not sure I want to know what's going on at any moment, all the time.
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I also can't seem to keep up with it very easily--especially with the tweets from the librarians we had to follow for the assignment. I feel like I don't have enough time to grasp what's trying to be said in such a short character limitation. I'm still trying to find where twitter fits, though. I'm thinking it's with organizations and not people. It's a mental work-in-progress for me :)
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