Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Another Internet Dot Com Bubble About To Burst?

Along came MySpace, Bebo & Facebook. Out of the three FaceBook became the most popular and has millions of users worldwide and it makes it's money from the adverts shown on the site that are taylor made to their advertisers requirements - i.e. if an advertiser wants their adverts to be viewed by males aged between 25 and 35 then FaceBook can facilitate that request.

BeBo and MySpace are still around but have developed in to a niche market whereas FaceBook is popular to the masses.

Then along came Twitter. It started with them wanting you to 'tweet' about every single thing you were doing. Lots of people joined but soon got fed up with the mundane tweets. Luckily they made a point of letting people know about how mundane and uninteresting their tweets were and things began to change.

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Twitter transformed in to haven for famous people tweeting about the interesting things they are getting up to and now it's more about following interesting people rather than tweeting about absolutely everything you do.

More recently the likes of FourSquare came along which I tried for a few months and just didn't get the point of the whole thing. I cant see what use it was to me or how they were going to make any money - at least twitter is now getting some money with advertisers being able to add a paid-for result to the words that are trending.

DailyBooth is another social networking site that has jumped on the Social Networking band-wagon and is basically twitter with photos instead of tweets.

Then there's the Social Network for business people to use, LinkedIn - this has recently floated on the stock markets for millions of dollars so how long before some others follow? It's only a matter of time and when they do, that's when the bubble will start to get bigger and bigger until finally it bursts.

Thursday, 20 May 2010

What Is The Point Of Twitter?


Ever since Twitter first began, I've never really understood the point of it all.  A few months ago I finally joined up to see what all the fuss was about and after entering a few 'tweets' I still couldn't work out what the point of it was.

I started to follow a friend of mine and soon knew when she was at work, when she was at home, if she was having dinner, getting a drink and a fair few other mundane pieces of information.

I just didn't get it.

I then started looking for some famous people to follow and that's when I started to realise what it's all about!

It's about following people that you find interesting and when you follow the right people you'll start to enjoy twitter and that's what I think it's all about!

I've even started following local business to me such as my local paper so I can see local headlines with a web link, if I want to read more I can click on the link else I just ignore it!

I've recently discovered the Lists function so I've now grouped together all the local people I'm following, people I actually know, famous people and funny people!

One of the people I'm following is @thekeithchegwin who tweets a lot of funny jokes and it made my day when I replied to one of his tweets saying I had just found him on Twitter and hadn't laughed so much in a long while and he sent me a reply!

I'm also following the lead singer of the band Twisted Sister @deesnider and he Re-Tweeted one of my comments and added to it!  In what other situation could I be chatting with a megastar like that?!

If you want to see the people I am currently following on Twitter then take a look at my lists here:

http://twitter.com/andrewfarren/lists

When it comes to Tweeting, I have decided not to Tweet about everything and anything but will mainly Tweet about the different day trips I go on along with the odd thing that I find interesting or relevant to me.

If you want to follow me on Twitter then take a look here:

http://twitter.com/andrewfarren