Saturday, December 13, 2008

Twitter: I do not know

I keep coming back to Twitter. After less than a year using it, I am still wondering about it. It is just random no-sense; it is the broadcasting of trivial information; it is a place for quick conversations; it is a news center; it is becoming a PR tool for companies; and so on. It is many things and navigating all of them can be difficult. In my case, I am following more than 250 people: many news organizations and journalists; some people in Bogotá (MedellĂ­n and other parts of Colombia); some people in London connected to the Guardian (or it seems); entrepreneurs with interest in social network tools; and random people here and there who broadcast little pieces of their lives. In some cases, I reply to some of them and they reply back——in one case, we started a conversation and it suddenly came to a stop: this follower never replied back yet did not block me; we are still following each other but do not participate in conversations. I do not have a clue about what happened. In another case, I replied back and to this day we engaged in little conversations. I really do not know where Twitter is going (it does not matter) and do not know where I am going paying attention to it. I like how I get informed about things not just about news but about websites, recipes, ideas, ways of saying things, and so on. Yet I am not sure about it. I am not sure.

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