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Twitter, Mainstream? What say you?

Posted by Jake in Misc on 10 Feb 2009 | 2 Comments

I was reading the paper at the weekend only to find a 2 page article on Twitter (the microbloggingsocialnetworkphenomenon). A couple of hours later I got a ‘new follower’ email from my brother.

Neither event were related, my brother later told me he had ‘discovered‘ Twitter after hearing about it on Radio 1.

I believe it does go to show Twitter is gaining more acceptance and becoming ‘like FaceBook’ – my brother is perfectly ‘technology aware’ but arguable has a lot better things to do than spend time on FaceBook/Twitter (he’s not in IT), he already has a large social group of friends and isn’t a big FaceBook user to boot.

Twitter Followers

With more and more UK celebrities joining Twitter it’s growth in the UK is soaring (those are a handful of people ‘following’ me in the above image), however I’m not sure everyone will see the value without some tweaks from Twitter.

What are your thoughts, and why did you join Twitter?

2 Comments

  1. I remember telling *you* about Twitter and then I joined because you did. I'm not sure what that says about me.

    Strawp / 10 Feb 2009 / 9:40 am

  2. @strawp - oh me either! I remember a lot of UK folks I know used it a lot more when there was SMS capabilities.

    Jake / 11 Feb 2009 / 8:26 am