Silent Twitterers
Recently, Twitter’s been getting some negative press – horrible retention rates this and slow growth rate that. I also read a blog post singling out Twitters inability to get it’s users to actually Tweet. However, if you’d look past the surface, there’s definitely more to this story than, shall I say, “meets the eye.”
I was the first one at work to sign up and begin using Twitter. Back in the day, ahem, six months ago, I was a huge advocate touting Twitters innovative and simple features. I’d tell everyone I knew to sign up, but few listened.
Out of the handful that hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, many sent out one tweet “checking out this Twitter thing” and that was that. The rest did something completely different.
The others began following people, but never joined the conversation. They leave TweetDeck open religiously, but never say a word. Weird? Yes. Wrong? No.
Twitter, like most things, is whatever you make of it. I don’t think there’s a wrong way to use the microblogging tool – other than spamming the shit out of it.
What type of Twitterer are you?
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