Comments on: How Do You Explain Twitter To A Newbie?

By: NELLIE CHRISTINA

NELLIE CHRISTINA — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:58:57 +0000

I like to get to understand twitter,I like following certain well known stars etc.

By: dkkd

dkkd — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:06 +0000

try explaining it to a 70 year old that knows little about the web and computers. not easy.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:27:18 +0000

I’m subscribed to twitter but don’t quite get it ( I’m very computer literate but older… is that the problem?) Both texting and Twitter make me feel like a slave to the phone. I have this feeling that I don’t want or need info about the personal activities of everyone around me and then some.

If you are continuously paying attention to your phone/twitter/texting… how do you get real work done? When do you connect personally rather than randomly? Why do you want to talk with/connect to people you don’t know? Is that even safe? Are those around you annoyed when you check your phone every minute? It drives me nuts when my teenage daughter texts me instead of calling. Says it’s easier! Not for me… half the time the message is encrypted in text language and it takes forever to make any kind of plans. I’d rather have short talk on the phone. It’s kind of rude to check the phone all the time — when you are with someone you should be paying attention to that person rather than a personal electronic device…

I don’t seem to be able to get enough done each day anyway (and I don’t tweet or text!) — How can I justify typing everything out on that little bitty keypad? It takes a loads of time to keep checking phone texts & twitters.

So, do you twitterer’s spend any time without a phone? Inquiring minds want to know: How and when you get real work done with the constant interruption of tweets and texts? Do superiors at work allow texting/tweeting while you are at work? At one time most companies even frowned on personal phone calls… Tell me how you do it! Tell me why it’s good… Tell me how much of your time is consumed by your phone texting and tweeting… thank you tweeters

By: LisiSilveira

LisiSilveira — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:28:24 +0000

To start I always think of Twitter as a huge 24/7 party with people from all over the world… you feel a little bit lost in the beginning, say hi to all, interact, keep walking and talking with many people, then you start to focus on what you want, have fun, find people that has same kind of interest learn, call friends to join the party, it is a mix of DisneyWorld meets LasVegas, Hollywood/Bollywood meets Cannes and Cable News, Main Street meets Wall Street and BRIC**, Silicon Valley meets Politics, Sports meets Art and Spirituality and …much more
Back to the Party

** Brazil, Russia, India, China

By: Freya

Freya — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:35:29 +0000

Really liked your Tavern example. It makes it just so simple to understand.
Thanks 4 sharing

Cheers
Freya

By: Brad Shorr

Brad Shorr — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:51:11 +0000

Thanks one and all for the insights, descriptions, humor, and conversation. All these different images of Google have truth in them, which I guess indicates how versatile Twitter is.

By: Hector A. Henry S.

Hector A. Henry S. — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:23:01 +0000

That’s a good question, because I was in doze type of explanation and I face different kind of user, some that they just can’t understand me, other that take it right away, and some that no matter how much I explain it to them they don’t understand, it’s like print in to me because its incompressible.

But still it’s fun to have and bring new user to twitter, and ones you are there you are able to fallow doze that you would like from actor to news, from all around the world.

Thank you for the pots.

By: Jen Ruhman

Jen Ruhman — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:13:41 +0000

Thanks!
I make twitter backgrounds, and my friends always ask me what is twitter?
I always sound a little crazy when I’m trying to explain it… hehe.

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:32:36 +0000

What surprises me is, there’s all this talk on the internet about what Twitter is and how to explain it and so on, and it is in fact extremely simple. Yet everyone and their mother seems to find Facebook perfectly simple to use, and I–after more hours than I’d care to think about –remain utterly flummoxed by it. I really don’t get this discrepancy.

By: venkat

venkat — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:26:29 +0000

it s very difficult for me to explain twitter to a newbie ,because it has taken some time for me to understand twitter ,but once you understand what twitter is you are not going to leave it single day.