Comments on: Lay your Ruby Roses on another grave (the supposed “death” of Twitter)

By: Jonathan Conway

Jonathan Conway — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:51:49 +0000

Why is Twitter talked about as if it’s a replacement for, rather than a compliment of, existing media?

Tweets link to blogs. Personal websites link to Twitter accounts. Twitter links appear on business cards.

Twitter is a part of the system, not a system in itself.

By: Samuel Webster

Samuel Webster — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:36:07 +0000

Thanks for the Retweet, and posting the link. I’m glad you liked the article…

By: Samuel Webster

Samuel Webster — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:19:01 +0000

Thanks for the comment Sheila. It is interesting to pick an arbitrary connection with the medium as the trendsetter. Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross, John Mayer, Ashton Kutcher would be better choices if we were really to go down that path (not that I’m advocating that argument!)

However, I don’t have any issue with Ruby Rose as she is, I just don’t think (and I’d say she’s probably of the same mind) that she speaks for a technology purely by being one of the more high-profile Australian users. It is important that we don’t attack her just because she was used as ammunition in this piece; given that she probably didn’t know it was even published.

By: Samuel Webster

Samuel Webster — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:16:53 +0000

Thanks Congo, I’m glad you liked the article. You’re right about the possibilities of streamlining information straight from the industry to the user, on the user’s terms. It’s a wonderful potential.

By: Chris S. Cornell

Chris S. Cornell — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:56:59 +0000

Thank you. You have described the attitude skeptics have toward Twitter perfectly. Lately, it seems there is a long line of Twitter haters who want to be “the” writer who most accurately prognosticates the precise moment of Twitter’s demise.

Unfortunately, these people are writing about a subject they do not remotely understand because of their close-mindedness.

If the skeptics would read an article like this with an open mind, they might get some ideas about how Twitter works, and how they might actually put it to use in their own lives.

I am going to post a link to this article on my Twitter account, @Cornell140, and on my website http://TwitterProfessor.com. Over the past eight months I have been trying to build community in the Westchester, NY area through the use of Twitter and other forms of social media. Our group — “Westchester140″ (on Facebook) and listed on Twitter @Cornell140/Westchester140 — has already organized two very successful TweetUps and is in the process of organizing a third.

I would love to exchange ideas with other active Twitter users about how to best build community at the local level through social media.

Thanks again for a great article.

By: Sheila (@stinginthetail)

Sheila (@stinginthetail) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:53:41 +0000

I didn’t know who Ruby Rose was so i googled – ah, a celebrity. Gosh, I’d better stop using Twitter, a celebrity lesbian who can drink beer would know when the rest of us should stop.

Maybe she doesn’t understand not everyone is just skin-deep.

Oh – and i saw your post RT’d on Twitter

By: Congo

Congo — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Nicely done Sam.
It just goes to show that if your’e offline your not ‘online’.
There are so many other uses for twitter but the one that really stands out for me is access to insight. Insight from customers, thought leaders and entrepreneurs. I personally have benefited by accessing such insight from people like Jason Calacanis with his TWiST show. In fact I bet you can map a countries intelligence to how easy it is to access such information, like South Korea whose innovation has jumped since the country provided free access to everyone and where Twitter adoption is super high. The sad thing is I see Australian’s attitude to social media lacking and this may lead us to lose our perceived early adopter status.

Great post bud, you beat me to it,
http://www.twitter.com/Congo_

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