I confess, I just don’t “get” Twitter. I checked it out when I was at CIL2009 a couple of weeks ago, as that was all that the presenters were talking about. Apparently #CIL2009 was a “trending topic”. One night after the sessions were done, I signed up for an account so that I could see what all of the fuss was about. I poked around and did some searches, but it really didn’t interest me.
I came across a video that sort of conveyed my thoughts on Twitter.
Poking through the readings, (great NYT article btw) I came across a link to an article in the LA Times. It closes with:
“So I guess Twitter, along with my dog, will remain part of my daily routine. The only daunting downside — as so often happens with new media: You only get back as much as you put in.”
That is something that I never really thought about. All of these social networking/media tools require some investment on my part to make them worthwhile. Maybe that is part of the reason that I have yet to get really interested in some of these tools – like Twitter…
