Posts Tagged ‘AoIR’

Thursday had an interesting session on Twitter - “Tweeting it out - critical examinations of Twitter across disciplines.”

There was a great discussion on the uses of Twitter, and how users will carefully select what they tweet on - and not least the wording. One of the respondents from the presenter’s survey, said that she wouldn’t tweet about anything that she wouldn’t want her mom, boss or boyfriend to read about. This is an interesting statement, as it show just how “narrative” we have become in our everyday lives. Also, we have begun thinking in ‘updates’ and ‘tweets’. Personally, I can help but think in updates and tweets, even when I’m not near a computer!

Twitter is still a social media on the rise. In a previous post, I cited Sysomos and their numbers on the use of Twitter and other social media. Their report states that:

• 85% of all Twitter users write less than one post a day
• 21% of users have never written a post in Twitter
• 5% of users account for 75% of all activity on Twitter
• 93,6% of users have less than 100 followers and 92,4% follow less than 100

The numbers are different from country to country. These numbers are the overall numbers from Twitter users, and is therefore not country specific. The numbers are interesting when compared to Matthew Allen’s presenation on “Online Connectivity” (thursday) in which he stated that 61.81% of internet users prefer to “take” from the internet, whereas only 39.19% prefer to “give” to the internet.

My personal use of Twitter is definitely on the rise. I guess you need to find your own personal use/purpose for these tools, and this may take a while. I strive to tweet my professional life on Twitter, and have as such chosen my public ‘profile’ - at least when it comes to Twitter. But, sometimes a more personal tweet makes its way into the stream of tweets, and I guess it’s just another mirror image of who I am - I’m a professional communicator who prefers having a semi-perosnal relationship with the people I’m engaged with professionally (hence the smiley)

And just for fun, I’ve added the following Dilbert strip (from 04/10/09), which addresses the alternative uses of Twitter…

Så kom jeg til Milwaukee - til tiden. Min bagage nåede dog ikke at komme med hele vejen, men den blev heldigvis leveret senere på aften. Hotellet ligger lige midt i byen, og værelset er skønt! Sover i en ordentlig flyder af en seng med at hav af puder i forskellige størrelser og i forskellige hårdhedsgrader - så man har nogle at vælge imellem. Og skulle man alligevel have valgt forkert og vågner med en stiv nakke, så er det ikke noget massagebruseren ikke kan klare

Har også næsten fået sovet ud, og har brugt dagen på at se lidt nærmere på Milwaukee. Det øser dog ned, så min sight-seeing har begrænset sig lidt, men brugte et par timer i Milwaukee Art Museum der lige nu har en Andy Warhol udstilling - den var fantastisk! Det var i det hele taget nogle ret flot udstillinger de havde, og i skal da ikke snydes for et par billeder derfra:

Billeder af museets arkitektur.

Et af mine yndlingsbilleder.

Close-up af en af deres mange flotte skulpturer.

En “infinity” installation.

Men som sagt så blev det ikke til meget mere i dag, jeg sparer kræfterne til turen går til Chicago i morgen. Der skal jeg nok får en masse at se (til)

Glæder mig!