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For Tweets, life is a open book

I have been tweeting for sometime now, having fun and have got followers too (God bless them, with some extra cheese toppings please)



It took me few minutes to get on top of Tweeting. The experience has been exhilarating.



But the challenge in this kind of communication is not in understanding how the platform works but in understanding the behavior. It is how we perceive and are perceived.



Tweeting took me few seconds to familiarize but it took me sometime to realize that people like to talk about themselves; like to share things they like, things that interests them, they like to show their creativity and things they are proud of, etc.



So hence if one tweet is about Obama the other could be about tribes in Brazil. Its pure chaos, uncontrolled, crazy and totally personal. And totally fun.



Yes, I guess that is what Twitter is. It is totally personal form of expression to the world. If blogs brought the thoughts a step closer to mass consumption, twitter improved upon it and made it real-time.



Twitter is a getting-there-ultimate idea-machine. The ideas coming from net are from vast sphere of possibilities. (And it is not a subject matter forum)



The sheer number of ideas that float around is amazing. It’s a great place to get ideas, if it happens. Looking of monitoring tweets for ideas, I guess, is a bad thing to do. But be open, it could strike any moment.



Being new to twitter, I am particularly let down by one thing: Twitter is a giant crowd sourced real-time non-categorized bookmark! It is like saying you like cars because you don't like to whip horses. Come on, is that it?! Horses are great but cars are cool too.



Twitter is in its infancy. There are many creative tools built in but there are million more out-there, like twitter search for example. It’s like having a reporter in every street and office building in the world. I still don’t understand why can’t I prioritize who I follow, or have a chat with somebody I know is online (in private) or store the messages in a cache for few hours, if not days so that I can go back to it (just like my Inbox).



Why is it on a single platform? Why is Google or Microsoft or other not replicating the platform? Because as far as I understand "Twitter" is just an Hotmail, there will be Yahoomail, Gmail and other zillion mails. Why does Twitter have this monopoly? Are the big guys working on something behind closed doors or just missing the bus? But there seems to be some activity by small folks. (and its not difficult to setup)



My guess is Twitter will lead to something that in my opinion is somewhat still out-there: a real time social feedback. Sharing the Twitter name would be as common as sharing email ids. Buzzing people would be an interesting thing. Real time "user" search and recommendation.



The strange part seems to be, there are so many conversations happening, people with very high cognitive abilities are likely to find it very interesting; he he think about it but seriously, the chances of striking up a unthinkable relationships are much more in Twitter than in Structured platforms and forums like Linkedin.



The follower and followed have no relation except a strand of interest, something the interest is just Twitter.



And coming to my cognitive ability statement, I think people who cannot associate or are not comfortable living in chaos and thriving in unstructured environment won’t find it interesting. Think accountants for example or lawyers or maybe even doctors (?) The "detail" people. They may think of it as a waste of time. But if people call following Guy Kawasaki, Richard Branson, Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, as waste of time, woe be onto them. On the other hand people who have shorter attention spans and more curiosity would be avid twitters. This seems to be true in the sample of people I have come across; I have met one lawyer, zero accountants, loads and loads of techies. Does that mean something? Probably yes.



Life is full of surprises with things like Twitter and the best part is we are just getting started :)



PS: Please keep it Adfree (else we will create a filter :))

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