Twitter Experiment – Day 1
So day was my first full day of twittering and it seems to be going well. Here are some stats:
People I am following: 22
People following me: 10
My updates: 11
Anyway, so I am not completely feeling it yet. I think this is for two reasons.
1) I am not sure how mundane I should go. There seems to be a number of people who use twitter to announce everything. From “Going to go to the bathroom” to “Just sneezed getting kleenex.” But there is another group of people who only post occasionally. The bulk of there message seem to be general comments or critiques as opposed to messages saying what they are doing. Of course, most of the twitterverse falls somewhere in the middle. I guess I just need to decide what type of twitterer I want to be.
2) The majority of my primary social network is not on Twitter. Therefore, I gain less benefits from this communication technology (see Rogers’s Diffusion of Innovations). Most of the people I am following are weak ties, such as a couple of people I went to grad school with at Ball State. Don’t get me wrong Twitter and most online social networks are good at strengthen weak ties, but I believe would feel a stronger tie to Twitter and gain alot more from Twitter if more of my strong ties were using the technology.