Although initially sceptical about Twitter - and I remain so with respects to the pointless bandwagoning-without-thought approach that a number of brands and organisations cynically adopt - I've grown to appreciate it as an invaluable professional tool for sharing snippets of information and being able to point friends, colleagues and contacts towards interesting stuff on the web.
I’ll never warm to the lexicon that’s inevitably developed - and will continue to develop - around the platform (Twitterverse, etc), but I do like the fact that that these little chirps don’t need to form a conversation. A little like SHOUTING at the TV when there’s nobody else in the house.
Have I (@ianjamesdavies) been able to impart any gems to my “followers” on Twitter this week, then? I started off in positive mood on Monday - looking ahead to an Association of Online Publishers event I was due to attend later in the week, before pointing people towards the first interactive MPU I’ve bothered clicking since McCain’s seminal “roast your own potatoes” ad in 2007.
Later that day I had my first Twitter exchange with C21 Media’s Jon Webdale (@webdaley) over the BBC’s improvements to its PS3 iPlayer product, then on Tuesday I alerted the world to Google’s Monopoly City Streets launch and I will forever try to claim responsibility for the traffic that swamped its servers on the following day.
On Wednesday, feeling positive after the AOP event, I sent out a little post-seminar update, but then took a slight diversion into celebrity, telling the Twobe (somebody, somewhere has surely put Twitter and Globe together to produce such a horrid term) that I was watching Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes shooting a new series of Ashes to Ashes on the land surrounding Battersea Power Station.
Naturally, that little titbit was retweeted several times by total strangers and I’m still receiving replies - including this gem:
indierawk @ianjamesdavies seriously you saw keeley hawes and phillip glenister shooting A2A! I bet they looked the shiz!!
Ian
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