Why most people don’t understand Twitter
Despite being well connected with a lot of my friends and colleagues online, only a handful of people I know use Twitter. Ask the others and I often get to hear “I just don’t get it!”. This got me thinking – I have never heard such a reply for any other website! Then what is it that people find so mysterious about Twitter?
The answer was right on Twitter’s homepage.
Check out Twitter.com. All I see is – “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world. Join the conversation. Sign up now”
There is not a single word on why and how you can start using Twitter. Anyone who comes to Twitter.com for the first time will most certainly have the following questions in mind –
- what is a tweet? How do I start twitter-ing?
- what does @someone mean?
- Why do people say “RT @someone” and what does it mean?
- Why do I need to “follow” someone and how is it different from adding a contact on a social network?
- What does a #tag do?
- What is twitter search and why is it useful to me? What exactly is a trending topic?
and none of them get answered. No wonder. In essence, Twitter needs it’s “missing manual”.
On the other part i believe that Twitter is not just for everyone.. how many of us have read the FAQ sections on Facebook or Orkut or any other social networking site before using it.. i have never read manual of our Mobile phones for that matter.. we just get a hang of it over a time..
On the other part i believe that Twitter is not just for everyone.. how many of us have read the FAQ sections on Facebook or Orkut or any other social networking site before using it.. i have never read manual of our Mobile phones for that matter.. we just get a hang of it over a time..
You’re right. Infact that was one of the major arguments “against” the blogpost, which I was considering while writing. Come to think of it – me and you never really read any manual or documentation and still use Twitter to it’s fullest. But what was your very first tweet like? How much time did you take to really get the “hang of it” ?
My post is basically talking about how this entire process can be fast-forwarded.
You’re right. Infact that was one of the major arguments “against” the blogpost, which I was considering while writing. Come to think of it – me and you never really read any manual or documentation and still use Twitter to it’s fullest. But what was your very first tweet like? How much time did you take to really get the “hang of it” ?
My post is basically talking about how this entire process can be fast-forwarded.
quite right… no wonder i am among the more “passive” users on twitter… tweet tweet
quite right… no wonder i am among the more “passive” users on twitter… tweet tweet
This surely answers why people don’t understand twitter, but this does not answer why people don’t use twitter.
Agree with Vidhi that its not for everyone.
Lots of people just don’t get the concept of updating everybody about every other thing they come across.
This surely answers why people don’t understand twitter, but this does not answer why people don’t use twitter.
Agree with Vidhi that its not for everyone.
Lots of people just don’t get the concept of updating everybody about every other thing they come across.
Although I don’t follow him, I know he’s the account with MAX followers as a celeb. Ashton Kuthcer (@aplusk).