Who do you think you are micro-blogging for?
On October 21st, 2008 Mark Wubben wrote:
I started using my Twitter account yesterday, after more than two years without any posts and, somewhat surprisingly, 42 followers. Instead of Twitter, I've been using Jaiku a lot. Now, my Jaiku stream is marked private, because when I post to Jaiku, I have a mental picture of who reads the posts. Namely, my Jaiku friends. Because I'm Jaikuing for them, and not the entire world, I keep the stream private.
For now, the Twitter stream is public. Twitter posts are cross-posted to Jaiku, though not the other way around. I hope I can keep the mental distinction between the Twitter stream reaching the entire world, and the Jaiku stream for my friends. (If not, Twitter, too, will become private.)
How do you use Twitter, Jaiku, or various other micro-blogging services? Who do you think you are micro-blogging for?
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Ton Zijlstra writes:
I have my postings on both Twitter and Jaiku shielded, visible for contacts only. I tend to regard Jaiku as a more defined/intimate circle of friends, where the group I converse with in Twitter is both more Dutch (all the marketing/branding social media types from the Netherlands are in there), as well as more American (no decent mobile experience for them). I use Jaiku on my phone, not Twitter. I find that to me the conversational model of Twitter is broken (reply tracking is difficult) where Jaiku caters to the casual banter and conversations, as well as more serious exchanges that make up the normal 'coffee machine' conversations of old.
October 21st, 2008 16:12Benjamin A. Wendelboe writes:
I'm mainly microblogging for myself.. Not sure how interesting all my posts are to everyone else.. Everything is accessible to anyone, and I'm sure I sometimes end up telling the whole world a few things I would have been better off keeping to myself, but those are the consequences of not wanting to worry..
October 21st, 2008 16:24Mads Kristensen writes:
I second Benjamin's response. I too blog for myself. As a mental log of what I was thinking. After all Twitter to me is the closest thing you get to standing on the top of a mounting and just scream your lungs out - without ever leaving the livingroom. I have also found that in times of crisis it provides comfort for your friends to let people know how you're dealing with stuff.
October 21st, 2008 17:11Soren Uggerholt writes:
I second too (Wendelboe and Kristensen) – and I don't keep any shields (I'm happy if anybody is listening at all) - I don't post very often, but sometimes I just 'scream my lungs out'?.
October 22nd, 2008 15:51But after all, I'm paying attention to that I don't publish anything that I won't like other people to find via e.g. Google.