ShareThis1 |
Stop regularly updating Twitter. |
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1) Impact on consulting income. Not clear how to measure. 2) Savings in time. 3) Perception of providing value. ... |
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Indefinitely. Actually this is an experiment in *stopping* an experiment - using Twitter - started in '07 (!) |
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Freeing up of time. No pressure to Tweet. Satisfaction in having dropped a time-consuming, low-value activity. |
Create an Experiment
Matthew Cornell
- Member Since
- 07/02/09
- About Lover of experimentation and leader of Think, Try, Learn, the scientific method for discovering happiness. Creator of Edison, the Think, Try, Learn experimenter's workbook. http://edison.thinktrylearn.com/ http://www.thinktrylearn.com/ http://www.matthewcornell.org/
- Web http://www.matthewcornell.org/
- Experiments 98
- Observations 1262
Comments & Observations
Matthew Cornell I've been doing this since 2009-08-10, and I'm quite happy with it. Actually, I'm monitoring about 5 people who I'd like to have a relationship with. Being honest, it's about helping an organization I'd like to help (Microsoft), which is itself an experiment. Overall, not missing Twitter an iota. :-)
Oct 02, 2009
Brock Tice I find it a worthwhile social medium, but I also get my twitter updates by email (delivered once per hour to avoid things dropping off the RSS feed), and I try to only ready my email once per day now. Cuts down on the overhead of twitter.
Oct 02, 2009
Dan Owen I forgot that when I broke my RSS fast for a day a week or so ago, I also caught up on your Twitter updates and on Ben Casnocha's delicious tags. It occurred to me that the Twitter content I value most from you is your linking to other content. Delicious is interesting -- I have "Research delicious" on a Someday/Maybe list -- because it embodies an aspect of social networking that is most valuable to me: the role that my friends play in "filtering" content for me. If Matt likes Margaret Wheatley -- whom I've never heard of -- I'm much more likely (say, 100% likely) to learn about her than if Amazon recommends it on the basis of a search or if AdSense directs me to one of her books. Given Twitter's shortcomings for you, have you considered pulling out the linking component and redirecting it to delicious?
Here's a link to Casnocha's delicious page. I find that roughly 1 out 10 of his favorites are items that I'm grateful he went to the trouble to find for me -- the other 9 range from "irrelevant" to "I'm happy to be spending my time looking at this."
http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/bencasnocha?count=15
Oct 11, 2009
Matthew Cornell > have you considered pulling out the linking component and redirecting it to delicious?
Good idea. No, I hadn't considered it. My focus is to share value in other ways - blog and newsletter, mostly because I am convinced that Twitter's value is too low to warrant the effort. Also, I feel like I share enough free value throug the other two. I'm still monitoring a few people on Twitter, but I think that is unlikely to pay off, i.e., to lead to valuable relationships. I wonder if I should add some more people to track for the purposes of creating relationships. [That goes into the ExperimentIdea file, and ultimately into DaVinci.]
> roughly 1 out 10
I think that's pretty good, given that the scan time is low. (Isn't that a benefit of the 140 limit?)
Thanks for the pointer to Casnocha. If the focus is a URL's content, I see the value of using Delicious.
Oct 15, 2009
Dan Owen Matt, a couple of days after my comment here, Casnocha posted on the same subject, with some interesting conclusions. Here's the link:
http://ben.casnocha.com/2009/10/the-evolving-uses-of-twitter.html
Oct 18, 2009
Matthew Cornell (Dan: I missed your latest comment, something I think v1.0 will fix. Sorry!) I don't see Ben saying he's dropping it, no?
Oct 29, 2009