Comments on: Now You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage

By: AF-Design » Having Fun With Twitter

AF-Design » Having Fun With Twitter — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:29:15 +0000

[...] other interesting tools include Twitter Stats, which received some coverage on TechCrunch in [...]

By: joe

joe — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:33:43 +0000

That is one lame example! Can no one do better to show real value in Twitter?

By: thinkfloyd

thinkfloyd — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:51:44 +0000

For those who think Twitter is a waste of time - think twice:

Twitter is truly becoming a business tool

By: Antje Wilsch

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:14:59 +0000

if you have to graph how often you’re using it, I’d say the answer is clear (i.e. too much)

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:51:03 +0000

I guess the real question is what benefit do I (or does anyone), get from graphing an individuals Twitter usage?

I’ve never graphed my email usage by time, I don’t feel a reall loss for not having done so.

By: David Risley

David Risley — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:48:18 +0000

Two words: Who cares?

I use Twitter somewhat, but graphing my usage has got to the the biggest waste of time I’ve ever heard of.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:32:59 +0000

*killer

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:31:51 +0000

This is garbage. Twitter solves no problem, nor is it a kiler app. It’s some bullshit some nerd thought up in his bedroom, and his nerdy friends (i.e. Arrington) push it on their blogs.

By: i still don't get it

i still don't get it — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:59:45 +0000

You like twitter because it reinforces the belief that you are important and that your every action is relevant. That’s all.

Just remember. Time spent twittering is time you could have actually spent living.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:52:51 +0000

33Paula: But what about when you reach a plateau, you have all the friends you can handle, the blogs you can read, and calamities you can cry for? OK, so they start injecting advertising after that in order to get the usage numbers up again. Then what?

I see lots of people posting links to their “musings” about Twitter, but nobody actually says anything about it. They use it, but I’m skeptical that there’s any content involved.

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:48:26 +0000

Great - a tool for people to feed their Twitter addictions! LOL.

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:29:23 +0000

I’m 40, and I use Twitter. Maybe I’m even a Twitterholic — at least that’s the way some of the posts make me, like I’m making an important public acknowledgment of some deficiency.

If people just used it for the basic “what are you doing?” report, it would be useless. But I’ve read many blogs and learned about many people that I wouldn’t know about otherwise; I’ve become closer to a whole group of acquaintances who I probably wouldn’t have got to know very well; learned about parties, causes, and calamities that I might not have heard about otherwise; and shared more of myself with others than I would be motivated to share through blogs (which for me have been primarily professional, not personal, vehicles of communication.)

By: Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Twitter Stats, gráficas sobre el uso de Twitter de cualquier usuario

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:59:37 +0000

[...] | TechCrunch Enlace | Twitter [...]

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Dave brings up the obvious - distribution

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:54:53 +0000

[...] can now control and/or least help monetize off of all these add-on tools like Twitterific or the latest stats thingie, while at the same time give away all the infrastructure, APIs and eco-system which has grown up [...]

By: Twitter Stats, gráficas sobre el uso de Twitter de cualquier usuario

Twitter Stats, gráficas sobre el uso de Twitter de cualquier usuario — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:48:51 +0000

[...] | TechCrunch Enlace | Twitter [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:48:34 +0000

this stuff is crap. Almost as lame as housing map craze.

By: i still don't get it

i still don't get it — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:42:32 +0000

KUDOS to Twitter for legitimizing the voyeuristic, stalker-y tendencies of some internet users (those who follow other twitter feeds) and simultaneously capitalizing on the narcissistic natures of others (those who twitter). But at the end of the day, it’s just people blogging sentences. Plain and simple. What is even worse, is that most of the time it’s stuff like, “I had coffee at Starbucks. The hippie girl at the counter had a nose ring”.

Um, okay.

But I guess if someone on TechCrunch tells ya it’s genius…then they must be right.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:57:12 +0000

The great thing about sites like Twitter; it shows that there is a place for products that have no use but aren’t useless. I am excited about twitter as much more than micro-blogging. I think this year people will use it for much more.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:38:03 +0000

What percentage of twitter users read techcrunch?

I’d be stunned if it’s below 75%

I have yet to find anyone outside of the digerati community that has even heard of twitter, let alone used it.

By: Alfred Saforo

Alfred Saforo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:24:42 +0000

Twitter has the potential to create a whole new way of creating and reading content online. I better jump on now before it goes super viral.

By: mmt

mmt — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:23:11 +0000

I still don’t get Twitter but I’m not a 20 something.

It is amazing how 10-12 companies seem to keep getting repeat coverage on TechCrunch. How do you guys choose the companies you decide to cover? Please take this as constructive feedback: I’m getting tired of reading about these same companies over, and over, and over.

By: joe

joe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:03:59 +0000

So the self-absorbed like to hear about the other self-absorbed and people trying to make a dime would love to have consumers care enough to want to get their tweets…. My god, anyone taking tweets of any kind from someone trying to make coin is a marketer’s wet dream…but a minority I surely hope!

By: FireflySEO

FireflySEO — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Interesting post, but it just reminds me why I took the time to write about why I think Twitter is a waste of time
Now we have stats to tell us how many people have actually bothered to read that I was brushing my teeth at 8am this morning.

By: wojai

wojai — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:50:34 +0000

Twitter’s gonna take off big time in 2008.

So will be Wojai, coming 2008 — to China.

By: Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948

Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:50:33 +0000

@joe : “Other than the masses of self-absorbed Gen Yers that actually think everyone cares about their every thought or activity, who uses twitter and for what redeeming purpose?”

Um, well, the masturbatory usage of Twitter by Gen Yers was indeed the first early usage of Twitter (catalogued ever so nicely on http://www.metacanary.com)

BUT, the usage has definitely shifted as there is a THRIVING community of marketers and communications professionals using Twitter as an actual communication tool (thanks in large part to the likes of Jeremiah Owyang)

Twitter adoption musings here: http://alisaleonard.blogspot.c.....re-is.html

Cheers