Making the rounds quickly on Twitter this weekend is Tweetwasters, a site that gives you an idea of how much time you’re really ‘wasting’ posting messages and status updates to the popular micro-sharing service. Users are calculating away and tweeting about it, ironically spending even more time on Twitter (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
There’s even a WordPress plugin that lets you show off your Twitter usage stats to your blog visitors, and if you try hard you might just make the Tweetwasters Hall Of Fame.
Tweetwasters estimates that a user spends about 30 seconds on creating a Tweet on average, which I think is a bit long. They multiply that by the number of Twitter messages you have produced and they provide you with the approximate number of seconds, minutes, hours or days of your life you have spent on Twitter. Of course, I assume most people spend more time reading tweets than writing them, so it’s probably way more than Tweetwasters will ever be able to tell you.
The service was obviously built for fun (by Sugarrae and ITCN), but there’s an application called Wakoopa that actually tracks your software usage continuously and provides you with a good overview of what you use the most (both for desktop and web applications) and tells you what other software you might find useful.
Is it just for fun, or they wanna build a business model.
Yammer has already done that
Jack
Yocial.com
I began using it under just a week ago, the value, so far, isn’t anything spectacular by a long shot business wise. I thought it was a waste of time and I am slowly finding-out that my gut instinct regarding Twitter was right.
I don’t really care what others are doing in their lives, mine is plenty full as it is so it’s just used to announce things to people who DO use Twitter.
Jon
http://buzvia.com – Where’s Your Traffic Going?
I use SMS ALL THE TIME, to talk to my girlfriend. I use SMS to keep in touch with friends.
I NEVER use Twitter. I never use Bulletins on Social networks.
How often do you have to announce something?
I can see a business having to announce something often, but how many times is an individual person going to have to announce something to X many people?
Think about how hard it is to key in a full SMS message on that tiny Querty keypad with your thumbs.(at least on G1)
Who the hell is doing all of this twittering and why?
I know I think it’s pretty useless. SMS == useful, twitter == useless.
You know who techcrunch should review?
techbargains.com
I found this website through the Android deals app, and it’s saved me at least $2000 so far. It has a coupon on there now to get an xbox 360 holiday bundle for 159 from dell, Nike Takos for $37 with free shipping from Nike, ect…
That’s actually a site that’s useful and that many people use. Also cover the Android bar code scanner app. You can use that in stores to do price comparisons in real time just by scanning the bar code with your G1.
You guys are so fixated on useless crap and Europeans. And Cancucks. Get off of it already.
Darn, you tricked me into taking a peek at techbargains.com. My eyes hurt now.
When you buy the $159 Xbox 360 holiday bundle from dell, you have to explicitly check a box that says that your *promise* not to export or ship the unit to said socialist countries.
I wasn’t kidding, they *literally* are not allowed to have our deals. They can’t stream our netflix movies either. Arrington should know he tried to make a Canadian netflix a few years ago.(no streaming right Mike)
I swear Chris, you are such a tool.
So far, I’ve wasted 0 time on twitter, ever. Hoping I can keep my streak alive, even though I read about the darn thing everywhere I turn. Having not used it yet, my feeling is that the LAST thing I need is yet another way to communicate with people, and another reason to spend more time online.
Tweetwaster rank was love.. sad.
Love Twitter though– as my group evolves from friends/colleagues to business connection from our energy blog. Energy tweets are on the rise…
Garry G
Editor, The Energy Roadmap com
1 second!
61,470 Seconds or 1,025 Minutes or 17.08 Hours or 0.71 Days using Twitter! i thought i tweet too much.
For those who don’t ‘get’ twitter, let Amir explain for you what it does:
http://www.jake...3051851/twitter
Chris, thanks for bringing up the site techbargains.com definently very useful for me. I dont want to go near tweetwaster. I dont even want to see how much time im wasting. Im sure some people are in the same boat as me on this topic.
Steve
grindvision.com
Fuck Twitter.
Why do I need to use *another* network when I can do the same thing with Facebook status updates? I mean what the fuck is with this Twitter lust that I almost exclusively get *only* from TC?
Seriously… twitter is a one shit wonder. It will die soon. Actually Six Apart should acquire it and shut the fucking thing down.
Fuck twitter? Great Contribution…
Twitter is not just another network. Even if it looks like an app that functions like the Facebook status – its not!
Tweet with the right people and you get great information and value from those outside your close social graph. No way that on Facebook you will connect to people easily outside your SG – or get value from them!
Thanks for explaining to me what Twitter does, apparently I have been living under a rock for the last year and a half since the Twitter fetish began.
I think technology bloggers are the only people who use twitter.
Think again.
For me, Twitter started out a fun chat format, then became a life and death tool when I furiously tweet-reported for 17 1/2 hours during the Mumbai crisis, and has developed into a great source of connections with other journalists.
Twitter is the ham radio of the 21st century. We will always have a need and desire for instant communications — Twitter provides that.
The first place I hit after turning on my computer is Twitter. And yes it has become addicting. Maybe someone should start a 12-Step Program for Tweeters, but in order for that to succeed you really have to want to quit. Well, none of us really want to quit.
You can also check exactly how much time do you spend on Twitter or anything else by http://www.timecamp.com
Nice little site… I’ve only got .07 hours under my belt.
Haven’t used it for a while…yet another time waster.
twit this! ba-da bing!
no seriously, i prefer facebook. i have a much larger audience there. why reinvent wheel with unstable service? please help me understand.
not as much as i waste on techcrunch…
So I’m the #1 Twitter user in America. That’s pretty amazing!
http://tinyurl.com/6zpy4p
There’s a guy in front of me that says “beverly hills” but all of this tweets are still in an Asian language so it’s hard to tell.
I also have nearly 12 days of twittering under my belt. http://tweetwas...com/adamjackson
I waste 0 time cause twitter sux
I used Twitter once – I decided to ‘follow’ an ex-TC writer – can’t remember his name, but he was often trashed on TC for writing useless articles. His twitter posts were terrible – often complaining about airports, lack of service, etc etc – just complaint after complaint.
Anyway, it made me wonder why anyone would feel the need to post info lie this all day and even more so, who would want to read it?
While I can understand and appreciate the value of twitter in scenarios such as tech news I really can’t see any value for the average person. If I want to know what my friends or family are up to minute by minute then I’ll go on holidays with them. Other time, I’d prefer not to know what they’re up to and wait for them to update me in person next we meet – like the good ol’ days!
The way I use twitter, and have seen it evolve, really is no longer about “what are you doing?” and much more about communicating quick thoughts, links, etc. The ability to find and follow like-minded people is a huge advantage over Facebook and linkedin in the networking side of things. I have met and follow many great people on twitter. people I would never have had as FB friends.
Twitter has become a ticker-tape of communication to me.
The best thing that can happen to Twitter is for it to quietly go away and never return.
The world we be better and my employee could get some work done.
nil to nil
I just spend 0.7hours since i had registered on twitter,so must i be happy or sad about this ?
twitter is really a wastage of time
http://www.liveindya.com
What a waste of time. Seems people in the US do not use twitter… they are so efficient!
twitter did 2 things for me.
it showed some people my site who are bloggers and it popped up on a few sites tracking tweets linking back to my site (SEO)
thats pretty much it until now
Interesting website .. Now let me see how much time do i waste on twitter
Is Twitter a Waste of time… What’s it cost to Twitter… not much…
COMPARATIVE COST FACTS
About 82% of web cost per click (cpc) advertising costs from $ 0.00 to $ 0.30 (cents cpc) and of that more than half is between $ 0.10 and $ 0.19 (cents cpc) Say you pay an average of $0.15 cpc 1200 clicks will cost you $180.00
“SEM firms typically bill monthly. They manage your PPC search advertising and paid-inclusion spend. For core professional services, which include complete SEO, expect to spend from $90,000 to $240,000 per Web site annually for a full-service SEM firm or $50,000 to $90,000 for a solo consultant or smaller SEM company.” clickz.com
Advertising budget?? Take autos as an example: Cost per click for “autos” is $0.29 – $0.64, Clicks per day is 9,800 – 12,400, Cost per day $2,830.00k – $7,980.00 spread between a reported 4 advertisers. spyfu.com
So that’s on average $10,810.00 per day / 4 = $2702.50 X 365 days = $ 986,412.50 p.a. / 12 = $82,201.04 p.month
I ask again considering the potential reach… is it worth it?
Ric lots more here: http://tr.im/kplb