Touch Me On The Twitter

		By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - News(From RSS) Published: Thursday, 27 September 07 - 12:21 PM (GMT) Last Updated: Thursday, 27 September 07 - 10:09 PM (GMT)

Twitter has become my pseudo RSS feed

OK let's set the scene. It is 1987 and I have been working for a few years in the Australian Videotex industry and had had a PC almost from the day they had been released in Australia (oh yes the wonderful TRS-80). I have never been without a PC nor outside of any form of communication with others. Whether it was through Viatel, bulletin boards, IRC right up to the last 10 years where IM has really taken off. I think I can safely say I know how to communicate on the internet, and can adapt to whatever the norm is for that type of communication.

But it is only recently I took up Twitter and developed my Twitter taste into what I like, and what I don't like, about it as a communication tool.

BAD!

Some people use Twitter strictly for spamming their affiliate links. How rude is that!? Sure it is easy, especially with the new tools that will tiny URL with your affiliate link intact, but that is just nasty dark grey hat in my book.
People do not Twitter enough. Don't tell me you are going to go get milk, then not post anything for 3 days. I get worried something has happened to you. At least post you are back ... or going on holidays...or something
Automated blog posting of Twitter back to the blog as main posts. I prefer a sidebar of old Twitters, so it doesn't break up the flow of the "good stuff" that you have put a lot of effort writing into.
Posting you are looking at something on the net and NOT including a link. That is anti-intuitive for the internet.

GOOD!

People who realize that having followers is having an obligation to produce quality content just like any other web outlet.
People who post the stuff they are looking at so you have the opportunity to "look over their shoulders". After all that is what all this social book marking is all about, finding things that interest you by leveraging on where others have been.
People that mix it up a bit and have a surprise package of things they are doing, things they are looking at, things they are reading, things they are listening to... the whole shebang.
People that post that they have just blogged with a link. Totally addictive and if I am following you you can bet I am looking at your link moments after it pops up.