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What's the value and advantage of being "on" Twitter?
What's the benefit and value of being a member of this 'community'?
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Inappropriate?It enables and facilitates you to deliver status messages and brief thoughts (+ replies to other people's twitter thoughts) to a large group of people.
The two particular facets here are:
1) that the messages are delivered to people in the way most appropriate to them (some receive SMS, some check their RSS, some have clients). You don't have to worry whether sending everyone an email or an SMS is going to not be the way they like to receive updates
2) you can broadcast your updates to a group of people far wider than your usual circle of influence - this is particularly the case if you become notorious in somewhere, including through the messages you tweet. Over 1500 people receive each of my updates - I don't think I know 1500 people in real life. -
Inappropriate?Oh, and it's also an example of a product with a playful use case. There is no specific problem it solves, but it is a fun and engaging proposition (er, when it works).
If you're not the type of person who likes to experiment with new things, but instead uses new things only when they solve a particular problem (and nothing wrong with that - people are different) then maybe twitter isn't for you.
