{"id":158,"date":"2009-01-02T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-twitter-becomes-useful-tipping-point-where-is-it\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T18:33:38","slug":"the-twitter-becomes-useful-tipping-point-where-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-twitter-becomes-useful-tipping-point-where-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The &lsquo;Twitter Becomes Useful&lsquo; Tipping Point, Where Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll admit it upfront: I\u2019m a lousy <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rowanhanna\">Twitterer<\/a>. I try to give it a go every month or so by tweeting frequently, replying to other peoples tweets and generally participating, but then I usually drop off the face of the twitter-earth within a day or two &#8212; mostly because I find that it consumes too much time and is too great a distraction \u2013 with little or no reward (for me at least).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d give it up completely if it weren\u2019t for the fact that a lot of people seem to find it really useful \u2013 or maybe it\u2019s only the Silicon Valley types that find it useful and everyone else just finds it fun. But either way, it\u2019s getting a lot of attention.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the magic formula that makes it useful\/fun? Only follow people you know? Only follow a small number of people so that you don\u2019t get snowed under? Spend all day doing nothing but twittering?<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m looking for is the tipping point of Twitter \u2013 note that I\u2019m not talking in terms of when Twitter hits a critical mass of users and breaks out and becomes a raging world-wide success overnight \u2013 but rather what is the tipping point for when Twitter actually becomes <em>useful to you<\/em>. When you get the balance right \u2013 so that you\u2019re following the right number of people, have found a balance between getting work done and twittering \u2013 and find Twitter more useful than, you know, not useful.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Twitter becomes useful tipping point, where is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll admit it upfront: I\u2019m a lousy Twitterer. I try to give it a go every month or so by tweeting frequently, replying to other peoples tweets and generally participating, but then I usually drop off the face of the twitter-earth within a day or two &#8212; mostly because I find that it consumes too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[91,93,90,92],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-tipping-point","tag-tweet","tag-twitter","tag-twitterer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}