Inside Chris's Head » merlin mann http://chris2x.com One man's view of life in Silicon Valley from Chris Christensen - a podcaster, blogger, social media consultant Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:45:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitter is the new Digg http://chris2x.com/2008/03/03/twitter-is-the-new-digg/ http://chris2x.com/2008/03/03/twitter-is-the-new-digg/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:45:59 +0000 chris2x http://chris2x.com/2008/03/03/twitter-is-the-new-digg/

I have blogged about my experiences with Twitter before. I realized recently that these posts document my journey from a twitter skeptic to a twitter addict.

There are a number of different ways that people use the microblogging service that is Twitter.com and there is some contention about what is the “correct” way to use it. Merlin Mann (who made my list of favorite twitter posters in: My Favorite Quotes – Confessions of a Twitter Lurker) has argued that twitter is poetry. The 140 character updates that one is limited to in twitter are a form of haiku.

But I find more and more form me personally twitter is more like digg.com. It is a place where I learn interesting stories from interesting people. I notice that I gravitate to some of the people I follow who have an interesting story to tell me. I still use RSS feeds to track interesting blogs but I find that I only check my RSS reader every other day or so now, because I have already read the best stories via twitter.

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