Twitter Related Uses and Resources – A work in progress at Association Thoughts

Twitter Related Uses and Resources – A work in progress

Putting Twitter’s World to Use
Taken from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14twitter.html?_r=1&hp

Taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood.

“Twitter lets people know what’s going on about things they care about instantly, as it happens,” said Evan Williams, Twitter’s chief executive and co-founder. “In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.”

“Twitter reverses the notion of the group,” said Paul Saffo, the Silicon Valley futurist. “Instead of creating the group you want, you send it and the group self-assembles.”

Surgeons twittered throughout a recent operation to remove a brain tumor from a 47-year-old man
Taken from: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23hfhns

Let Them Eat Tweets
Taken from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19wwln-medium-t.html?emc=eta1

The implications of Sterling’s idea are painful for Twitter types. The connections that feel like wealth to many of us — call us the impoverished, we who treasure our smartphones and tally our Facebook friends — are in fact meager, more meager even than inflated dollars. What’s worse, these connections are liabilities that we pretend are assets. We live on the Web in these hideous conditions of overcrowding only because — it suddenly seems so obvious — we can’t afford privacy. And then, lest we confront our horror, we call this cramped ghetto our happy home!

Inside the Minds of Twitter Users
Taken from http://mashable.com/2009/04/22/twitter-attitudes

People use Twitter for all sorts of reasons. But what are those reasons, exactly? Is it about marketing, gathering intelligence, connecting, community? Is it for social reasons?

motivations chart