Whitney Hess, UX Coach - Latest Comments in How Twitter has changed my life

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

sh3n3rd — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:21:26 -0000

Twitter has been a great experience for me so far..I think it's been a week now!! I haven't gotten a lot of direct replies to things but I'm just not as cool as you. LOL Seriously though it's like having a huge random conversation with 50 people, or maybe like thinking out loud? Like you, I tend to be very shy about introducing myself in public and maybe my digital life is bigger than my real one....ha ha But I have been reading and following so many fascinating and brilliant people. It's giving me hope that I can actually take some of the ideas that I have and bring them to fruition...especially as it pertains to escaping my corporate enslavement and making a career that is more dynamic and centers around what I have true passion for. Like I said, I wanna be Whitney when I grow up!!!

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

moon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:30:24 -0000

Twitter is many things to many people.

Blogging changed my life, but I blog within a niche and Twitter has a more diverse audience.

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Mark Drapeau — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:06:30 -0000

Twitter has completely changed my job description. I have gone from being "narrowly" focused on biology to moving into an entirely new research area, how Social Software can help Security (S3).

Twitter has also changed how I communicate with people and learn daily. I learned about Tim Russert passing away and many other things through Twitter. I've met lots of people. I've killed a lot of time.

Twitter is the kind of technology that needs to be shown and not told. I have gotten the stubbon hooked, and the really stubbon to understand through Blackberry demos and the like. You cannot put it into words well enough.

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Walt Ribeiro — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:11:09 -0000

Remember when you tweeted help about strumming guitar? Tell me you got those videos Whitney. tell me Twitter didn't fail to send 'em to you... ^_^

Twitter is great. i'm a big fan - awesome Blog Post!

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:36:23 -0000

Twitter hasn't just changed my life, it revolutionized my life.

Twitter has become a quint essential to my life because it keeps me connected with people I need to stay connected to.

When I describe Twitter, I call it a communication tool or platform. It really is a micro-blogging platform that has hyper-interaction built into it.

I love Twitter.

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Brian Christiansen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:38:34 -0000

Hey Whitney, so you are coming to UI13? As a volunteer? I look forward to meeting you there :-)

Till then, see you on the interwebs…
Brian @ UIE

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Alex de Carvalho — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:26:28 -0000

It would be impossible to count the many ways Twitter has impacted my life! It was a pleasure meeting you and I hope we'll see you more often in Miami ;) Im glad you enjoyed the tweetup. It was nice to have it in the middle of the long weekend, and Monty's is a fun and relaxed place. See you soon again!

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Martha — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:53:54 -0000

Well, I know absolutely not one friend one who twitters. It's likely a function of some things already mentioned..demographic, location, time constraints and of course, who the heck would I twitter with!

I agree it is a great tool, and can absolutely see the potential for mass use. I just have to wait for some critical mass adoption.

Super post. Thanks.

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Liz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:11 -0000

Twitter introduced me to a lot of wonderful, new people who live relatively close to me...and who love to sing!

Now I just have to get my off-line friends to create accounts but, like you say, it is hard to explain Twitter to people and why it is so great. I'm not as sure as you are whether it will take off outside of the Tech/Marketing/Business community because everyone I know says they are too busy (work + family) to keep up the pace of one social network, much less multiple socials networks unless it is part of their job.

It would be great if they did sign up to Twitter because I'm finding friends are emailing less and less because of work demands. They've grown disenchanted with email, IM and are even using their cellphones less for casual calls.

It might be a generational thing though. Most of my friends have kids and their activities fill almost all of their spare time.

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Ryan Evans — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:39:57 -0000

I wonder how much the success of your examples depends on the culture of twitter and the type of people using the tool. I could post similar questions/requests on Facebook, but probably wouldn't get such thoughtful responses. Maybe on LinkedIn...

On the other hand, you could argue that each of us has the opportunity to construct our own culture and group of contacts with any of these platforms.

- rhino88888888

Re: How Twitter has changed my life

Sheila Bocchine — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:20:17 -0000

WOW! That was a fantastic blog! It's so true! Between twitter, flickr and myspace I've been exposed to a whole new world of communication! It's pretty amazing!

I found this blog post via your tweet!