Twitter On

I've surprised myself, but I'm diggin' Twitter. As far as Internet communication goes, I love the blog for it's ability to reach our customers/friends/colleagues; I'm not a big Facebook user (I find FB mostly useful as a repository for friends photos); and I lean to email over IM.

In a fit of myopia, I held out against Twitter for a year, but now I've been tweeting (yes, tweeting) for a couple months. I've come to the realization that Twitter is the social network I've been waiting for. Twitter's focus on pure communication elevates it above the colleague/friend/acquaintance/follower asymmetry problem in the Facebooks of the web. With Twitter I can listen to people who interest me-whether or not they are my "friend". I don't creep them out when I listen. Likewise, my Twitter followers are people who are interested in me and/or Altos whether or not I've ever met them.

I'll often publish market data nuggets on Twitter that are too finite for a blog post. I'll post info on new products to Twitter before it goes anywhere else. Why? It's easy, and the listeners have, by definition, said they want to know.

So in the interest of developing this communication channel, if you are interested in what I/Altos say/do/visit/publish, then follow me on Twitter.

Still asking, WTF is Twitter? See Tara Hunt's explanation