When I started out on it, I was a freelancer. It was a great way to chat about work and trivia to other people doing similar jobs, whether I had met them or not - a sort of online "water-cooler" I guess or a more visible IRC. In fact, I remember describing how to use it as "sign up, follow interesting people, talk to strangers".
But now it's much less about the conversations (I only really converse with the people I know in real-life, so it becomes a sort of public text-messaging). Instead, it's become a broadcast medium - communication is much more one-way and because of that, the number of retweets you get for your "pithy insight" becomes all the more important.
When I started out on it, I was a freelancer. It was a great way to chat about work and trivia to other people doing similar jobs, whether I had met them or not - a sort of online "water-cooler" I guess or a more visible IRC. In fact, I remember describing how to use it as "sign up, follow interesting people, talk to strangers".
But now it's much less about the conversations (I only really converse with the people I know in real-life, so it becomes a sort of public text-messaging). Instead, it's become a broadcast medium - communication is much more one-way and because of that, the number of retweets you get for your "pithy insight" becomes all the more important.