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		<title>Twittering: 99% ego, 1% useful</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw from one of Oli Barrett&#8217;s tweets that the delightful Bryony Gordon over at the Telegraph (always trusted upon to have a decent opinion) is seriously unimpressed with Twitter. Have a read of her perspective in the column she&#8217;s published on the Telegraph here: And if one more person sends me an email or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw from one of <a href="http://www.dailynetworker.co.uk">Oli Barrett&#8217;s</a> tweets that the delightful Bryony Gordon over at the Telegraph (always trusted upon to have a decent opinion) is seriously unimpressed with Twitter.</p>
<p>Have a read of her perspective in the column she&#8217;s published on the Telegraph <a href="http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/12/my_arse_with_twitter_help.html">here</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>And if one more person sends me an email or a text saying, &#8220;do you tweet?&#8221; I will stamp on my mobile and replace it with two tin cans attached to a piece of string. Do I tweet? How dare you ask me such a thing. No I bloody well don&#8217;t tweet. I am a human, not a Looney Tunes cartoon character with a lisp.</p></blockquote>
<p>Heh. Nice one.</p>
<p>After my pre-Christmas &#8216;<a href="http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/12/my_arse_with_twitter_help.html">MY ARSE WITH TWITTER</a>&#8216; post, I&#8217;ve been a lot happier with the service &#8212; now that I&#8217;ve reoriented by viewpoint.</p>
<p>The old <a href="http://twitter.com/mireview">MIReview</a> twitter account is now simply punting out updates to anyone who&#8217;s subscribed whenever we publish a new blog post.  This is a very useful feature for anyone that wants to keep updated.</p>
<p>And you can follow my very occasional updates at my personal account, <a href="http://twitter.com/ew4n">ew4n</a>. If you subscribe to me, I subscribe to you.</p>
<p>And if you send 100% bullshit through to my Twitter feed, I simply switch you off. That&#8217;s the dilemma I was having last month.  And if you have got something to tell me, make sure you email.  Or direct-message.</p>
<p>Alas, the vast majority of the stuff I see on Twitter is, as I put in the title, 99% ego and 1% useful.  But the 1% useful stuff is, sometimes, very very useful.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t really see that changing much.</p>
<p><strong>Update: </strong> Thanks to SashaKane to points out in her <a href="http://twitter.com/SashaKane/status/1106600547">Tweet</a> that:</p>
<blockquote><p>Famous business strategist says Twitter is 90% EGO- 9% stammer feed and 1% useful information..Ummm!</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure who that famous business strategist is yet <img src='http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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