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I don't know how many of you use Twitter, not that many I would guess. As with all these social networking trends there seem to be peaks and troughs as people start using things get bored and then maybe come back again. This is pretty much what happened with me.

For anyone wanting to get some decent stats on twitter usage in Europe there is an excellent blog here. The only problem is that it doesn't include UK figures. It doesn't take a planner to spot the trend. Twitter accounts continue to grow and grow as people become ever so slightly addicted to telling people in 140 characters or less what they are doing.

As always clients and normal people (sometimes these two groups are even known to overlap) ask 'why would anyone do this?' Well, using twitter is technically a doddle, quick to do, needs no maintenance and is above all fun and useful. It's just another thing some people do.

So instead of asking 'why?' a legitimate response is actually, ' why not?'

If you'd like to follow me on twitter be my guest. My twitter name is Koopstakov or you can get to my page here.

Published Jul 26 2007, 10:01 AM by James Cooper

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by Rory Sutherland
July 27, 2007 1:46 PM
 
This is a form of microjournalism. A way of publishing one's own personal Court Circular yet in a pleasantly unassuming way. Anyone who emailed their actions or thoughts to all their friends would risk ridicule: here there is no assumption that the Tweet will be read, and no suggestion that it is of particular importance. Yet at the same time it provides the reader with a marvellous real-time montage of their friends and what they are up to. The live, understated equivalent of those dreadful Christmas Round Robins, it is a genuinely new form of human interaction, and no mystery that it is growing. The resulting RSS feed, if merged in with other news feeds, also has gloriously comic effects: "Dow Jones plummets....... Car bomb explodes...... I am having a poo....."
 
 
by Rory Sutherland
July 27, 2007 1:48 PM
 
By the way, am now following James. And, since I still rue the day he left us, I shall send a job offer at the first sign of even trivial dissatifaction. Do the same to me at http://twitter.com/rorysutherland
 
 
by James Cooper
July 30, 2007 2:40 PM
 
Thanks Rory, most kind. If, when you say 'do the same to me' you mean offer you a job, then by all means, come and work for us here at dare, you'd like it.
 
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