After reading about it for a few weeks, I was moved to try Twitter the other day and by so doing entered the fascinating world of micro blogging. I have absolutely no idea whether it will be the next big thing or gone by the summer but I do know that if you watch Twittervision for more than a few minutes it can get scarily addictive!
If it does catch on and some forward thinking company or individual tries to get an Onrec / Ri5 / etc industry first announcement by being the first in the UK to put a recruitment ad on there....tough luck because I've already done it!
Matt
OK. I like reading this site. I like the commentary on the industry and I also like some of the new communication methods you guys seem to find out about before everyone, but what the hell is Twitter???? I found the Twittervision amusing yet slightly creepy for about a minute but I’m going to need more selling on this one Matt. What purpose could this serve?
Posted by: Jamie Leonard | 12/04/2007 at 08:53 PM
Jamie, to be perfectly honest I have no idea! A load of bloggers in the states are going mad for it so I thought I'd take a look. However every so often something seemingly useless breaks through into the mainstream, so you've got to try these things. I remember a few years ago someone saying exactly the same thing to me about text messages on mobile phones.........
Posted by: Matt | 12/04/2007 at 11:36 PM
Very true. As Alan Cohen said "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
Posted by: Jamie Leonad | 14/04/2007 at 09:50 PM
Can I ask a question - who has "possessed" Mr Jamie Leonard recently?
Keep it up chap - I'm enjoying this.
Twitter is a bizarre one - I too found it a little odd at first, but then strangely addictive - much to the detriment of the proposal I was working on at the time!!!
I think it's a case of be aware of it, watch it with interest, and then see how we can use it.
Posted by: Ben | 17/04/2007 at 10:27 AM
Bizarre.....
Posted by: Peter Gold | 04/05/2007 at 10:49 PM