Comments on: Twitter: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Startup and Technology News Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Twitter tendencies among some to hound you ’til you submit | The Spicy Cauldron http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19527 Tue, 12 May 2009 08:14:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19527 [...] Twitter: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (techcrunchit.com) [...]

]]> By: Spam Followers « imnotbored.net http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19526 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:00:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19526 [...] Leena Rao says: “To all you Twitter fans out there, don’t despair.Along with the bad guys, there are many beacons of hope out there who are creating nifty Twitter-related applications.“ [...]

]]> By: Sean Hecking http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19525 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19525 There is a great deal of opportunity for businesses to reach a niche audience on Twitter. Twitter users tend to be early adopters and influential people. Companies have the opportunity to listen to what influential people are saying about their products and services, then act on feedback. Twitter is a tool just like any other technology. To get real business value out of the tool, it must be used with best practices in mind.

]]> By: Entering the Twittersphere « Storage Optimization http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19524 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:11:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19524 [...] has its pitfalls, as TechCrunch pointed out this week. But overall, we think it’s a good way to link up with those who are [...]

]]> By: nemrut http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19523 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:44:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19523 What i find ironic is the lack of initiative and mis-guided use of Twitter by it’s founders and even employees. They tend engage very little w/others on Twitter instead relying on the literal, irrelevant ‘What are you Doing’ broadcast approach.

I, for one, would like to see some ‘adult-supervision’ take over Twitter and help make it something truly meaningful vs poking around w/trivial incremental improvements.

]]> By: nemrut http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19522 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:37:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19522 ..that’s why you ‘reap what you sow.’ it’s all about quality not quantity. value is there, you just have to make the effort and be selective.

]]> By: Ellie Fields http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19521 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:35:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19521 I’ve definitely seen a lot more companies using twitter. My interests include skiing– 10 ski stores follow me in the hopes I’ll follow them. I’ve even seen the equivalent of pay-for-play tweets. A blogger writes a fawning story then tweets it, driving traffic to the post and the payer’s site.

I’ve had trouble seeing use from twitter too, but I do believe there’s some “there” there. Maybe not as much as is hyped. But twitter’s “there” will go away if the twittersphere becomes 140-character ad space.

]]> By: Sekhar Ravinutala http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19520 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:16:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19520 I’d keep the account, just in case you go back. And before you dismiss Twitter, check out http://search.twitter.com and see what goodies you can find.

]]> By: Carl Olson http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19519 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:44:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19519 Tried twitter. A colossal waste of time. There is way too much information flowing around. Tweets are basically stream of consciousness dribble. Little useful info, or you have to really wade through a lot of flotsam and jetsam. There, I’ve said it. It was a grueling waste of time. Feel liberated now that I deleted my account. You don’t have to follow the lemmings (pardon the really bad pun).

]]> By: Christian Burns http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/twitter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-19518 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:32:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=1447#comment-19518 The value of Twitter squating on a famous persons name of a company brand is null. Twitter will just give the squatter a new username and reassign the name to the celeb or brand when asked. Karl Rove got his name from a fake account after joining Twitter just a few months ago. It’s part of twitter’s terms of service.

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