And to make matters worse I have also been flirting at the same time with "ticckle" a 30 second maximum video debate site where again you have to "compress" or "reduce" your thoughts into bite size video clips.
Why would I do such a thing? what price my literary integrity? Well for reasons which will become clearer later on I was asked to become "platform friendly" and told that whilst accepting that blogs will always be the reserve of the deeply intentioned thought and/or perhaps rant, tw*tter and ticckle give voice and access to the masses whose normal intake of information is now all in bite size chunks!
So in order not to leave my blog out of the loop and also to help others now in and maybe in the future (yet to be born grandchildren?) catch up on my last 2 months cerebral concerns I post below my tw**ts and and also an address to access my ticckles!
God I feel so dirty!
nb (This is a one off update for my own need for completeness, but what for the future blog? tw**t? or ticckle? all, some or none? views, apart from the obvious "don't bother" appreciated.
ticckle contributions can be found here www.ticckle.com
You've got to understand Twitter to be successful using it Mr Clarke!
ReplyDeleteIts raison detre is all about 'engagement' and commenting on the here and now (not yesterday.)Its builds trust through consistency and relevance.
If you need to post your tweets on your blog pages you are certainly not getting it. You build followers by being an interesting tweeter not an advertiser of what you have tweeted.
I would also be careful of criticising a vehicle that receives 1 billion searches every day of the year!
TwitterHitter, forgive me, my concern is that we always seem to dumb down argument to the level of the "can't be arsed" rather than expressing an opinion in all its glory.
ReplyDeleteBut I know you are right, and I just need now to get with the project!
btw your response to me above was way more than 140 characters!
I enjoyed reading your blog Tony, it gave hope and an alternative way of thinking in a constructive and meaningful way. Its a shame you have been condensed into 140 characters for the quest of of being an acceptable platform face!
ReplyDeleteDumbed down! For the moment at least!! Hopefully your new pathway will lead to success in your venture and then you will be able to regress a little, to pastures recent.
Jimmies, worry not, I will still blog, it will be our little secret
ReplyDeleteNo, don't give up blogging Tony.
ReplyDeleteTwitter's all very well, and it's especially great for biting humour to attack whoever yr perceived enemy of the time may be - I've seen some hilarious tweets from the likes of @bristol_citizen and @wood5y for example - but after all's said and done (or even shouted and screamed in a lot of Twitterstorm users' cases) Twitter is really only old newspaper blowing in the wind and not any help, as you and many others suspect, for durable, worthwhile debate and thought.
But who needs that, eh?