Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Chris Boyd <paperghost () hotmail com>]

I like Twitter. Hated it at first, but it's pretty useful to me for a number of reasons.

1) I now know a bunch of security researchers from different companies by name and interact with them quite a bit, 
whereas previously I could only have pointed and said the company name, entirely oblivious of who worked there. I now 
follow a few more interesting security research blogs that I had no idea existed. That can only be a good thing.

2) I work in security, but have feet in both the arts / music camp (due to my past life as an arts & music guy) and the 
comic book industry camp via the reviews I used to do and having friends from University who draw a lot of titles for 
people like DC.

A while ago I found a comic book scam that was all about installing Adware; I'd have been somewhat embarrassed about 
approaching big hitters in the comic industry I know only from interacting with them on their websites and asking them 
directly to "spread the word". However, by sending out a simple "hey guys, anyone who does comics might want to warn 
people about this" it was picked up by a number of well known comics writers and comic related media publishers - 
something I couldn't have done just by putting a blog out.

It's the fact that I can cut across my "security guy" restraints and reach people from a whole diverse range of things 
I'm involved in with one short message, all at the same time, that makes it valuable to me. Of course, you still have 
to tailor your short message to be attractive enough to each camp which also takes some time to get the hang of.

3) Simply being on Twitter has allowed me to find a number of scams (some Twitter focused, some not) which wouldn't 
have happened if I wasn't using it. Even if points 1 & 2 didn't exist, that on its own is more than enough for me.

Pg


> From: pmm () igtc com
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:37:14 -0700
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Tweet This: I Don't Care
>
> It takes a while to get a feel for twitter.  Gadi made many good  
> points about what there is to like about twitter (gee, am I agreeing  
> with Gadi?  :)  Yes initially it feels like people only tweet about  
> the inane and the mundane.
>
> Looking through recent tweets of people I follow, I see reports on  
> SXSW (which I'm interested in), Lenovo's new pocket pc chingadera,  
> stuff on the bailout & AIG, & a place to test my web site against  
> every browser.  A lot of it is a tweet w/a link.  Yes, there's mundane  
> stuff too but it's easy to skip over.  There's a critical mass of  
> people you need to follow before you get over the "inane & mundane"  
> hump.  It helps to follow a diverse group of people, including  
> followees of your followees.
>
> My impression is that most people who pooh-pooh Twitter have either  
> never tried it or tried it for a very short time and gave up before  
> getting over the aforementioned "inane & mundane hump".
>
> The world's changing.  It's not Usenet, bang-path addresses, and  
> dialup BBS's any more and like it or not, we won't be going back  
> there.  Change with the times or be changed by them.
>
> - Paul -
>
>
>
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