How Do I Find Twitter Value, not Tweet Exhaustion?

April 10, 2009Twitter

is currently

the

social, Web 2.0 craze (1382% yearly growth

). Certainly not every social craze isworth investigating, but Twitter seems to be one that provides considerable value or worth to its manyusers.Although a Twitter user since October 2007, it has just been the last year that I discovered Twitter Value

.Here are ﬁve things that I feel have contributed to this value discovery:•Finding the right Twitter client•Following and being followed•Watching a Tweet Cloud

•Watching a ﬁltered Tweet stream•Trying it, trying it, trying it ......

Finding a Twitter client

The Twitter browser interface is not the best way to experience Twitter or to ﬁnd Twitter Value. Once youbegin following your tweeps

, the tweet ﬂood starts and will appear to never end causing TweetExhaustion

. One way to manage this is to parse your tweets into a manageable grouping. The best wayto accomplish this functionality is to use a Twitter client like TweetDeck

which runs on a Mac or PC orNambu

which is Mac only and also has an iPhone client or Seesmic Desktop

which runs on a Mac orPC. Each one of these clients provides a way to display filtered tweets in a columnar fashion making itmuch easier to view the tweets.TweekDeck, Seesmic Desktop, and Nambu each provide the following functionality:• a userdefined filter by hash tags (#) or keywords which becomes a real-time filtered tweet-stream column until the user elects to remove• the abilityto create groups• a column for all @replies ormentions• a column for direct messagesAll but TweetDeck allow for multiple accounts. All but Seesmic have a Tweet Cloud.

http://www.twitter.com

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success/

Appreciating the Twitter and discovering its importance

Word Cloud of current global Twitter trends

Twitter people

Mental exhaustion caused by a tweet ﬂood

http://www.tweetdeck.com

http://www.nambu.com

http://desktop.seesmic.com/