Twitter’s Secretary of State
January 18, 2008 //
We had a chat on Twitter about how it could be referred to as a ‘village’ recently. I agree, but only in the context that “Twitter is a small village within the social marketing world, embraced mainly by early adopting geeks”.
I have to say, I love Twitter as it’s a very easy way to meet new friends and strengthen current relationships.
If, like some of my offline friends, you don’t use Twitter, you’ll find my idea of using the medium for anything useful, hard to believe. You may even laugh as heartily as they did over dinner the other night. And to think they’re early adopters themselves. You really can’t form an educated opinion about this particular tool until you’ve managed to converse with people.
What does that say about us Twits? Are we cutting edge? Are we more open to the idea of creating and sustaining relationships online? Do we need to get a life?
If Twitter was a village, Shel Israel would nominate a few people to his neighborhood.
Connie Reece (conniereece on Twitter) Secretary of Health, for the work she has done building the Pea Foundation
Jeremiah Owyang (jowyang), secretary of community development, although I reserve the right to occasionally heckle him.
I (shelisrael) nominate me to be the Director of the Twitter Village Senior Center. I have seniority.
Scoble (scobleizer), of course, is the press secretary because of his hyperactive communications gene.KD Paine as director of weights and measures. This, of course, is a step down from her current position of Measurement Queen, but it could pay better.
Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid) is clearly our Illustrator in Chief.
Paul Walsh (paulwalsh). Secretary of State, For speaking out about doing evil in China and getting banned in one or two places.
Loic LeMeur (loiclmeur), Secretary of Tweesmic, a new bi-lingual post.
Very funny 
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Joe Scanlon says 
I kind of get twitter. I’m using it and enjoying it. BUT I don’t get why people use it to the extent that you do. I see a parallel to eary usenet and early forums, and wonder what should people be doing instead of making friendship using those mediums. I embrace the online world but twitter is too geeky for me, so I wonder how it can ever become a mainstream game, especially when up against (yes twitter is different but the mainstream won’t see the difference) facebook updates. Also, at some point you will have to realise that 4,700 updates in 10 months is a bit weird.
January 19th, 2008
I just subscribed via Google Reader on 109,465th try. I think it was personal. Their new slogan is: “Allow no Israel.”
January 19th, 2008
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