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It’s nothing more than a tool in my eyes and it’s now so obvious to to me to pick out people who “don’t get it” who unknowingly “spam” their products and services.

I love the tool and certainly am using it to gauge my success in building value in my community with others based on the feedback of my peers and followers.

Comparing blogging to Twitter is like comparing a big grapefruit (blogging) to a little lime(Twitter).

The blog is the cavalry, artillery, and main infanty – Twitter is the small infantry regiment that is swift of foot).

Twitter can be good at supporting your blog. But in fact it is proving to be so much more than that as well. It can, also, achieve similar things to blogging (but in different ways).

Jim’s first paragraph is pretty balanced but I wonder how many of the commenters took a minute to read the original post that was referenced?

Just a snippet:

“I’m merely pointing out that the medium has to be appropriate for the message. Using microblogging (like Yammer) to share your quarterly review or to fire someone or to make an important, nuanced announcement is just sort of dumb.”

“Using it for keeping in contact with an ever-widening circle of friends and colleagues is brilliant”

Whether Seth chooses to use Twitter should be a matter of how it helps him achieve his goals – but I don’t think it can be said from the original post that he is anti-Twitter.

A small change in approach can do wonders to the Twitter experience. Commit to using the words ‘you’ and ‘your’ twice as often as the words ‘I’ or ‘me’ in tweets. To do so, we need to listen and respond to what others are saying, which breeds involvement and interaction.