I aplogise if I'm beating a dead horse into the ground by going over this, but I can't be the only one who can't see a single example of where using Twitter is more advantageous than any other more established and proven technology?
This rant is partly spurred on by this BBC news article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8204842.stm
That story links to this one, where a Twitter feed is used to update people on roadworks on the M8: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8201326.stm
Now call me stupid but for the sole purpose of providing short status updates on roadworks, wouldn't an RSS feed on the website of the Scottish government department responsible for the road be more appropriate and professional? It seems that RSS was almost built for this, yet for some reason putting it on a 3rd-party website which limits the length of updates to 140 characters was deemed more useful.
Where it's necessary to allow people to respond to updates then surely a blog format with threaded comments achieves this better than the Twitter method of just throwing replies in chronological order. Not to mention the ability to write a longer article.
Has anyone here done any work promoting with Twitter and is in a position to explain why it's better, or is what we're seeing now just a lot of people who know just enough about computers to be dangerous jumping on the bandwagon - "i want this on that twitter thing" and either not knowing about any more suitable alternatives or simply ignoring them?
This rant is partly spurred on by this BBC news article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8204842.stm
That story links to this one, where a Twitter feed is used to update people on roadworks on the M8: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8201326.stm
Now call me stupid but for the sole purpose of providing short status updates on roadworks, wouldn't an RSS feed on the website of the Scottish government department responsible for the road be more appropriate and professional? It seems that RSS was almost built for this, yet for some reason putting it on a 3rd-party website which limits the length of updates to 140 characters was deemed more useful.
Where it's necessary to allow people to respond to updates then surely a blog format with threaded comments achieves this better than the Twitter method of just throwing replies in chronological order. Not to mention the ability to write a longer article.
Has anyone here done any work promoting with Twitter and is in a position to explain why it's better, or is what we're seeing now just a lot of people who know just enough about computers to be dangerous jumping on the bandwagon - "i want this on that twitter thing" and either not knowing about any more suitable alternatives or simply ignoring them?