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The Friday event date for BlogOrlando is something that I have debated for a while, and it probably won’t change.

One of the draws of Orlando is the theme parks. I have been able to use this to lure many of the key speakers and their families to the area, it’s the ‘Come on down, speak Friday and then hang out at the parks the rest of the weekend’ thing.

I know the highlight for many of the out-of-towners this past year was the trip to Kennedy Space Center.

Gee they just posted what they were going to tell you on Twitter here. What are you going to do next?

On the twitter rolls I’m looking at, the conversations aren’t that important to be twittered in the first place.

“All the cool kids are there” sounds like “if your friends asked to you jump off a cliff…”

Jump!!!

-Vlad

Twitter=IM for the ADD crowd

This may sound like a stupid question but i need to ask it anyway

Lets imagine all your friends and colleagues are on Facebook and use it on a regular basis….

what’s the difference between checking their status updates and following on Twitter?

Andy,

Absolutely nothing. I think you got it the other way around, people use twitter to update their Facebook status, and its static, as in, you can’t respond to their status without generating an email or facebook mail to them. The twitter process I suppose is a lot less heavy.

And I don’t think its very ADD, I get far less messages on twitter than on my little Mac thats used for community bs im’s only.

-Vlad

I didn’t get Twitter for a long time either, and therefore it’s easy to poo-poo it. Some people don’t get Flickr (who wants to see a picture of your cat)? But I get them both (and use them both) now.

Question - Would I blog, SMS or IM you that my coffee pot broke, or that I just booked a flight to Seattle? No. But if (and ‘IF’ being the key word here) you were sitting right beside me, would I tell you those same things? Probably so.

It’s the ‘if’ that makes the difference. I think Twitter is more personal. Stuff that isn’t necessarily blog-worthy. I try to be selective when blogging, and choose quality over quantity. But tweets are like single potato chips - tasty, but not filling. You don’t have to read past 12 paragraphs of dialog to get to the interesting part. You know in 1 or 2 sentences what’s going on. Very succinct.

Personally, I don’t do Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn. But I do like blogs, IM, del.icio.us and Twitter. That’s just me.

-Tim

[...] Vlad gets Twitter. And Susan doesn’t. Fine. Tomato / tomahto.  There’s nothing wrong with that not ‘getting’ Twitter. But typically speaking, people who don’t ‘get’ Twitter dismiss it as shallow or a website for the bored. So I’m going to help folks look at Twitter in a different light. [...]