A Twitter Taxonomy
In which DLB takes a moment to extemporize on what you can expect from the Twitter service, and to provide a categorization schema for the users thereof.
I lurked on Twitter for a long time, trying to figure out how best I could use it in the service of DLB. What is it useful for as a "tweeter"? A follower?
As far as I can tell, there are two distinct values that Twitter can provide you as a follower, and unfortunately, they are mututally exclusive. You can either (1) follow everyone you ever encounter and grow yourself a massive reciprocity-driven follower-base, thus boosting your social networking gravitas while subsequently ensuring that you're never going to cut through the fog of uninspired self-promotion-cum-egomania and find good, useful tweeted content, or (2) you can just follow really interesting and awesome people, and get some real content-value out of the service, but sacrifice a "gimme" at boosting your personal PageRank.*
| Tagged with: | John Maeda, Personal Branding, Self-Promotion, Twitter, Zen |