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Jacob Morgan on Social Media, Technology, Marketing, and Life: Get Through the Fluff with Twitter

  • bob ashley · 11 months ago
    Nice post. I agree...mainly. But there's something to be said for the long, slow, undulating conversation. It has a place. And it eschews Fordian "efficiency" in favor of the slow ripening.

    We gotta know how to shift gears, from the accelerando of Twitter to the ritardando slow, patient talk to really get to know someone. But this is just so much fluff I puff! Enjoy the energy in your writing.
  • jacobmorgan · 11 months ago
    hi bob. i agree with you everything has it's place. i love the long deep conversations, it's like playing a game of chess, of course sometimes you want the quick and straightforward conversations to, like playing connect four!

    thanks for the comment!
  • EricWerner · 11 months ago
    Good point Jacob - I think it's interesting b/c some people are used to being drawn out and indirect in everything they say. Twitter would be a great tool for training that out of people. I have to agree I've had the same experience with being more direct in person.

    I think that in general my approach is to feel around to see what kind of value I can offer and then make my pitch - fairly inefficient. In Twitter you just say hi can you do this for me - the greatest thing to come from that is most people who are not interested or not able to help you are connected to someone who is and they can just tell you to tweet @interestedparty with the same suggestion or question.
  • jacobmorgan · 11 months ago
    hey eric. i suppose it's true what they say, to each his own :)

    twitter has been a great tool in improving my writing efficiency, it's beautiful. our attention span is getting shorter by the day so when you are given the option for a straightforward chat, sometimes it's a good idea to go with it.

    thanks for the comment!
  • Maria Reyes-McDavis · 11 months ago
    I love Twitter for helping trim down the fluff that people throw in there :-)
  • jacobmorgan · 11 months ago
    as do i, thanks so much for stopping by!
  • Samantha Hartley · 11 months ago
    I so agree, Jacob! I got addicted to Twitter during the election and much prefer it to FB or anything else really, due to its at-a-glance nature. I haven't cracked how to use it for biz needs yet, but I'm the happiest semi-lurker around. Finding cool posts (like this one) and new blogs to read, breaking news and neat people - this is what I love and hope to bring to my tweets once I build the neurons connecting the "look how cool" thought to "oh i should share this" thought.

    140 chars is hard for me: in life I compensate by being an incredibly fast talker, but I love the way I have to revise/delete when tweeting. Forced efficiency!
  • jacobmorgan · 11 months ago
    hey samantha, twitter definitely makes things easy to read and manage :) i think we have all gone through the forced efficiency where we wanted to send someone a message but were just a few characters short of making a complete thought. twitter really is a great resource for so many things.

    thanks a lot for the comment!