What I got out of twitter

My initial response to this communication tool was "why do I need to tell people what I am doing and thinking all the time?" This was also prior to starting my twitter account so it was based solely on what my perception of "following" was. Few, if any, of my daily contacts used twitter. My initial tweets were messages about where I was or what I was doing. Again, still basically a narcissistic tool as far as that part is concerned.

The more comfortable I became with it, the more I could see it as a group tool regarding discussion of a specific topic or just a general reference board for thoughts and comments within a group of connected individuals. For the purposes of this class, it is an easy place to ask a question to our group and recieve multple responses in return, instead of having to ask the same question 6 times to 6 different people to get the same number of responses as one question on twitter.

Two things I liked about twitter were the simplicity of it and the ease of tracking the conversation with a hashtag. The concern I have with it, is that the responses you get are only from those who also tweet, so the information you recieve may not show all sides of the picture. How much value I can place in this remains to be seen. I think I would need to keep (and use) the twitter account to see where it fits into my communication tool box.