The TeleInterActive Lifestyle

I've been resisting Twitter since I first heard about it, maybe 18 months ago. Whenever I've seen example tweets posted on someone blog that I follow… umm, let's just say that it seems well named. But I also keep reading that after two weeks or so, the business value becomes apparent.

I've been on Twitter for about a week. I was only following 15 folk to start, and five were following me in return. Three folk began following me whom I never met, even in the blogosphere. I'll follow more folk, essentially trying to follow everyone whose blogs I read or who I know, one way or another. I'll be looking for folk in the BI/MDM/SOA/PA, clean/green tech, rocket science, SaaS/PaaS, collaboration/enterprise2, project/program/portfolio management, Agile and distributed workgroup spaces. The areas that interest me, and in which I work. Maybe I'll even look for folk talking about cooking, Italian traditions and culture and food, and SciFi/Fantasy: the stuff in which I'm interested but don't work.

So, far, the closest thing to business value I've encountered is in my post in Open Source Solutions on "SOAP vs REST and OSBI News". Umm, not really that much business value.

I will say that I enjoy using Twitter much more on my iPhone through the web app Hahlo3. The actual web interface from Twitter.com is not enjoyable to use at all. Hahlo3 is a web app formatted for the iPhone, and combines Twitter, the micro-blogging/group-chat platform with Summize conversational search. The "hash tag" feature that finds comments tagged about an event is particularly useful, even when the tweets about the event aren't.

We'll see. I'm keeping an open mind, and trying to be positive.