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Twittering The Days Away
September 10, 2008
I'm generally high on social media as a marketing tool for hotels, but one popular platform that I've been awfully skeptical about is Twitter, which is essentially a hybrid between a RSS feed and Facebook status updates. It kind of struck me as a form of lazy, content-free blogging.
I finally decided to give Twitter a real chance this week, and I'm starting to think I was off the mark on my previous judgment. You can follow my Twittering at twitter.com/askirby, if you're so inclined.
Like the world of blogs, Twitter definitely has its fair share of useless dreck. But it also has nuggets of info and plenty of mildly amusing tidbits.
Among the stuff I learned from my 5-minute morning Twitter perusal (which will become a part of my daily Web-surfing routine, right after reading email and right before checking the WIWIH blogroll) ...
Posted by Adam Kirby on September 10, 2008 | Comments (0)