Tag Archives: lifestream

Reasons for a Private Twitter Stream

May
5
2009

People have often asked me why is your twitter stream is set to private.   Why don’t you just open it up to the rest of the world like everyone else does.  Don’t you get this social networking thing.  Why are you just trying to keep things private, when if you have a footprint on the web it’s just a little pointless.

Well yes there are lots if good reasons to open up a twitter stream to the public, here are a few:

  • It’s really easy for people to decide to connect with you if they can read your previous tweets.

Social Networking via Shotgun

Jul
5
2008

Communtication

A good 12 months ago you could depend upon a a solid core of your social network to be centralised on several common social networking sites, such as flickr, twitter, facebook, linkedin. Things where relatively stable, well as much as they can be. Comments on one sns stayed on that sns, comments on a blog, stayed on the blog. The core of the sns mob would from time to time go explore a new sns, sometimes integrating it into the group of core sites sometime not.