Twitter is for risotto lovers, travelers, friends, and the ADD generation

Users are passionate about their social media tools, especially Twitter. Here are some ways people describe Twitter, we found on the web, along with the links where we found them:

Twitter is for... Risotto lovers, listening, teenagers?, twits, tossers, douchebags, transmitting outrage, you, travelers, people who like to agree to agree, civic journalists, ADD generation, smaller things, not for teens, and friends.

Twitter is like a...diary that you keep under everybody else's mattress, sauna: we are all in the same space, we show everything, but are not really looking at each other, going to your local middle school, handing out crack cocaine and mega phones, bar scene and many users will jump ship as soon as something better comes along, fungus, it grows on you and then it is hard to shake, super-brain that everyone can use, massive water cooler conversation, secret handshake that is pretty opaque to people unfamiliar with the concept, giant snowball that has just rolled off the top of Mt. Everest and it’s gaining mass and strength at an incredibly fast pace, pipe line of your personal life that can be maintained without any effort, party you can come to any time of the day or night, day of hyperactivity, with rapid-fire communication, some of it nonsensical and other parts of it brilliant — all happening at a scattershot and furious pace, 'gateway drug' to social media networking,  tomato plant; it needs lots of love and attention to bare any fruit

Comments

[Mike Maisel]

According to dictionary.com, twitter is "to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter" or "Slang A foolishly annoying person."

I think the business use of twitter is way overhyped, frankly much of it near-scam by those seeking to make a quick fad buck consulting to unsuspecting businesses. It is SOCIAL media and great for that - interesting and entertaining. It may one day grow up and acquire a business model, but for now it is just fun.

DISCOLSURE: I don't tweet, but I follow and read.

[Ultimas Noticias]

Twitter is the best proof that the human person is in dire need to be listened and be listened to - this is where most "online" marketing schemes are modeled from!

[Josh Gordon]

It's also super simple and doen't take much time to use. I think of it as ADD blogging. I'm hooked! @joshgordon

[espresso machines]

I would have to agree on this, although the limitations in twitter causes others to "twitter flood"!

[Social Bookmarking]

this is great stuff