John Moore is doing an experiment on his blog this week. For a week he’s going to share his thoughts on a book he’s reading with his followers. Donald Keough’s Ten Commandments for Business Failure.

Hmm. Interesting use of Twitter.

I am by no means a Twitter expert, but I’ve been pondering Twitter uses for a while now,  like studying folks who have a huge following and trying to determine if that following is content driven or popularity driven or something else entirely. I suppose like blogs, the more you write, the more followers you attract. Guy Kawaski has 18,528 followers! And he is both prolific and popular. Compostinmyshoe (a client of Brains on Fire) is by far best of the best in the name category - at least that I’ve seen.

Some people have a fairly consistent pattern of pointing to tinyurls of interest. Others let you know where they are moment by moment. I kinda of prefer the open dialogue with everyone. Asking for book-keepers in Dallas. Or the “I’ve had too much coffee” sort of thing. It must go along with my love of eavesdropping in airport and elevators. (I’ve been thinking of doing my own experiment. I’d like to see if I can communicate with one-word tweets. Haven’t gotten around to that yet.) What is the most interesting or useless or annoying use of Twitter you’ve seen? (Don’t say people who do silly experiments in Twitterland.) Seriously, have you met anyone or had an experience that has changed your life?

Here’s another thing that has been on my mind about Twitter. A while back, Adam on Mashable.com had an interesting post on spam and the follow or not-to-follow question. Surely as Adam suggests, the good folks at Twitter are listening.

Adam also pointed me in the direction of this great article on “twitterers” in USA Today. This is perhaps the thing that intrigues me most about this new hallway of conversation. From the article: Savvy businesses see gold in the information. Consumers are talking about them on Twitter, and they get to respond more quickly than ever.

Pretty soon, we will all know everyone, including the people who put shoes on our feet and food on our table. Or at least be following them around. Or mabye they’ll be following us? Hmmm.

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