I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
To Twitter or not to Twitter?
A number of friends are "on" Twitter and apparently I should be too. I'm not quite sure why though. If blogging is anything to go by, it'll probably take me a couple of years to get round to it.
But what do you use it for? I've seen some people use it for "thought of the day" or things like "now I'm on a bus"! Surely people aren't THAT interested in what someone else is doing ;-)?
I'm sceptical too. Not for sure "I'm on a bus"..at least for me. But maybe it can have some usefulness as IM broadcaster :) Something like "take a look to this link" or "Have you an opinion about something?". I still sceptical, but let me try http://twitter.com/maeste
Well that worked Stefano. But did it bring anything into your life ;-)? Do you feel any more satisfied now than before? Maybe I'm too anti-social for social networking ;-)?
I'm anti-social too :). For sure I don't feel better now than before, and I'm not sure I'll use it seriously. Probably the questions is "can you give something to your reader?" Isn't it the same question you should ask yourself opening a blog? For sure I'd like to share with you and other commenters of this post some link and idea come at our attention. Come on Mark give it a try, maybe you will not use it a lot, but share links and ideas would be easy and univasive, and for sure will give something good to your readers
Yeah you should get on it. its much less time consuming then blogging. Basically you reserve your blogs for larger articles.
ReplyDeleteI'm in - http://twitter.com/trustin
ReplyDeleteBut what do you use it for? I've seen some people use it for "thought of the day" or things like "now I'm on a bus"! Surely people aren't THAT interested in what someone else is doing ;-)?
ReplyDeleteI'm sceptical too. Not for sure "I'm on a bus"..at least for me.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe it can have some usefulness as IM broadcaster :) Something like "take a look to this link" or "Have you an opinion about something?".
I still sceptical, but let me try http://twitter.com/maeste
Well that worked Stefano. But did it bring anything into your life ;-)? Do you feel any more satisfied now than before? Maybe I'm too anti-social for social networking ;-)?
ReplyDeleteI'm anti-social too :). For sure I don't feel better now than before, and I'm not sure I'll use it seriously. Probably the questions is "can you give something to your reader?" Isn't it the same question you should ask yourself opening a blog? For sure I'd like to share with you and other commenters of this post some link and idea come at our attention. Come on Mark give it a try, maybe you will not use it a lot, but share links and ideas would be easy and univasive, and for sure will give something good to your readers
ReplyDeleteOK, there you go. I've added a Twitter box to my blog. Let's see if it gets used ;-)
ReplyDeleteI am watching your experience with this... I am in the same area of thought as you to this one Mark.
ReplyDeleteI have avoided these things too up to now. ;-)