Practical uses of Twitter: is it the right tool for the job? Feb14 '08
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A good article from the New York Times focuses on a practical, real world use for Twitter - keeping in touch with family members.
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# (1 of 1): Kevin M. Keating » blog.frivolousmotion.com
18 minutes after the fact. (Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:00 AM CST)
Matt, I definitely agree with you here. Practically, there are several great reasons for families to use Twitter. And certainly there are similar reasons for them to use other social networks as well. But, as we all know, there are certain things we want to say that aren't meant for all audiences - whether it's a story about a weekend at college we want to keep from colleagues but share with our frat buddies, or work-related stuff that we think our friends will be annoyed by.
Network segmentation, privacy controls, social permissions - these are the big questions that utilities like Twitter and bigger networks will have to tackle going forward. And implementing ever greater and more granular control without sacrificing ease-of-use is going to be one of the hardest parts of getting there.