Twitter story (open thread)

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 08

UPDATE: Instead of sentence by sentence, I’m now twittering just the topic sentences for each paragraph. The reason: To get people engaged, the sentence has to state a position and ask for information. A sentence that simply documents a point doesn’t lead to anything. So people are providing the answers for each paragraph themselves.

I’ve done four sentences. Will try to digest it all by tomorrow morning, write the top of the draft, post it, and resume the Twitter exercise.
Here are the first four tweets:

1) Go ahead and laugh at Twitter. Plenty of trivia. (I’ll put more detail in the story, but don’t want to waste Twitter characters on it.) But businesses are coming up with all kinds of ways to harness microblogging…

2) What started as a watercooler for geeks is becoming a vital com. platform—with its own developer crowd. But now tech challenges:

3) Twit is tiny in social media. Only some half million active users. But influential. More venture funding? What’s it worth?

4)Is Twitter just changeable cog in social media mix? Or with its fast-growing ecosystem of aps developers, will it be a platform?

To participate (and suggest the next sentences), go to Twitter and reply to @stevebaker. If you put #bwstory into your post (using 8 precious characters), your post will join all the others on at Twemes.com

I’ll go along adding the tweets here, one per hour. I was thinking of cutting and pasting all the suggestions onto this blog post. But it’s really easier to look at them on the Twemes site.

FRIDAY UPDATE: Actually, I find it easier yet on Summize. I’m feeling overloaded. I’m going to try writing a draft on Monday, linking to the Tweets. I’ll post it here and we can go from there. Have a good weekend.

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