Comments on: Commuter Feed-Twitter as a Platform

By: T2T - Technorati to Twitter - blog monitoring « Using IT

T2T - Technorati to Twitter - blog monitoring « Using IT — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:52:10 +0000

[...] – Technorati to Twitter – blog monitoring Following Chris Brogan advice in his Commuter Feed-Twitter as a Platform post: “Twitter as a platform is one of my favorite things to consider. Why? Because what [...]

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:23:39 +0000

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By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:27:08 +0000

This service is amazing. I found it yesterday, from Biz Stone’s tweet. At that time there was only 1 tweet for Toronto, now there are 9.

In fact, one of the 9 ( http://twitter.com/cglynne/statuses/709378362 ) is about 3 minutes from my house (in regular traffic, of course). Amazing.

By: Dave C. - The Backfire Blog

Dave C. - The Backfire Blog — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:51:22 +0000

Even though I’ve been “using” Twitter for awhile now, it’s only recently that I’ve started to pursue it as an option for other things. I always found it to be a bit banal, but that was only because I couldn’t see the bigger picture beyond all the posts of people twittering about what they ate for breakfast.

Now I’m using it as a promotional tool, mostly experimental at this point, and I’m hoping it generates a tiny bit of buzz for my site, but even if it doesn’t bring the hangers-on in droves, it takes so little of my time to manage, it’s worth it.

So, using that as a stepping stone to the bigger picture, I can say that Twitter as a platform is definitely a possibility for certain types of users. The traffic idea is cool as long as you are able to follow only the areas you need rather than all. I’m not sure I would use it myself, but that’s because I have one way in and one way out to work each day.

Long winded answer to basically say, “Sure, it coudl work.”

By: Geoff Manning

Geoff Manning — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:20:02 +0000

I travel all over the metro Boston area so I will certainly keep my eye on (and contribute to) Commuter Feed.

Easy tip:

Setup a canned sms message that starts:

@commuter(space)citycode(space)

Then type your alert when you pull up the canned message