Time Magazine is the latest mainstream media publication to how a story on the phenomenon called Twitter. While there’s nothing particularly eye-opening about the article, something that caught my idea was some thoughts about the “open discussion” using Twitter – the idea that thoughts at a conference, for example, could be easily shared in real-time rather than waiting to blog or talk about it later.
This concept struck me earlier this week during a small event hosted by Microsoft to introduce its new search engine, Bing. While one of the Microsoft’s employees went through a PowerPoint presentation, there was a silent background discussion happening on Twitter between some of the attendees, including myself.
In an intimate setting, it was interesting to see how we were having a back and forth discussion even before the presentation had ended. People weighed in with their thoughts, asked questions and provided answers. It was a pretty interesting exchange that would have never happened before Twitter (aka BT).
The Open Conversation
Time Magazine is the latest mainstream media publication to how a story on the phenomenon called Twitter. While there’s nothing particularly eye-opening about the article, something that caught my idea was some thoughts about the “open discussion” using Twitter – the idea that thoughts at a conference, for example, could be easily shared in real-time rather than waiting to blog or talk about it later.
This concept struck me earlier this week during a small event hosted by Microsoft to introduce its new search engine, Bing. While one of the Microsoft’s employees went through a PowerPoint presentation, there was a silent background discussion happening on Twitter between some of the attendees, including myself.
In an intimate setting, it was interesting to see how we were having a back and forth discussion even before the presentation had ended. People weighed in with their thoughts, asked questions and provided answers. It was a pretty interesting exchange that would have never happened before Twitter (aka BT).