Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on Twitter?

Re:Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on... by almost on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @01:02PM (#563776)

I think that's where we differ. I don't want to broadcast my thoughts like that, they'd be undeveloped and uninteresting. I'd far rather keep them in my head until they grow into something I think worth sharing. And when that happens twitter doesn't seem like the place I'd want to share them.

I'm still trying to keep an open mind here though, maybe there's something about twitter that I just don't get.

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Re:Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on... by swombat on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @01:21PM (#563799)

Well, as I suggested in my OP, give it a try for 2 weeks... follow at least 20-30 people that you find interesting (and who don't have billions of followers, so they'll follow you back), and try tweeting once or twice a day. Do that for a couple of weeks, then make up your mind about it.

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Re:Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on... by almost on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @01:54PM (#563855)

2 weeks seems like a lot of effort to waste on something without good reason. Maybe there is some sort of magical thing that you only get after using it but it doesn't seem likely to me. I'll try and keep an open mind though, maybe I'll see something that will convince me otherwise.

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Re:Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on... by swombat on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @03:49PM (#564060)

It's not 2 weeks of solid Twittering... :-) You're allowed to do other things for the 23 hours and 50 minutes each day when you're not on Twitter :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on... by almost on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:34PM (#564285)

haha, you have a point there ;)

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