5 Weird Uses for Twitter

Last week I did write that one should Twitter Less and Blog More. My argument was that your priority should always be your blog, especially when it comes to sharing ideas and interesting resources.

Now don’t get me wrong, I still think that Twitter is useful for certain purposes. Lately in fact I am using it more and more to socialize with people and get feedback on quick issues at hand.

Luke, one of our writers on Daily Bits, went one step further and found some terrific yet weird uses for this new tool, check it out:

Get out of jail
Write a book
Create a digital assistant
Talk to your plants
Lose faith in humanity

Here is the full article: 5 Terrific (and Unusual) Twitter Uses

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Daniel Scocco on April 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blogosphere

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20 Responses to “5 Weird Uses for Twitter”

MrCooking on April 30th, 2008 8:58 am

That’s funny. There were quite some websites where I read about the student going to jail and got out by twittering 1 word. Situations like these don’t happen that often, and I’m glad for the student that twitter was invented.

And talking to your plants, what’s going on…
team ray on April 30th, 2008 9:52 am

twitter is cool one of few social network sites i like because its straight to the poing
Siddharth on April 30th, 2008 10:49 am

It sure have a good use to get out og Jail, I aghree with that.
Mayooresan on April 30th, 2008 11:32 am

I agree on the point “Twitter less blog more”

After reading your post only I realized that I’m loosing many ideas that can be converted into nice articles in twitter.!!!! I’m not a twitter addict anymore
Browsers on April 30th, 2008 11:59 am

Whats up with Twitter? Everyone keeps talking about it and I don’t have an accoun there… Is it like PageRank update now? Everyone keeps posting but no one cares :-o)
a husband on April 30th, 2008 12:07 pm

I’m the same as Browsers…everyone keeps talking about Twitter, but I must have come in too late in the game to get an recent articles about how Twitter helps bloggers. And Twitter doesn’t help…they just force you to sign up. I guess I’ll have to just play one day and try to find out.
Patrix on April 30th, 2008 1:16 pm

Strangely I haven’t seen you post updates on your twitter much. I hope I’m not missing your updates. I’m following you though.
Chris on April 30th, 2008 3:47 pm

I joined Twitter about a year ago and never really understood why people are so fanatical about it.

It seems more like a gimmick then anything. Maybe I should try again.
Chester Chen on April 30th, 2008 5:42 pm

yeah, Twitter is cool. But, I dont think u gonna make any $$ if u focus too much time twitter-ing. Correct me if I am wrong.
Daniel Scocco on April 30th, 2008 6:50 pm

@Mr Cooking, yeah it was all over the place.

@Team ray, I like the 140 characters there also.

@Siddhart, no kidding!

@Mayooresan, another one converted :).

@Browsers, you got try it out to get your own opinion.

@husband, same as browsers.

@Patrix, I am building it up slowly :).

@Chris, it is not for everyone that is for sure.

@Chester, yeah not many monetization opportunities closely tied with Twitter.
Aseem Kishore on April 30th, 2008 7:40 pm

I’ve heard about people finding out the latest news using Twitter, even before some of the major news networks. How is this possbile? How does one use Twitter to get news? Thanks
Daniel Scocco on April 30th, 2008 7:48 pm

@Aseem, a lot of people tweet their news or findings before writing on their blogs.
Browsers on May 1st, 2008 7:14 am

Is Twitter something like MySpace or FaceBook (haven’t tried those too)? Or more for other meetings? Or maybe not for meetings at all
classifieds on May 1st, 2008 9:18 am

I just don’t get what so interesting about twitter (microblogging??). I tried using it a few times but can’t really get into writing snippets.
Daniel Scocco on May 1st, 2008 10:22 am

@Browsers, it is like the middleground between microblogs and IM clients.

@Classifieds, it is good to keep up with friends and to network with fellow Internet addicts .
Megan on May 1st, 2008 11:05 am

I just read over on TechCrunch about an Australian wine site that did a Twitter Wine Tasting event http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....e-tasting/
Wow! now that is creative I thought ~megan
classifieds on May 1st, 2008 11:10 am

@Daniel Scocco

I just bought a laptop. Maybe I keep up with it a bit more.
Blog Oh Joe on May 2nd, 2008 4:03 pm

Twitter is a nice short diary tool.