More bids for people and organisations who should use Twitter

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#1 gareth wong on 12.06.08 at 10:33 am

congrat. on your galant effort if you can convince them.

However, despite my tech. background and in the ‘tech’ space since the 90s, I am still not comfortable with ‘broadcasting’ my life via blog, let alone twittering which is more personal and immediate (esp. via mobile & sms)

Since I got a twitter account back in Apr07, I only started using it in the last few weeks, and I still keep my feed private.

my thinking is that it is not yet ready for people that wants to keep privacy, its all very good with guys like @jemimakiss, & @guykawasaki who are already in public domain as part of the job or someone that want to use it as a tool to promote his business/activities.

I think it maybe difficult, as even person like myself who organise things, speak in conferences in my sector, I still to be honest like to ‘keep to myself’ or at least with those that I know..

I would hate to have people come up to me and says they know my family or my inner most secret when I have never heard of them before etc. (sometimes I forget, I have to admit, thats why I rely on my notes on my blackberry)..

therefore, until twitter can cater for people like me, where I keep my twitter feed private & yet still can interact with wider world (namely, can elect to interact with people publicly, maybe on a tweet by tweet basis), then yes, I think your work in trying to convince the said names above would be much easier.

Hope to meet you sometime in the coming months/years,

Best Regards

Gareth Wong

Twitter ID: @garethwong

#2 Gia on 12.07.08 at 11:13 am

I’m Professor Brian Cox’s wife and *I* am on Twitter (@giagia). I have to say, Brian is far, far too busy to use Twitter. He hardly has time to stay on top of his emails let alone spend any time at all telling people what he’s up to. So, if you contacted him telling him to start using Twitter, the likelihood of your email remaining unanswered is pretty high!

Also, CERN does have a Twitter account (@cern), but they aren’t very good at keeping it up. I suspect, they, too, have more important things to do.

On CERN’s switch-on day, however, *I* was the one people were going to for CERN news as my husband was in the control room on webcam to me, telling me everything that was happening as it was happening – I passed information on far quicker than anywhere else (as is always the case w Twitter).

Also, Charlie Brooker is a good friend of mine. He’s so busy he’s not updated his Facebook page for a month… and then only updated it a month before that. It’s unlikely he’ll start Tweeting.

See, some people have so much to do with their jobs and their lives that doing anything online – no matter how small – is just not possible. The irony is, of course, that those people tend to be the most interesting and therefore the people we want to know most about.

The reason Stephen Fry has been so successful is because he’s been online since the days when it was smoke signals- before the WWW. He’s been blogging for years as well. His life has always worked around his computer use. It’s not the same with everyone else on your list.

I just got Jonathan Ross onto Twitter last week (@wossy). He’s not updated a lot, but then he was very busy last week. He isn’t used to going online and telling people what’s happening, so I suspect it will take a long time (and a lot of poking from me) to get his updates to be anywhere near as regular as Fry’s are…

So how does an MP have time for all this?!

#3 Luke O'Rafferty on 12.08.08 at 1:51 am

Err… both CERN and Lance Armstrong already do tweet. See @http://twitter.com/cern (not updated since October though) and @lancearmstrong. Other than that there’s definitely a few good ones up there

#4 Alexis on 01.05.09 at 12:49 pm

Tom
Flattered to be on the same list as many of the names above. Look forward to discussing with you, the old fashioned way, face to face.
Happy New Year
Alexis

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