Comments on: Middle Class Becomes Twittering Class?

By: S. Buck

S. Buck — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:25:00 +0000

But who says you have to send (or receive) blather? Back during the Oakland Hills fire, I took in friends who had unexpectedly become refugees. They asked me which route to get out of the burning hills in Montclair was safest to take. It would have been nice to have had cell phones and definite information. We had neither. (They made it out safely.) Might Twitter contacts have helped, if Twitter had been around then? I think so.

By: Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:22:56 +0000

Be dauntless, yes. Great thought, but talk on Twitter? More like burp. Here's more on Alternet.org: Twitter Nation Has Arrived: How Scared Should We Be? By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. Posted February 21, 2009.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:59:21 +0000

Margaret, You raise good questions. In very ancient days, people hunted for game, taming dogs and falcons to help them. More recently, they hunted for jobs and business connections through networking, taming the wild cocktail party and learning to “work the room.”

With the coming of the World Wide Web, the hunt spread to the Internet and job search web sites.

Now it is leaping to social networking sites and to Twitter, which can reach out to cell phones as well as the web. The room to be worked has expanded enormously.

I am impressed by the ingenuity of anyone figuring out how to use this as part of a job hunt.

Does this mean jobs are out there to find? I don’t know yet. When I see something new that is within my budget–and someone who has used it creatively–I immediately want to see if there is some way to use it to give more of us a voice.

The question of whether we are becoming “songbirds in danger of extinction,” archiving only ourselves, or something perhaps a lot more positive, remains up in the air.

One used to say, “Stay tuned,” about a developing story. I admit that the words “Stay twitted” just don’t have quite the same lofty ring, so I will urge instead, “Talk to the world; be dauntless.”

By: Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:15:12 +0000

Nice and simple, your blog, about another daunting telecom piece of electronics that magically you’ve made me understand. Twitter, and my resume and Karl Rove. Obama, too! You’ve linked them all–what a network scheme. Are you saying we can all find jobs via Twitter? Or that we are all being recorded like songbirds in danger of extinction?

But I’m so resistant to another goddamn twittering piece of equipment I have to get my hands around! Not curious like you are suggesting, not adventurous. Does that mean I haven’t been out of work long enough? Or am I just too old to care?