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Re: Facebook and Twitter use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Voelker)
Fri May 13 08:06:01 2011
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:05:36 -0400
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2 Years ago we started a facebook account for our repair shop and student
repair services. Within a month we had over two hundred "friends". We
were pretty impressed. Since then we have merged our repair shop with a
newer, bigger initiative which got its own account. We released it
sometime in February of this year. Since then we have gotten a grand
total of 48 friends, half of which work or worked for us in some fashion.
Our twitter account is about 2 years strong and has less than 20
followers. I'm not saying they are useless because they certainly have
their place, but students are getting good at filtering and not setting
themselves up for information overload. Their social networking sites are
primarily for personal needs, not business. At least that's the culture
at our school, it may be different with other campus cultures.
-- Andy Voelker
Manager of Student Computing in the Technology Commons
Western Carolina University
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On 5/12/11 11:23 AM, "Kevin Guidry" <krguidry@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Doughty, Marc <marc_doughty@brown.edu>
>wrote:
>> Thanks for the numbers. They confirm my suspicions about Twitter, which
>>is
>> that it gets a lot of press/hype, but almost nobody actually uses it.
>
>The number of users is relatively small (8% of U.S. Internet users:
>http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Twitter-Update-2010/Findings/Overv
>iew.aspx)
>but don't completely dismiss Twitter as a useful communications
>medium. Given the relatively low number of users I don't think it's a
>very good medium for trying to advertise or conduct other
>broad-spectrum communications. But there are some professionals that
>are making great use of Twitter to meaningfully network and
>collaborate with others in their field; I'm currently studying student
>affairs professionals who are doing this to great effect (one aspect
>of these interactions is explored at
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3_NpscCwJQ&hd=1). There are tons of
>limitations with Twitter but it seems to be working for them.
>
>> It would seem Facebook is much more robust and reaches a much larger
>>audience; I still can't imagine anyone wanting to subscribe/friend
>>something like a computer lab or
>> campus network status, though.
>
>Agreed on both counts. I've seen some snazzy Facebook pages made by
>colleges and universities but I have yet to hear of any dramatic
>success stories (and most people don't even know how to define
>"success" in this area). It's frustrating and time- and
>energy-consuming but it seems that we have to use multiple media to
>communicate with students (i.e. throw a bunch of mud at the wall and
>hope that some of it sticks). But this has always been and will
>always be true to some extent and it's not at all unique to this
>generation.
>
>
>Kevin
>
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