For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is a web application that is intended to answer a question: What are you doing now?
This morning I visited Twitter to login into my account when I noticed the familiar logo of IOL one of South Africa’s premier news portals on the Twitter homepage. It’s good to see that they are finally using some sort of “new web” (web 2.0 irritates me) service to increase traffic to their site. BBC are doing it too, so why not. Good move IOL, I hope it pays off.
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I take full responsibility for the fact that IOL is on twitter.
It’s been running for about 6 weeks now, and I blogged about it over at http://bug.reaper.org/archive/205 (in my personal capacity). I saw the BBC feeds there, and made use of the twitter API to add our RSS feeds to twitter too… Close on a hundred people following already, sweet.
I use Twitter through Jabber, but it’s down so frequently that I’m really starting to get tired of it.
Aubrey: Nice work.
Charl: I think I have “twittered” once, it’s a bit time consuming and I’m lazy.
the thing with twitter is, it’s one of those things that everyone jumps on. and then they twitter like crazy for about a week or three (depends on how into the blogosphere you are), some of them look up and go ‘ooh new business model’ and other go ‘wtf’ or ‘erf’. then life resumes as per normal.
It is really interesting that IOL is suddenly leaping ahead like this. Great work IOL!