Let me apologise in advance. This
article has very little to do with trading at QVM but I just feel I need to get
this out of my system. Is it just me, or
are there others out there who don’t quite get Twitter as a communication
channel?
I am a reasonable technically
adept communicator. I use a PC, a tablet, a smartphone, and I even have a
smartwatch that I can use Dick Tracy style to make phone calls. I email, SMS,
use Facebook and WhatsApp, and I have posted on Instagram. I write articles on
a website that automatically goes out on a Twitter feed but otherwise I have
very little to do with Twitter and I can honestly say I don’t seem to be
missing anything.
I regularly read my news from
abc.net.au and they use twitter feeds a lot, but I have never seen the point of
reading just 140 characters about a story. If it is worth reading I want the
full story. And what is all this about hashtags? Hashtags are those words or
tags that follow the hash sign #. A user
once told me that you add a hashtag or two to identify your story and measure its
readership. Really? I guess that could be useful.
And before I sound like a
complete idiot to regular Twitter users I can see some handy uses for Twitter. News
reporters use it a lot and when you want to get the latest story out really
quickly I see the point. But, otherwise using Twitter just doesn’t seem a
priority and I welcome advice from anybody who would like to tell me what I am
missing.
In the meantime I will get
back to QVM market matters and once again I apologise for getting distracted
over a non-core matter. If you want to complain just tweet me.
By Greg Smith