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Feature Article
"I see Twitter as this massive world-wide water cooler,” he begins – an analogy that sets me bobbing my head in agreement, “and so I just like to have conversations there. The randomness is kind of the appeal."
~ Jeff Stai, Twisted Oak Winery
Wine Twittering: Welcome to the Virtual Water Cooler
To Tweet or Not to Tweet,
That Is the Question
by
Courtney Cochran
April 15, 2009
he other day, while multitasking on three different projects with looming deadlines, I felt the uncontrollable urge to Tweet. And so instead of squashing the urge to deviate from my pressing (not to mention paying) workload, I mumbled something to myself about connectivity being good for business and logged on to Twitter.com. Within seconds I was typing a quick message (140 characters max, natch) to inform the 150 or so people who “follow” me on the site about what, precisely, I was doing or thinking at that very moment.
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