http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/2009/03/04/what-are-they-saying-about-your-organisation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-they-saying-about-your-organisation A UKOLN Blog for the Cultural Heritage sector (now archived) Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/2009/03/04/what-are-they-saying-about-your-organisation/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Lisa Price Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:46:11 +0000 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/?p=188#comment-82 It’s been fascinating to see this play out. I think your question about listening/eavesdropping is interesting. Up until recent months Twitter has been the web’s backchannel. As awareness of it has grown, more people are opening up multi-accounts for private/public conversations on Twitter – enabling them to say things without their company, prospective employers, or other potentially interested parties, being able to see them.
This has implications for the richness and disruptive ability that we know Twitter offers today.
My Twitter account has been private for over a year – it means I can participate more fully in conversations with people I know and trust, but I can’t be truly involved in all that Twitter has to offer – for example, communicating with organisations who don’t follow me (our local bus station customer service) and there’s not much point in using hashtags since I won’t show up on the public timeline.
I think this whole area is central to the future development of Twitter as a channel – and look forward to seeing more debate around it.

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