Anyone here on Twitter?

[Andy Nguyen]

So we skipped MySpace, joined LinkedIn, Facebook. What is the craze about Twitter? Anyone on it?

 

[Eugene Krel]

financial engineering in 140 characters or less, what could go wrong?

 

[alain]

So we skipped MySpace, joined LinkedIn, Facebook. What is the craze about Twitter? Anyone on it?

why should we join twitter?

 

[Sanket Patel]

http://twitter.com/spquant

I'm on it, but I don't really 'update' very often.

 

[Sanket Patel]

Speaking of Twitter, Conan O' Brien had this to say about the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmk9CjEha8A

In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge into one super time-wasting website called YouTwitFace

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I actually would love to join YouTwitFace if it's the only place we ever use to network and keep friends updated.
In reality, the number of such sites will grow and hence our digital online life would get more complicated.

 

[tigergb]

I am on as well, although not a fan of it. http://www.twitter.com/a_biao

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Just for good measure, I have created a twitter account for Quantnet (http://www.twitter.com/quantnet) and used twitterfeed to show the RSS feed in my account so if anyone following @quantnet will get all the latest post from Quantnet.
Pretty neat.

 

[FourthQuattro]

I had just added you/the group on facebook, Didn't expect to see quantnet on there but it was nice to see. As for twitter I think it's all a media hype. lol

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Now, what you tweet will become part of history. It can also be searched via Google. How exciting is that.

Twitter as History - Library of Congress Signs Up - NYTimes.com
Watch What You Tweet: Google's Archiving - CBS News

 

[alain]

I still don't use twitter. I don't see any value in using it yet

 

[Andy Nguyen]

If you are a business or a celebrity, twitter makes sense. If you are John Doe, you won't make friends or have followers there.
Read somewhere that a large amount of twits are generated by a very small percentage of members. The rest is in the digital void.

 

[Aditya Chitral]

Just to mention how social networking websites have changed our lives. I read a status update on "FACEBOOK" referring "TWITTER" with a new face to age old maxim

"Those whose house is made up of glass should not even tweet about stones"

 

[Andy Nguyen]

@quantnet now has 273 followers

Good way to pick up breaking news/ article idea

 

[Andy Nguyen]

It took our twitter account over one year to have 335 followers but it's been passed on by our facebook's page which to 363 in a short 2 months.

It seems to me the younger people are on FB and the old people are on Twitter