Last week on Twitter, I asked what kind of tweets people like to read. I compiled a list of their favorites, based on the responses (in Finnish) as a counterbalance to the Twitter fails I reported here two weeks ago. Here are the kind of tweets that the respondents say they enjoy:
1) Positive news
2) Useful summaries or comments linked to the original source
3) Discussions
4) Personal statements
5) Humor, ideas, everyday observations
6) Linguistic wit
7) Photos
I also browse through lists of favorited tweets and through tweet streams. In my opinion, no single tweet from someone is that important; what matters is his overall flow and the sense of presence it gives. In my book, I criticized the term “microblog” as applied to Twitter, but as I explore these streams, the word seems more relevant. Just as in a blog, through Twitter you can hear the author’s voice.