“What’s Happening?”

For many, the answer is personal, mundane, and sharing such happenings can cause a person to reflect on the mundanity of their day-to-day (even moment-to-moment) life. The reaction, naturally, is to brush off such a waste of time and its appendant insecurities.

Tweeting, at it’s best, is about adding value to the public space. Twitter provides a platform for exchanging cultural/social capital and requires the twitterer to have a consistent voice and offer a constant flow of value-added tweets, and even to some extent have a content strategy. Ridiculous, I know. But a Twitterer needs has to offer 140-character insights to his or her followers that inspire RTs, @s, DMs, and encourage additional followers.

Twitter is another form of the marketplace. Who is offering the best goods and services?