What was your Twitter Aha moment?

There is a lot said, talked and written about Twitter. It has been around for a while. It has just been discovered by Swedes. It has been called a time-sink and a journalistic must-have.

What was your AHA! moment? The thing that got you to say: this is great, I have to keep using this!

As a journalism tool,   for me it was this: Crash Test Community

Comments

[Dilyan]

Another Twitter Aha moment: http://bit.ly/KsWT

[Graham]

Not so much a moment as a realisation that myself and a lot of folk I know stuck with a service that kept crashing and whaleing out on us. I wouldn't normally do that, I figured there was something there.

But that was then, this is now. Still get whales, but there's a whole lot more going on now. I mean did you see the muber of folk Current.tv had just monitoring Twitter during the Obama inauguration?

http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/20/current-tv-ushers-in-a-new-kind-of-newsroom-tweet-filtering/

[Ben]

I was introduced to Twitter in 2007 by my lecturer, and he didn't really explain what it could be used for. It seemed to be a part of Facebook that someone thought "That could work on its own." A bit pointless really.
Last year, you (Mark) came to lecture at UCLan and told us trainee journos to make sure we use it...and we have.
Thanks Mark :)

[Dilyan]

When I signed up for Twitter I was asked if I wanted to protect my updates. I thought a little bit of security couldn't hurt, so I went for it. Then, maybe a week later, somebody followed me and when I clicked on their profile to see if I was going to follow them back, I couldn't decide because they had protected their updates. This was my Aha moment -- I realised that Twitter was abour sharing and being open. At this point it all finally made sense.

[Mary]

Wow - it´s like a chat. With a lot of interesting people. New and old friends. Interesting, interactive, I like...

[Julia]

@juliaskott [http://twitter.com/juliaskott] @markmedia Um, my Aha moment was realizing that, in theory, @stephenfry knows what I'm doing at any given moment. I AM GEEK HEAR ME GEEK.