Twitter has launched a new section of its website called Twitter Tales, a collection of “examples of great Twitter use [that] will also likely inspire others to use the service in innovative and interesting ways.”
On the official Twitter blog, communications staffer Carolyn Penner wrote that Twitter Tales is intended to be “a growing set of articles that highlights creative individuals and businesses from all corners of the world that help make Twitter awesome.” Users are encouraged to email tales@twitter.com to share their own stories.
Three of the accounts highlighted so far are @natashabadhwar, a New Delhi-based filmmaker; @caltrain, a community-written account for SF commuters; and @thebloggess, a well-known digital humor writer. Each tale is a thorough and fascinating essay, a sort of social media version of a coming-out story.
If this tactic sounds familiar at all, it’s because both Facebook and Google have been heavily promoting user “stories” lately too. Facebook launched a website to highlight its users’ experiences as part of its 500-million-users commemoration. And Google’s “search stories” began with a Super Bowl ad and has continued as a series of YouTube videos and Google blog posts.
As social media junkies, we ourselves use Twitter for myriad purposes, from communicating with friends and family to spreading the word about work and ideas to sharing media to pure self expression. If you’re a Twitter user, how do you use the service? Has it changed your life in any ways?
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