Well there was a time probably back in 2007 when if you weren’t on twitter, it was due to you being one of my 6 readers from the STL. No problem, I understand and relate.
The STL is known world wide for being in the show me state, and that being said, is usually dead last at anything new or adopting anything new. People around these parts are well known for being the last in line, last to adopt, and even rejecting mass transportation which is something other big cities have made work in order to grow. No problem at all.
For some reason, obvious if you just read the above, I’ve totally given up on the STL as having any worthwhile reason to be outwardly social. In fact, anytime I go anywhere such as a gathering of people, I’m always asked the question, “So what do you do for a living?”
So of course I tell them about Lookery and how knowing your audience is something really cool to know. Blank stare. Than I say, “Oh, you have heard of Quantcast, Compete dot com, or Google Analytics, right?”
Usually get that same blank stare back at me accompanied with a nervous laugh. That usually tells me, “Give up, the person is from the STL, and if I say something about twitter, they’ll say back to me something to the effect of, “Twitcher? Is that a disease or something?” Sigh, mentally I’m never in the STL. Oh, that “where do you work” conversation is usually short and to the point. I usually end it by saying, “We offer free services, so sign up next time you are online.”
Now some of you will say that twitter, and all this social media stuff like blogs is for the young people. Well that’s funny, as one of the more interesting blogger’s I have added to my feed lately is reportedly 72 years old! And of course we all know Mr. Business Golf who sometimes even finds things before I hear about them or have the inkling to try them. I think he found Plurk first as an example. He isn’t young either, but yet has adopted being online as his home quite well. He even has a Ning site set up for his Business Golf Country Club.
Back to twitter in the STL.
For some reason, one of the few STL people that I follow on twitter re-tweeted a tweetup in the STL. I was like, “What??!??! No way!” I had to go investigate.
What I found was an actual Ning site for STL twitter users. Wow. I signed up and did find that I was #72 there. Very interesting. I guess pretty soon, in another decade or so, I suspect that people from the STL will be on FriendFeed, Plurk, Strands and whatever the newest service is at the time. Remember, that might happen in 5 years to a decade.
Technically Speaking, while I’m happy to see twitter adoption happening in the STL, I’ll wait and see what the actual time line to adoption rate is for the above mentioned services. In a few weeks there will be an actual blogger from the STL featured on the Lookery blog as Featured Site of the Week. How do I know that? Obvious, if you have been one of my loyal 6!
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