It’s somewhat embarrassing for me that my wife actually had a twitter account before I did. Of course, I’ve now tweeted roughly 8 jillion times more than her, so I win. It did take me a while to figure out how to make Twitter work for me- but when I did, I was hooked and never looked back, even writing an article on Etsy’s blog on how sellers might use Twitter. (It’s about who you follow)
The pattern was exactly the same for Tumblr (but my wife is still sans tumblog!). I could tell there was value, but had to push for a while to figure out what that value was for me. (It’s about who you follow).
That’s why I’m loving bnter (although it should be spelled bantr). I saw the team demo it at a North Brooklyn Breakfast meetup and immediately knew I wanted to archive funny conversations with my kids (something I used to do on twitter a lot), although the service was meant for texts at the time. Once I got on and started sharing conversations I was immediately hooked- I never had to work to figure it out the best way to use it for me. Of course, they saw it my way ;-) and have encouraged any conversations- not just texts.
Of course, funny is good, so it has that going for it; the user base is definitely aiming to entertain you.
The team is doing a great job at engaging users and building the community- kudos to them for that. What happens as it goes forward? no idea- but I’m excited to see.
Check out my Bnter: http://bnter.com/winenutnyc and spend some time with the site- definitely worth it.
