Comments on: How Twitter helps designers

By: David Airey

David Airey — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:09:12 +0000

Stopped by to comment, Fred.

By: DTG

DTG — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:35:42 +0000

Yes… it’s a delightful resource, however take care in using it — many, many of the tweets are re-tweets or re-tweeted retweets … and many are tweeting plagiarrized content from other sites, either hijacked from the author, or pulling the authors work into the tweeter’s site — who takes credit for the work.

By tweeting and retweeting un-authenticated tweets, Twitter demoralizes the design community.

See:
http://www.graphic-design.com/60-seconds/society/twitter-tweet-jerks

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:14:22 +0000

That’s great to know, Joel. If you haven’t already finished, good luck with your design project.

By: JoelBert

JoelBert — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:09:01 +0000

I started using twitter recently and immediately got a job creating a logo for Maestro’s ( The Grammy award winning, multi- platinum producer ) http://www.listeningsession.com/ . He’s actually the one who referred me to this site & I’ve been tuned in everyday =)

By: Thomas H. Robinson

Thomas H. Robinson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:26:06 +0000

Trying to ‘get into’ Twitter but… so far it’s about the same as FaceBook, just without the photo albums. :)

But, I added quite a few of the logo designers listed about, maybe having bigger network will spark some interest.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:02:32 +0000

Al, I can imagine it’s all too easy to get caught up using Twitter. Especially given the host of Twitter clients and extra “services”. Personally, I stick to the website alone, which is manageable enough for my purposes.

By: Al Woods

Al Woods — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:09:51 +0000

I always find explaining the use of Twitter to mates difficult. They only see it as Facebook’s ‘what I’m doing now’ piece, when it is soooo much more. Admittedly I haven’t gone too deep into it and started getting into the groups and all that, which I know is super useful so will at some point. One gripe I do have with it, well a couple actually, is some of the people on there. Do these guys actually do any work? I can only jump on every few days or so, otherwise I end up bookmarking stuff for fun which takes up far too much time and send me down a very long rabbit hole. Plus, there seems to be a lot of ‘check out this link, which isn’t mine and actually my design is terrible but look at me I’m a popular web rockstar!!’ stuff going on.

Anyways, that aside I gotta be thankful to those who do find and post a million links a second because there’s no way I’d have the time or knowledge to find them all, so it is a huge help.

By: Mort

Mort — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:11:13 +0000

At first I hated twitter, but then I started using it for feedback and I’ll be damned it twitter isn’t perfect for getting quick concise critiques. Thanks for the link to the list of logo designers, I’m a gonna follow every one of them.

By: Martyn Web

Martyn Web — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:00:06 +0000

I think its really important to utilise other designers when coming up with a design and getting advice from them can really help with your design, especially if your stuck for inspiration.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:57:24 +0000

Hi James,

Couldn’t agree more. Building trust is essential for online business, and Twitter can definitely help. It can also hinder too, as with your point about time-wasting.

I hope all’s well with the move to home ownership!