Twitter Use #298: Interview Questions

No I don’t really know of 297 twitter uses, but it seems like there is a lot.  At SXSW, we saw Twitter used by the crowd to start a mini-twitter riot during the Zuckerberg interview.  Well at the Web 2.0 Expo the other day, Tim O’Reilly used it in another fashion during an interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz , well at least he tried.

Apparently at the last minute they found that they were not set up to take questions from the audience via a microphone.  So Tim had a great idea, have the audience Twitter in their questions to his twitter account.  Genious.  As it turns out, he had his Twitter account set only to view @ replies from his followers, but nonetheless it was a great idea.

It was later through Tweescan that Tim actually saw the questions that were twitter’d in.  He compiled them and sent them over via email to Jonathon who then took the time to answer them, which is pretty cool in and of itself.

These social media tools make everyone so relevant.  They allow many of us unprecedented access to others we would have otherwise never had the opportunity to contact in the not so distant past.  The playing field has evened out for everyone.  Take full advantage of it.