I have participated in a twebinar on twitter, which is a great way to interact with others. I think the best way to use twitter, is to put in a search tag, like #vectips, in every response about this interview. That way people can search for that tag and see everyone’s comments and questions.

Also, I would check out TweetDeck. You can put the people you follow into groups. So for this event, I have Jeff and Vectips in a group together so it will be easier to follow the interview.

Looking forward to this!

Thanks for the thoughts.

I will be posting the interview in full later on in the week so people can still read it even if you are not using twitter. Moreover, I created a search string from Twitter that will show result of tweets from Vectips and Jeff_Finley. You don’t need to be signed up to Twitter to follow it. Just use the url below.

http://tinyurl.com/vectips-jeff-interview

If you are part of twitter I suggest using Tweet Deck http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/. If you are following tons of people, you can isolate a group of people you are following to a window in the program.

As for negating the ideal use of Twitter, I think pushing technologies inspires innovation. Not saying what we are doing is necessarily innovative, but maybe it might spark an idea for someone. Maybe not, we will see.

Thanks for sharing!

I’m all for the experimenting process but I think you will find out its more of a pain than gain. And what about those who follow one or both on twitter that don’t want to read the interview, or would rather read it as a whole at a later time?

Just my thoughts…

thanks for the reply, very informative and, well human.

Im actually thrilled about it and am wondering how the questions will be like and how Jeff will answer them.

have a good day
Bruno

Totally understand your concerns. You don’t sound negative at all.

I probably should have explained more about the actual direction of the interview.Vectips is a blog about Illustrator so there is going to be questions on how Jeff utilizes Illustrator in his work, his tips, tricks, settings and so forth. The type of questions that won’t necessary need a two paragraph response. There will also be other general question about his work, inspiration, and things of that nature.

Why twitter? Jeff probably put it best in his post about the interview on GoMediZine when he said “Why do it over Twitter? Because it makes it public and interactive. You can “watch” the interview in real time and even submit your own questions.”

Like you said it might be interesting to see all the tweets when this goes down, but again, it is an experiment.