Since Twitter was created four years ago, there is a ongoing discussion on how to use Twitter for meaningful purposes. However, quite early in the history of Twitter it was suggested to use it as project communication tool.
Currently, there are team collaboration tools that use Twitter (e.g., HootSuite) and Ars Technica discusses the use of Twitter in a recent article: Collaboration 2.0? Twitter team-ups for fun and profit.
After all, Twitter could be indeed a meaningful extension to project collaboration, because of its simplicity and straightforwardness.
We plan to use Twitter as means to link project artifacts over time. If, say a requirements document is created, the creator tweets this and links the tweet with the external document. Thus, we are able to track all project related documents over time.

This is certainly not as sophisticated as the Google Wave approach, but this might have been exactly the problem: users where overwhelmed by the features and didn’t want to use a single tool for every type of communication/collaboration.

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Tags: Collaboration, Project, Team, Twitter, Twitter for Team Collaboration