Comments on: Tweet Tweet (some thoughts on Twitter)

By: Mari Adkins

Mari Adkins — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:35:28 +0000

I discovered Twitter a few months ago thanks to a friend. I even downloaded Tweetr so I could Tweet from my desktop and also have the Twitter plug-in for my blog. I’ve caught myself posting Tweets instead of blogging lately, though. That bothers me.

By: Jessy

Jessy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:51:31 +0000

hi how are u doing?

By: Paul Elosegui

Paul Elosegui — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:56:10 +0000

I do not like IM or skype-flow, much to Stowe Boyd’s exasperation at LIFT07, but twitter/jaiku seems a better fit for me.

I get a better signal to noise ratio from twitter than from IM/skype chat.

I may be able to persuade my closest associates to move from email/sms to twitter, where I failed to persuade them onto IM/skype-chat.

By: Amelia Torode

Amelia Torode — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:36:08 +0000

Just don’t have mobile phone up-dates, just get them on your home page. Having Twitter up-dates from all the people in my Twitter circle would drive me crazy!!

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:42:28 +0000

You say that twitter is kind of like MySpace bulletins – by the description it also reminds me of facebook notes, or writing on peoples walls.

By: Chris Lindgren

Chris Lindgren — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:34:52 +0000

Thanks for the link to Twittervision there went 30 minutes of my life. Twitter like all the social networking sites better work hard to understand how people are using the platform they provided. Maybe Google is not investing more in dodgeball because they don’t see the potential? They have a track record of abandoning products that don’t have the potential to deliver.

By: Viil

Viil — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:14:35 +0000

Although twitter didn’t initially appeal to me I was mesmerized for at least 10 minutes by twittervision

By: Jens Alfke

Jens Alfke — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:08:43 +0000

“The techno-geek users keep telling me that it’s a conversation. Of course, this is also said of blogging. But i don’t think that either are typically conversations. More often, they are individuals standing on their soap boxes…”

This immediately made me think of the “parallel play” that very young children (or older children with autistic disorders) engage in. You’ve made similar points before, of course.

To be charitable, the way bloggers reply to each other by posting on their own blogs seems like more of a workaround for lame technology — the dismal state of commenting, and especially tracking comments. (LiveJournal is the exception that proves the rule, here.) Twitter is even worse at supporting conversation since its broadcast model wasn’t designed for that at all.

Humans will definitely attempt to bend any communications medium toward having conversations. It’s a shame many of them are so poorly designed for it…

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:07:57 +0000

This took me here: my take on the intersection (written yesterday, but) is: it’s not narcissism so much. That’s always been with us. I think it’s a new thing, a thing that’s been growing for decades, now, and is reaching its apotheosis with the technologies available — it’s existence as public performance.

Or so I reckon this week, at least.

By: zephoria

zephoria — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:50:21 +0000

Apologies for not clearly marking the youth bit as American here. Yes, when i’m talking youth and SMS, i’m talking 100% American. All of my data collection on youth these days is American. I just feel like i’m on auto-repeat every time i say that.

Sidekicks are definitely good for cluster effects with youth. Free SMS (and mobile IM) makes a huge difference. I’m consistently fascinated by how the Sidekick is still ghettoized in youth culture. It seems like such a brilliantly reasonable device – cheap all-you-can-eat data plan.

I totally agree with the point that it’s a bitch to delete texts on many phones. The nice thing about my Sidekick is that deleting texts is cake. But i detest deleting texts on my Slvr. (And IM *should* work on my Sidekick but i haven’t gotten that going right yet.)