Comments on: The Real Trouble With Twitter – There’s no There, There http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . . Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David F. http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble#comment-92203 David F. Mon, 07 May 2007 19:57:18 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble/#comment-92203 "aggregated monologues don’t make communities" Exactly! With all of this technology seemingly created to keep us all "in touch" it is striking to watch the continued decline of not just community, but friendship. The polls keep showing that Americans find themselves with fewer and fewer friends over the past 50 years. Putnam's "Bowling Alone" has accelerated, not decelined, since the advent of the Web. “aggregated monologues don’t make communities”

Exactly! With all of this technology seemingly created to keep us all “in touch” it is striking to watch the continued decline of not just community, but friendship. The polls keep showing that Americans find themselves with fewer and fewer friends over the past 50 years. Putnam’s “Bowling Alone” has accelerated, not decelined, since the advent of the Web.

]]> By: John http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble#comment-90719 John Thu, 03 May 2007 13:26:37 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble/#comment-90719 @Tom - but why wouldn't you just push those logs to some other delivery mechanism - have it send SMS, or output an RSS feed you can read from multiple places in different formats? There is the whole concept of notifications that go always to web, and optionally to IM or SMS - that is intriguing, but it's clearly not what people are gushing about as Twitter's place in the ecosystem. @Tom – but why wouldn’t you just push those logs to some other delivery mechanism – have it send SMS, or output an RSS feed you can read from multiple places in different formats?

There is the whole concept of notifications that go always to web, and optionally to IM or SMS – that is intriguing, but it’s clearly not what people are gushing about as Twitter’s place in the ecosystem.

]]> By: John http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble#comment-90717 John Thu, 03 May 2007 13:24:12 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble/#comment-90717 Sal - comment spy is interesting, but you're right - it is a question of signal to noise ratio, which is a big enough problem in all the various media I already consume. It's hard to imagine adding another "attention stresm" unless it displaces an existing one - and neither twitter nor commentspy are there yet, for me. Sal – comment spy is interesting, but you’re right – it is a question of signal to noise ratio, which is a big enough problem in all the various media I already consume.

It’s hard to imagine adding another “attention stresm” unless it displaces an existing one – and neither twitter nor commentspy are there yet, for me.

]]> By: Tom Clancy http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble#comment-90686 Tom Clancy Thu, 03 May 2007 11:31:54 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble/#comment-90686 I had the same . . . well, not the same reaction, mine was a more violent retching at the idea of the self-centeredness of it all, but then I read a comment on O'Reilly Radar from someone who set up an account for his home automation system and uses Twitter as an easy way to watch the logs. I think there are a ton of uses like that for Twitter. The intended use still seems awful. I had the same . . . well, not the same reaction, mine was a more violent retching at the idea of the self-centeredness of it all, but then I read a comment on O’Reilly Radar from someone who set up an account for his home automation system and uses Twitter as an easy way to watch the logs. I think there are a ton of uses like that for Twitter. The intended use still seems awful.

]]> By: John http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble#comment-90335 John Wed, 02 May 2007 17:24:53 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble/#comment-90335 Just found this page on Twitter's help, explaining the @username syntax, which adds the "in reply to" notation to your tweets. At least this gives you a kind of stumble-through experience to retrace a thread. http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=63 Just found this page on Twitter’s help, explaining the @username syntax, which adds the “in reply to” notation to your tweets.

At least this gives you a kind of stumble-through experience to retrace a thread.

http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=63

]]> By: Sal Darji http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble#comment-89596 Sal Darji Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:02:20 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble/#comment-89596 I found Twitter through your blog. It was mildly entertaining to see the comments from SxSW. Mainly because I wasn't there and because it was a new interface. I have checked out their site and service a few times now, but like you, I don't know many people who use it and am not interested in following most people. I am interested in hearing what Barack Obama has to say, but I'm looking for more than a one-liner about the War from him. An interesting interface that I prefer (almost like textual television) is <a href="http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/commentspy/" rel="nofollow">commentspy</a>. There is a little bit more context there, but once again it is very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Imho, leave Twitter for the Twits ;) I found Twitter through your blog. It was mildly entertaining to see the comments from SxSW. Mainly because I wasn’t there and because it was a new interface.

I have checked out their site and service a few times now, but like you, I don’t know many people who use it and am not interested in following most people. I am interested in hearing what Barack Obama has to say, but I’m looking for more than a one-liner about the War from him.

An interesting interface that I prefer (almost like textual television) is commentspy. There is a little bit more context there, but once again it is very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Imho, leave Twitter for the Twits ;)

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