Comments on: User Content Feed

By: Yvonne Marie Andres

Yvonne Marie Andres — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:52:25 +0000

Actually - twitter seems to simply be a world vision stream of consciousness….random thoughts, by random folks….

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:13:42 +0000

I’m bummed that we couldn’t make the Balto show, but we couldn’t have made it up there even by 7:30, let alone 7. Also we had to stay home and get stood up by a drunken friend. Good times.

I don’t understand Twitter either; the primary function seems to be drastically reducing the signal-to-noise ratio on the tubes.

By: Andrine

Andrine — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:18:06 +0000

I have been intrigued by twittervision because it makes the world seem so small (and somewhat small-minded), and was watching it a few days ago when I saw a message from someone I actually know in another state. It was exciting in a weird way; random messages from strangers and then suddenly a less random message from a friend.

As for its usefulness, two days ago a group of my friends were at Etech in San Diego and one of them took ill. Another took him to the hospital and twittered the universe to let us know what was up and how he was coming along. It saved a whole lot of time to send that message on twitter rather than having to call or email everyone who cared. I was surprised at how well it worked.

Additionally, twitter fine tunes my ability to obsess about and stalk JoCo. Thanks for that! Love and kisses! -Andrine

By: John

John — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:07:20 +0000

The light and inessential quality of Twitter is its most compelling feature, in my view. Given that I have so many communications channels that implicitly require response, it’s nice to have a stream for short messages to be shared from anywhere to no one in particular with no implied obligation of response. For example, I didn’t need to know that JC rang up 76k on a Ms. Pacman (good job with that, BTW), but it made me laugh for a few seconds to think of him at the Maryland rest stop when I had a few free moments to notice it. It may have made JC happy for a few seconds to share his pride at the score. Win/win.

It’s a toy, no question, but I’d rather that people throw that kind of inessential stuff up on Twitter than IM or email me about it. Hundreds of journal sites demonstrate that people can share their scatological history at great length. At least Twitter makes them pare it down to 140 characters.

Of course, I’ll stop using Twitter the moment anyone I care about says “Why didn’t you respond to my Twitter?!”

By: BobCat

BobCat — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:57:41 +0000

Twitter is for twits. It’s right there in the name. It’s for people who can’t form coherent thoughts and translate them into graceful sentences. It’s like Web Number Two Point Oh and Push combined.

With Twitter, they can IM the whole world that they are taking a poo.

I promise to never look at it again, ever.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:46:29 +0000

No one understands why Twitter is compelling. But it is. It’s much like America’s Funniest home videos in that respect..either that or David Guest. It’s biggest evangelist is of coarse Scoble, but that guy had no problem shilling out for Microsoft so who can trust him?

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:01:35 +0000

I’m not sure what the point of twitter is, but http://twittervision.com/ makes it more interesting…

By: ArrantPrac

ArrantPrac — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:23:26 +0000

I don’t get Twitter either, but it might be interesting if Code Monkey had one… then he could keep us updated while he’s pretending to work.

By: Chris Radcliff

Chris Radcliff — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:47:12 +0000

I should have said “specificity” instead of “subtlety”; I just couldn’t think of it until after I posted.

By: Chris Radcliff

Chris Radcliff — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:37:47 +0000

I updated the time on the calendar; hopefully it won’t get overwritten by Ticketmaster.

I’m also trying to figure out Twitter. It seems to combine the immediacy of drunk dialing with the subtlety of a bullhorn in a bingo parlor. But I’ll continue to appear to give it a chance until it disappears in a puff of electrons.

Oh, and thanks in advance for the add.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:35:18 +0000

I myself feel the pointless of Twitter, and this is from someone who is likely addicted to information input.