Is the Strength of Twitter the Death of Conversation?
Twitter is loosely threaded messages that are a dynamic blend of conversation with direct references to others in the discussion and broadcasting where the message or the link is the focus.
It is getting big and it's really amazing how fast it has grown over the past couple of years.
It is essentially going to become the conversation of the web - used for entertainment, communication, business, etc.
Considered somewhat of a chameleon: it is whatever a user/reader/contributor WANTS it to be.
Actually it is not just about people, it's about news and is very promising indeed - as a social networking tool and search platform.
Twitter is a huge network but you can still choose who you follow.
In the last six months, Twitter has gone nuclear.
People have tried for months and maybe even years to explain why exactly people should switch to the service and what concrete benefits it provides over other forms of information sharing like IM, blogs, texting, online forums etc.
I started using it a while back rather reluctantly and I'm loving it.
I think of it as many an afternoon lost, but rarely an afternoon wasted.
Twitter is NOT where the kids are- twitter is CAPITAL LETTERS for emphasis- twitter is the songs from the 80s that you hadn't thought about in years- twitter is a place where you can appreciate the Backstreet Boys without having to pretend it's ironic- twitter is a surprisingly evocative diary of days and months past- twitter is precisely as interesting and as boring, and as frivolous and as serious, as you choose to make it- twitter is not Facebook status updates- twitter is whatever you make it.
Tweets--the 140-character messages that make up the global Twitter dialogue--have become the preferred medium of communication for more than 50 million executives, celebrities, athletes and everyday people.
Like on Wikipedia, most users merely read this information, and a modest number of people in the long tail use the information in the form of re-tweets, comments, corrections, and alternative opinions or links.
Twitterers like to append notes called hashtags (Â--#- they look like this) to their tweets, so that they can be grouped and searched for by topic; especially interesting or urgent tweets tend to get picked up and retransmitted by other Twitterers, a practice known as retweeting, or just RT.
I've heard people say that they find themselves speaking in Tweets - short, clipped phrases where they say as much as they can in fewer words.
I still post to and read tweets often - and enjoy the 140 character format, but it feels really good to be able to write a few paragraphs that really go into the meat and potatoes of what I'm thinking about.
140 character tweets are not a substitute for well thought out posts though they can be a complement to them.
I've heard people say that they find themselves speaking in Tweets - short, clipped phrases where they say as much as they can in fewer words.
When we talk about referencing others in our tweets we are "atting them" or "@ing" them.
Follow interesting people, creative thinkers, prominent speakers and chances are you are going to be enlightened by a constant flow of insightful tweets.
Following someone on Twitter is a bit like being allowed in his or her inner, albeit public, circle.
Following someone simply means receiving their Twitter updates.
Following is not necessary to reply to someone, and all of your replies are visible in the @username tab in your home page sidebar.
Your profile displays how many followers you have, as if it's some kind of worthiness tally.
Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, text message or any number of external clients, including TweetDeck, Tweetie or Seesmic.
Users can keep their entries public or visible only to people whom they've approved to see them, such as family or friends.
Users have the option of getting answers from their network of people who they actually trust.
Additionally, users can turn on text notifications for individual people they follow as well as, direct messages.
The simple features that they have offered to all users has worked for business users as well.
There are many Twitter users who contribute large amounts of useful information and engage in relatively little conversation.
Twitter is a living breathing collective knowledge brain, we push and pull on it with our comments, searches and links.
It is losing it's geek creds as celebs flock to the service.
It is conversational, people drift in and out of conversations, and they spend time directing their words to specific people because of the @'s in their tweets.
It is, right now, the default identity system for the realtime message network.
Yeah, twitter is cool, and a sign of things to come.
It is getting big and it's really amazing how fast it has grown over the past couple of years.
It is essentially going to become the conversation of the web - used for entertainment, communication, business, etc.
Considered somewhat of a chameleon: it is whatever a user/reader/contributor WANTS it to be.
Actually it is not just about people, it's about news and is very promising indeed - as a social networking tool and search platform.
Twitter is a huge network but you can still choose who you follow.
In the last six months, Twitter has gone nuclear.
People have tried for months and maybe even years to explain why exactly people should switch to the service and what concrete benefits it provides over other forms of information sharing like IM, blogs, texting, online forums etc.
I started using it a while back rather reluctantly and I'm loving it.
I think of it as many an afternoon lost, but rarely an afternoon wasted.
Twitter is NOT where the kids are- twitter is CAPITAL LETTERS for emphasis- twitter is the songs from the 80s that you hadn't thought about in years- twitter is a place where you can appreciate the Backstreet Boys without having to pretend it's ironic- twitter is a surprisingly evocative diary of days and months past- twitter is precisely as interesting and as boring, and as frivolous and as serious, as you choose to make it- twitter is not Facebook status updates- twitter is whatever you make it.
Tweets--the 140-character messages that make up the global Twitter dialogue--have become the preferred medium of communication for more than 50 million executives, celebrities, athletes and everyday people.
Like on Wikipedia, most users merely read this information, and a modest number of people in the long tail use the information in the form of re-tweets, comments, corrections, and alternative opinions or links.
Twitterers like to append notes called hashtags (Â--#- they look like this) to their tweets, so that they can be grouped and searched for by topic; especially interesting or urgent tweets tend to get picked up and retransmitted by other Twitterers, a practice known as retweeting, or just RT.
I've heard people say that they find themselves speaking in Tweets - short, clipped phrases where they say as much as they can in fewer words.
I still post to and read tweets often - and enjoy the 140 character format, but it feels really good to be able to write a few paragraphs that really go into the meat and potatoes of what I'm thinking about.
140 character tweets are not a substitute for well thought out posts though they can be a complement to them.
I've heard people say that they find themselves speaking in Tweets - short, clipped phrases where they say as much as they can in fewer words.
When we talk about referencing others in our tweets we are "atting them" or "@ing" them.
Follow interesting people, creative thinkers, prominent speakers and chances are you are going to be enlightened by a constant flow of insightful tweets.
Following someone on Twitter is a bit like being allowed in his or her inner, albeit public, circle.
Following someone simply means receiving their Twitter updates.
Following is not necessary to reply to someone, and all of your replies are visible in the @username tab in your home page sidebar.
Your profile displays how many followers you have, as if it's some kind of worthiness tally.
Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, text message or any number of external clients, including TweetDeck, Tweetie or Seesmic.
Users can keep their entries public or visible only to people whom they've approved to see them, such as family or friends.
Users have the option of getting answers from their network of people who they actually trust.
Additionally, users can turn on text notifications for individual people they follow as well as, direct messages.
The simple features that they have offered to all users has worked for business users as well.
There are many Twitter users who contribute large amounts of useful information and engage in relatively little conversation.
Twitter is a living breathing collective knowledge brain, we push and pull on it with our comments, searches and links.
It is losing it's geek creds as celebs flock to the service.
It is conversational, people drift in and out of conversations, and they spend time directing their words to specific people because of the @'s in their tweets.
It is, right now, the default identity system for the realtime message network.
Yeah, twitter is cool, and a sign of things to come.
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