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Re: Twitter Schmitter.... Twitter is one of those things where I understand completely how some people could be repulsed by it. Incessant information flowing everywhere, constantly. Most of it by people who have nothing particularly interesting to say.
As somebody who traffics in information though, I have to say I've found it useful -- despite the fact I couldn't understand what it was for initially.
At this point, every single major ISP has a Twitter presence, so getting questions answered has gotten easier, which is great. It also does a great job giving these massive, seemingly apathetic companies a very real human face, which I also think is great. |
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kudos:12 | Twitter is great if you need to disseminate information without necessarily getting a ton of feedback or cluttering up your announcement with comments.
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kudos:12 | said by Karl Bode:Well, you do get feedback though. It's just different. Right, but you can totally ignore it if you so choose and it doesn't really screw with "your" timeline.
For example, if I @ reply you from my Twitter account, no one but you can see that, unless you choose to @reply to my @reply and even then, your followers can only see your @reply, not the original comment.
It's a great platform for companies to distribute critical information and for self-centered celebrities to make sure they stay at the center of attention. (ha)
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2 edits | All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. You'll see the idea of instantaneous info exchange just incorporated across apps. I also expect in short order, corporations will greatly restrict what their employees can say and/or do via Twitter because there's PR risk involved in acting like a human being and speaking your mind (imagine the horror of that!  ).
Still, where Twitter is right now, there's value in the info being exchanged. Especially for bloggers -- given there's countless corporate employees who are chatterboxes and give up info you couldn't otherwise obtain from traditional support and/or PR. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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kudos:12 | said by Karl Bode:All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. I expect in short order, corporations will greatly restrict what their employees can say and/or do via Twitter because there's PR risk involved in acting like a human being and speaking your mind. Still, where Twitter is right now, there's value in the info being exchanged. Especially for bloggers -- given there's countless corporate employees who are chatterboxes and give up info you couldn't otherwise obtain from traditional support and/or PR. I totally agree. I very, very rarely post on Twitter, but I do follow several companies and people I enjoy hearing from. I think the fact that others can't clutter up the page is what makes it so valuable. You don't have to worry about the signal-to-noise ratio ... it's all signal.
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kudos:1 | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:Twitter is one of those things where I understand completely how some people could be repulsed by it. Incessant information flowing everywhere, constantly. Most of it by people who have nothing particularly interesting to say. As somebody who traffics in information though, I have to say I've found it useful -- despite the fact I couldn't understand what it was for initially. Twitter is dysgenics thats support ADHD. You can't fit anything intellectual into 160 characters. |
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kudos:1 | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. You'll see the idea of instantaneous info exchange just incorporated across apps. I also expect in short order, corporations will greatly restrict what their employees can say and/or do via Twitter because there's PR risk involved in acting like a human being and speaking your mind (imagine the horror of that! ). Still, where Twitter is right now, there's value in the info being exchanged. Especially for bloggers -- given there's countless corporate employees who are chatterboxes and give up info you couldn't otherwise obtain from traditional support and/or PR. I hope corporations are smart enough to only allow media relations/PR employees to use twitter. PR disasters, vengeful employees saying bad stuff on purpose to screw over the company, employees handing out proprietary trade information (like admitting they a policy of no capital investment and redlining), employees defaming customers, unresponsiveness being turned by the blogosphere into accusations of genocide, antisemitism, fascism, racism and pedophilia. |
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I disagree. For example: "There is no normal." |
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I'm not talking about "vengeful" employees out to screw the mothership. That seems strange to even infer from what I posted. I'm simply talking about good, regular employees expressing themselves. I think Twitter, as it is RIGHT NOW, allows some insight to these companies that you're not going to see down the line. |
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said by Karl Bode:I disagree. For example: "There is no normal." Then I want a part of it, because that would make me 'unique'.
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You've got another follower. |
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Twitter's number is six hundred sixty six
(evil be gone)be gone oh thou security risk that hath bringith a curse upon the world(/evil be gone) (side fact it its a security risk)
have they stopped crashing every other week? |
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said by Matt:said by Karl Bode:Well, you do get feedback though. It's just different. Right, but you can totally ignore it if you so choose and it doesn't really screw with "your" timeline. For example, if I @ reply you from my Twitter account, no one but you can see that, unless you choose to @reply to my @reply and even then, your followers can only see your @reply, not the original comment. It's a great platform for companies to distribute critical information and for self-centered celebrities to make sure they stay at the center of attention. (ha) OMG dumb stupid and waste a time
just ask me a question via instant messaging thank you , that is unless i have some crazy desire never to have privacy and am some weirdo that requires absolutely LOADS a attention cause somehow i don't get any in conventional means
as to govts etc
just another spy tool to "gather" crap on everyone bad enough we have CIAspace and FBIbook and CIAOOGLEsearch |
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said by Karl Bode:I'm not talking about "vengeful" employees out to screw the mothership. That seems strange to even infer from what I posted. I'm simply talking about good, regular employees expressing themselves. I think Twitter, as it is RIGHT NOW, allows some insight to these companies that you're not going to see down the line. I've been to the secret sections of the mother ship, and truth is:
THEY'RE LIZARDS!
THEY'RE HARVESTING HUMANS FOR FOOD!
Sorry, I had a 1984 flash back. All of a sudden my computer looks like a 128K Mac with that horrible horrible mouse that had those shitty plastic legs.
Maybe in a year I can upgrade to a 512K "fat Mac".
Can't see why anyone would ever need more than 512K and a 800KB floppy.
computer nirvana 
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All I have to say is "It's about time!!!"
But seriously, there seems to be a large amount of folks here who just don't get it. And you're right, I guess it's not for everyone, but it doesn't hurt anything to have one, and can certainly help whatever cause you're touting.
And after taking several "e-bashings" whenever I'd post anything about Twitter, I feel somewhat vindicated now that DSLR has officially taken the plunge as well!!
(I've been on Twitter for almost 2 1/2 years, way before most anyone knew what it was or before it was mainstream) At least now people know what I'm talking about when referring to Twitter, whether they use it or not.
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New to Twitter? or just embarrassed before to admit it? I know people here aren't fond of it...
Looks like you guys have been on it for roughly
9 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 1 hour, 13 minutes, 2 seconds
But who's counting.
»howlonghaveyoubeentweeting.com/
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I've had a Twitter acct for about that long--set it up to work with Remember The Milk, which I was trying out, 'cause it was the only way at the time to do one or two specific things with notifications. I still have the RTM acct but don't use it anymore--don't need any of its features. Anything I might use Twitter for now is better served by using a feed reader, so I don't use that anymore either (and, yet, that acct still picks up the occasional follower... which amazes me no end).
The funniest thing I've seen in this Twitter thread is those with a mix & match of hating all things Twitter and/or Facebook and/or My Space and/or whatever "social networking" site/tool used by "the masses" or "celebrities"; it's just so funny how threatened some people feel about things they don't use that others do--that "too kewl for skewl" attitude (which falls apart with others having the same attitude about the things they use). Religious zealots, anyone?
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