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Vlad · 1 year ago

Jaiku.

Den · 1 year ago

mobile services on the top of twitter: http://servletsuite.blogspot.com/2008/12/inform...

roland · 1 year ago

great rant! i try to make all all twitters include enough context to make them standalone! I'll try harder!

binarylife · 1 year ago

weeellllll it works if you're interested in updates from people you consider to be 'somebody'. that's why i signed up. not that i have much to announce to the universe - and it's all announcements (true that people don't review the importance of their announcements much - "watching some films", oh no shit! fascinating). if you want discussion i propose jaiku.

MartinSFP · 1 year ago

I'm an avid Twitter user. I try to find people on there who entertain and inform me. Sure, I may not really care that someone's laptop has broken down or that they're moving house but as long as they're generally interesting that's fine by me.

Following about 250 people I can't keep up with everyone avidly but through keeping an eye on Twitter through the day I get a flow of information that can help me keep up with what's going on in the world and what's important to people. Through @replies I can build up online relationships with people that can be mutually beneficial.

You should only see the @replies between people you're following so as long as you find two people interesting their conversations between each other may also be relevant to you.

SMSblack · 1 year ago

By the way Ewan, what did you have for breakfast?

jonmulholland · 1 year ago

Didn't we meet up for for the first time after realising via Twitter we were both in San Francisco at the same time? I thought that was pretty cool.

Twitter (and many other forms of social and web 2.0 media) are best treated as a 'river of news'. Dip in and out of it as suits you - don't get too obsessed and accept that sometimes you'll discover an interesting Tweet, blog post or whatever and sometimes you'll miss them.

Isabel Joely Black · 1 year ago

I really like Twitter. I've "met" a great many people on there, and people who read/listen to my books can chat to me on an equal footing. We can have intelligent/anarchic/strange conversations that include all kinds of people. There is also something about the challenge of compressing story into 140 characters. Ernest Hemingway was a great fan of being short and to the point, such as his six-word stories. I avoid people who use it to sell themselves or their stuff, and as a kind of communication tool. It's much better than IM because the conversations are easy to join if you're another follower, rather than having to be added to a group chat beforehand.

It suits the way I work, since I write for hours and sometimes need something to distract me. There's a great creative challenge in conversation like this - you have limited space and often have the challenge of keeping up with entertaining responses. I'm also being exposed to a great deal more content (I found this post via Twitter) than I would ever encounter by merely surfing. I really enjoy it.

Mike Bradshaw · 1 year ago

there was a recent blog post about the two types of twitter user - conversation and announcement (of course i can't find the link now :( ), and how they both think the other one is doing it wrong.

this http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/866802470 is my favorite quote about conversations on Twitter (especially as everything else; Jaiku, Friendfeed, Rejaw etc does it *so* much better)

regarding the use of the "back-channel" at conferences, this post http://designswarm.com/blog/2008/10/18/thoughts... struck a chord with me (although i have only been to a few conferences in Europe)

@jonmulholland Dopplr does the serendipitous meeting thing a lot better than twitter *and* has a much lower level of overhead

Mike42 · 1 year ago

But Dopplr is Sooooo niche in that regard it will never get critical mass to be really useful. It needs to be a mainstream service like FB et al that is seredipitous.

/m

jonmulholland · 1 year ago

I don't think I was using Dopplr at the time, but have since discovered it, and I love using it. What do you mean by 'overhead'?

Mike Bradshaw · 1 year ago

fewer updates even though you follow multiple people due to the fact that most people don't travel that much (single city per day or less)

To keep up with twitter you need to login every day (or multiple times per day) to kep up with the constant cahngin of status, the Dopplr people seem to have tried to keep that to the absolute minimum required, whilst you still can get benefit from it.

Not sure about you, but for me at least there has been a recent "flood" of activity due to Dopplr asking for the answer to some questions (prompted via email so low overhead == i can do it when/if i want)

Denny · 1 year ago

The 'what did you have for breakfast' stuff is about "ambient intimacy" - it's useful for social networks, not business ones. I liked Twitter until people started doing their professional networking on it, then I lost interest.

Jaiku solves the reply problem, which is a big BIG bonus on its part. Plus it still sends SMS updates, although they're not configurable on a per-user basis which is a shame.

Ewan · 1 year ago

I just can't use Jaiku properly. The Symbian app doesn't work that well for
me, for tracking what folk are saying. I must be missing something....

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Denny · 1 year ago

I don't mean this to sound like 'have you checked the printer is connected?' kind of advice, but have you found the view that's accessible by hitting right on the D pad after you launch the application? I'd been using the S60 client for a couple of weeks before I found that view by accident, and my gf also hadn't spotted it until I pointed it out.

I am entirely open to the possibility that we're both mentally incompetent, and everyone else found that view straight-away :) I still think it should be the default though.

Ewan · 1 year ago

Nope. I haven't come across 'D', Denny. I'll download the app and check it
out..

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Denny · 1 year ago

I would like to be able to reduce the font size in that view though... you could fit way more on the screen and still have it perfectly readable.

sevendotzero · 1 year ago

Ewan - sometimes you sound just like Victor Meldrew!

I find Twitter operates on multiple levels for me. Some of the social chitchat is fun - particularly when you know the people well. I've had some great intros to tech companies via people who've contacted me on Twitter. I get news updates from BBC, The Economist, Breaking News etc. It's a ood source for tech stuff people are talking about. The 140 character limit keeps posts brief. Twitter isn't perfect but it's got great potential & can be a lot of fun.