Comments on: Understanding Twitter

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:45:37 +0000

What the guys said – but just to re-iterate – under no circumstances send the tweets to your phone. You’ll just go berserk!

By: andyp

andyp — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:38:04 +0000

Right, I guessed you were looking at the public timeline. 99.95% of that will be inconsequential to your interests. Go with James’ suggestion. And you could always create and account and add friends just to create a feed for the individuals you are interested in… you don’t have to send updates yourself… initially

By: james governor

james governor — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:28:01 +0000

ignore the public time line. thats the like trying to read every blog ever written by anyone. insanity. suscribe to friends and useful services.

use the phone for upload but not down. its a good way to tweet, but not to read tweets.

email is dead.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:00:13 +0000

I kicked off with the pubioc timeline in Twitbin. More out of curiosity so I can see what’s happening and perhaps discover stuff I might be interested in.

I’d like to get rid of all the Korean, Japanese and Chinese stuff – can’t read those.

By: andyp

andyp — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:51:40 +0000

What are you actually monitoring in Twitbin – the public timeline, James, or your own home page of those you’ve subscribed to?

Personally I’ve found it useful for social arrangements / location awareness, technical support, status broadcasting, micro blogging… but you are right that it can waste time in a meaningless way. I try not to follow everything and treat it very aysnchronously, only dipping in at a point in time and not responding to everything I’ve either seen or missed in a 24 hour period. Others are more… committed….

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:09:47 +0000

I’ve got Twitbin running in my FF sidebar just to see what’s going on and yes – 99% of it is garbage.

I can see value as an IM alternative for my friends. If I could restrict or choose specific friends for things like the Salesforcewatch thing then I’d probably see more value.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:58:20 +0000

I agree with you on many facts. At first I still think, that my mobile is mine and should not be used as an internet connection gateway. I still beleive in the last refugium of privacy .

From my point of view Twitter opened up a new speed level of publishing information usefull and useless. But on the other hand it feeds the human voyeurism of wanting to know what other people do. I know many people reading Skype mood messages everyday, now they twitter.

Good? Bad? …