David's Computer Stuff Journal

Twitter? Hrm. Ok...

Posted by David N. Welton Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:11:00 GMT

Yoav's post about twitter was interesting:

http://yoavs.blogspot.com/2009/01/one-curious-thing-about-twitter.html

Personally, I don't really see the appeal. So far there are only two uses I have for it:

  • Lance Armstrong writes a fair bit, and even posts some pictures, and since I am a huge cycling fan, that's kind of fun to read.

  • I use the search API to keep track of people talking about my stuff... Hecl, LangPop.com, and so on. That's kind of handy, but it feels more like a big wiretap than a "conversation".

Other than that, it's another firehose of data that I really don't need - I probably read too much junk on the internet as it is.

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  1. Mark Brown
    about 1 hour later:

    It works best as a social thing - regular information distribution isn't it's forte.

  2. MJ Ray
    about {{count}} hours later:

    I see conflicting advice on this. One is to gush into the firehose yourself, search/monitor/alert it and just dip into it a few times a week. The other sort is that it's a social thing, a sort of proprietary centralised IRC replacement. Who is right? I don't know. (I'm mostly using identi.ca too.)

  3. anon
    {{count}} days later:

    Or you could hop over to http://identi.ca and join the conversations on a free platform.