Beginning of the end for Twitter

[FridgeMagnet]

Looking at their tweets they are quite pestery, and thinking back to Draper et al, it has gatekeeper issues. Still thinking.

I don't understand what you mean in either sense, I'm afraid. I use Twitter daily; I wrote a Twitter client, in fact. Greggs have not been bothering me. In fact nobody has because I have to opt in to see them, unless they @username me which random people generally don't.

 

[Corax]

I went to a twitter 'meetup' thing, and it was jammed full of the most hideous marketing pricks possible. Seriously, most conversations started Guess how much I've earnt this year through online marketing. People were relentlessly 'networking', and I wanted to kill them all.

OTOH, I subscribe to several activist twitterers (yes, hello enumbers) which are useful and interesting.

 

[editor]

More worrying for Twitter is the stats from research bods web metrics company Nielsen Online that show that 60% of Twitter sign-ups stop using the service after just one month...

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[kained&able]

I don't need to know what anyones doing every second of the day, how boring.

oh the irony.

X X triangle that motherfucker
a boom boom boom boom... heeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeaa
does the police have a better chance of gattin swine flu??
so.... much.... pain........
has sucsessfully been to the dentist, face is numb lol


since monday, yo!


dave

 

[bmd]

More worrying for Twitter is the stats from research bods web metrics company Nielsen Online that show that 60% of Twitter sign-ups stop using the service after just one month...

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That long?

 

[gosub]

Did think about it, but have a lot going on. The variable missing is the 2000 cap (slightly blurred but not that much). Safeguards against everything twitter will need to pay back startup or requiring extremely sophisticated marketing (unlikely)

http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/25/swine_flu_twitters_power_to_misinform

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Twitter is magic.

Adam Wilson posted two messages on Twitter on April 15. The first one, "GO BADGERS," might have been sent by any University of Wisconsin-Madison student cheering for the school team.

His second post, 20 minutes later, was a little more unusual: "SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN."

Wilson, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, was confirming an announcement he had made two weeks earlier -- his lab had developed a way to post messages on Twitter using electrical impulses generated by thought.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/twitter.locked.in/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

fuck yeah

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Now that is cool!

 

[Sunray]

That # tag is straight from IRC which it is really, with a more persistent history.

Surely if you tell everyone what your doing minute by minute, and they are sad enough to read it, why bother going out, there will be precious left to say to each other.

 

[gnoriac]

Just an extension of celebrity culture crap rather than genuine social networking?

After I saw Twitter in use, I realised the difference was that, while IRC had all participants equal, Twitter implements a distilled version of many problematic aspects of blogging. Namely, a one-to-many broadcasting system that serves the needs of high-attention individuals, combined with an appeal to low-attention individuals that the details of one's life matter to an audience.

The "A-list" phenomenon, where a few sources with a large readership dominate the information flow on a topic, was particularly stark.
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Twitter is low-level celebrity for the chattering class. And the pathologies of celebrity are all on display, including the exploitative industries that prey on the human desire to be heard and noticed.

Seth Finkelstein

 

[kyser_soze]

Hmm, obviously Seth's own tweets don't get much love then...

Let me start by confessing I do have a Twitter account. But I won't be fooled again. That is, I refuse to once more play the attention-seeking game, where everyone enriches the contest runner and surrounding marketers for the privilege of aspiring to be one of the very few big winners.

Yep. Toys out the pram, SOP for his micro-column...