Comments on: Twitter and real life

By: laurent

laurent — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:37:15 +0000

Probably true.
I closed my account yesterday anyway

By: Will Adam

Will Adam — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:22:26 +0000

You say that “I still have a hard time finding a point of being on the receiving end of an unfiltered brain-dump.” Perhaps you need to select who you follow more carefully?

By: WebUrs

WebUrs — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:27:08 +0000

I am not sure why this matters at all, so some people use it others do not all we care about is if our customers use it or not:

http://commetrics.com/?p=4

For us it is a great tool indeed and no we do not navel gaze around Silicon Valley but the Swiss mountains instead ;-)

By: laurent

laurent — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:42:59 +0000

At least talking about Twitter is a sure way to get comments and reactions, it’s still a question generating tons of passion in our community. Twitter is the Apple of web apps?

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Who Cares About Twitter? » The Buzz Bin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:34:15 +0000

[...] has received so much press and start-up hype because it’s largely used by a community of influencers, which is fueling its growth. According to top tech bloggers, media [...]

By: Dannie Jost

Dannie Jost — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:28:08 +0000

hmm… Laurent I think that you make some valid points about twitter in this post. My approach is to use it in a very casual to bordering on rude manner, but then I also would not put myself in with the early adopters crowd. I like Mark Wubben’s expression of it being a “Forgetful Interface” as that is how I use it depending on mood and whim. Right now it is a hodgepodge of some interesting and some very trivial info being broadcast by people whom I happen to know within a context that is web 2.0-centric. The rest of the world around me could not give a damn about twitter and if I would start talking about it… they would consider it evidence for me having lost my marbles.
It has however already happened that it was the only way to reach somebody whom I was trying to reach as I did not have his mobile number. However the whole of twitter as I use it, is at best unreliable as I myself do not receive twitts on my mobile as I find that too disruptive. I do not read every single twitt from my followers… but sometimes I look in to see what the rest of the world is doing. That said, I do not even read the local newspaper, and right now am waiting for something smart to deal with RSS feeds.

By: Andre Ribeirinho

Andre Ribeirinho — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:42:45 +0000

Email is hard enough to keep up with and it’s asynchronous . Paying attention to a real time updated list of messages requires synchronization with my mind and I can only do that with one thing at a time. Normally it’s work or love related.

By: nicolas

nicolas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:34:51 +0000

damn, I should follow your twitts more carefully Laurent. I just noticed you were in Lausanne this afternoon, we could have had a drink in the real life :)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:07 +0000

Maybe use of Twitter or Facebook-Status will increase, as soon as more people have internet access on their mobile phones.

I see the use of status-messages in keeping in touch with friends. Read more at my blog:
http://newsofthefuture.net/index.php?/archives/17-Pownce-mobile-communication-of-the-future.html

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:17:27 +0000

I tend to agree – that’s what I was trying to say here: http://tinyurl.com/4mng78