I'm a fucking Luddite so I don't have one.
I'm glad I don't know what that is.
I'm glad I don't know what that is.
It's the obnoxious bastard son of IMing and blogging and forwarding shitty emails that nobody wants to read.
I'm glad I don't know what that is.
It's the obnoxious bastard son of IMing and blogging and forwarding shitty emails that nobody wants to read.
I defriended everyone on Facebook and LiveJournal who were forwarding their Twitter feeds.
The weird thing is that Twitter is seen by the Web 3.0 cognoscenti as like, bigger than MySpace and Facebook combined, and will eventually replace e-mail...I have no idea why.
:bow twitter :bow2
Twitter's like the Matrix: you can't be told why it's good, you have to experience it for yourself.
Also a lot of people think it's overhyped and crappy.
http://spin.com/articles/exclusive-limited-edition-joy-division-zune-player-revealed
(http://spin.com/sites/spin.com/files/imagecache/huge_page_view/sites/spin.com/files/joy-division-zune.jpg)
Well, I need one of these.
http://digg.com/music/Exclusive_Limited_Edition_Joy_Division_Zune_Player_Revealed
digg this
spread the word :o
Sorry -- I'm holding out for the New Order iPod.
Spread the word? Why? They are only making a few hundred, and I want one. The fewer people that know, the better.
Twitter's like the Matrix: you can't be told why it's good, you have to experience it for yourself.
Also a lot of people think it's overhyped and crappy.
I have experienced it. It doesn't do anything that I couldn't already do.
Twitter's like the Matrix: you can't be told why it's good, you have to experience it for yourself.
Also a lot of people think it's overhyped and crappy.
I have experienced it. It doesn't do anything that I couldn't already do.
I think that's the wrong way of looking at it really. There are many ways to do a lot of things--for example, people had personal sites before there was blogging software, people read blogs before there was RSS and feed readers, people could post videos before there was YouTube, etc. Twitter's a simple and effective means to broadcast essentially throwaway comments, updates, etc, that, while it could be done via other software, is just a specialized means--and more importantly, network--to do so.
Twitter's like the Matrix: you can't be told why it's good, you have to experience it for yourself.
Also a lot of people think it's overhyped and crappy.
I have experienced it. It doesn't do anything that I couldn't already do.
I think that's the wrong way of looking at it really. There are many ways to do a lot of things--for example, people had personal sites before there was blogging software, people read blogs before there was RSS and feed readers, people could post videos before there was YouTube, etc. Twitter's a simple and effective means to broadcast essentially throwaway comments, updates, etc, that, while it could be done via other software, is just a specialized means--and more importantly, network--to do so.
But blog software and video make their respective tasks much easier. Twitter really doesn't.
How does Zune Pass work?
You are basically leasing the music you download right? So, how do they get it off your hdd? Does it corrupt like the movies off XBLM?
I still don't see the point. If using it in conjunction with a chat program, changing your chat profile has the same--if not better--functionality than Twitter. If the people you are trying to communicate do not use chat, but do use email, email definitely provides better functionality than Twitter.
I have "experienced" it. I don't find it useful. I can't, offhand, think of any usage scenarios where it would be more convenient or useful than any of the mediums it feebly emulates.
I'm just saying these are some scenarios where I've found it useful. Not really sure why you'd say in those situations emailing a group of people would be easier, but hey whatever. Blogging, Facebook, etc are novelties too, but fill certain niches well enough that they're ubiquitous.
No, email is more difficult in the sense that there's a larger barrier to entry to subscribing and unsubscribing, not to mention creating and maintaining broadcast CC: lists; also there's a useful separation of content between large-scale and presumably more important information (email) and smaller-scale content ala txt messaging (twitter)
spoiler (click to show/hide)Semantic differences are meaningful differences :P[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)Semantic differences are meaningful differences :P[close]spoiler (click to show/hide)but that doesn't explain why they need different mediums.[close]
Man, from your conversation this twitter thing sounds awful.
tvc, you have 18,480 posts - you're twittering already and you're just too grumpy to admit it! ;)Or maybe all those twitter people are just TVCing
tvc, you have 18,480 posts - you're twittering already and you're just too grumpy to admit it! ;)
tvc, you have 18,480 posts - you're twittering already and you're just too grumpy to admit it! ;)
Bingo. And every time you post a "what should I watch tonight, cunts" etc, you're twittering too (couldn't you just email that??)
Being inundated with features isn't always a good thing, as you already know IIRC from your quest to get a black-everything-else-out text editor. Again (not sure why you refuse to accept the premise), Twitter is good for what it does--microblogging--and has a large community surrounding it which gives it value (network effect). The reason you're searching for other formats, other programs, etc, is not the fault of microblogging itself, it's you approaching it from the perspective of not wanting to microblog in the first place, and trying to search for reasons to justify microblogging invalid as a medium. "If I want to send a message to people, I'll email them" as an answer to technology involving communication invalidates blogging and message board posting as well--that's my point in bringing up message boards in the first place (aside: OT boards are "organized?" They're sorted by topic, but otherwise no--where's the organization in the Outside Link thread?) Anyway, Twitter == freedom; TVC == against Twitter, ergo against freedom.
Yeah but it's still under your control--you don't need to tell everyone where you are, what you're eating, how hard you're straining to poop, etc. But if you have a good network of friends / followers, it's a good medium to broadcast messages to the group, for times when you wouldn't necessarily want to email a whole bunch of people (f/e today I mentioned a frustration with a certain API I was using, and a former coworker pointed me to something that helped; this is something I'd never have thought of emailing a bunch of developer contacts over, nor was it something mission-critical that warranted a large amount of research, but I was definitely grateful for the assist)Again, I agree. I personally don't get it.</oldman>
Sorry can't hear you, I'm too busy using Twitter to save people's lives:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/05/twitter.maree/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
:bow Twitter! :bow2 :bow Freedom! :bow2
Again (not sure why you refuse to accept the premise), Twitter is good for what it does--microblogging--and has a large community surrounding it which gives it value (network effect).
"If I want to send a message to people, I'll email them" as an answer to technology involving communication invalidates blogging and message board posting as well--that's my point in bringing up message boards in the first place (aside: OT boards are "organized?" They're sorted by topic, but otherwise no--where's the organization in the Outside Link thread?)
I hear you. I was an oldman for a while about txt messaging for a long time, but now it's almost all I do. I have a Facebook page, but really don't see the point and likely won't ever (a little ironic, considering I was a producer and developer for one of the biggest pre-MySpace social networks back in '00). It's cliche, but the older I get the less I feel the need to disrupt my personal momentum with technologies I can't immediately see helping me fix a specific problem. *shrug*
TVC, with all due respect you have zero understanding of what you're talking about. What does microblogging better, specifically? That has a better network, and just as usable if not more usable / flexible APIs? Facebook? No replies, no direct messages, no subscribing-at-will.
Email? You routinely blast-email your contact list? If my junk mail filter didn't catch you, I'd put you there myself; plus, who is going to volunteer to be on your mailing list?
Wordpress? A blunt object for a small job, plus what are you going to do, put the RSS in your feedreader, for microcontent? The only thing that comes close are other microblogging formats, but they don't have the network.
Tell me, because I found your response interesting--when you're being arrested, in your experience what would be easier: sending a text message to one contact number, or opening up an email client somehow, compiling a mass cc: listing, having it connect and sending an email?
Text messaging or email via cell phone.