I see a lot of emotion on Twitter. It's one of the endearing characteristics for me and part of what connecting with people online is all about. If social media was largely about information the experience would be relatively dull.
The more people involved in a thread, the more emotional the experience. my 2 cents worth cheers Paul Roberts On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Howard Rheingold <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'd say that twittering emotions -- or any other specific flavor of > content -- won't happen spontaneously in a group, but emerge for some > reason (often because of leadership) or are explicitly requested, or > modeled. > > Howard Rheingold [email protected] http://twitter.com/hrheingold > http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com > http://vlog.rheingold.com > what it is ---> is --->up to us > > > > On May 15, 2009, at 2:09 PM, MarcD wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > I was having a discussion on Twitter and how content tend to be more > > emotional ( or say: less filtered) than through regular messaging. In > > the case of the discussion, it was a good thing, allowing a project > > manager to flag issues on a project earlier than he would be able to > > otherwise. But beyond this, I am wondering: > > do you tweet emotions, or information, or both? If you tweet emotions, > > what the value for you? for your followers? Could the health of a > > group (as in "good chemistry") be measured by the volume of emitional > > tweets? > > I would think that the tighter the community, the more of these tweets > > you would see, but does anybody has any data on this? > > > > > > > > -- Paul Roberts http://paulroberts.gizapage.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
