I see Twitter as more of a broadcast medium than a chat client, but of course it could be both.
Think of it as a blog with smaller updates. For instance, I use it for Cashboard as a system status update. I also use it to alert customers to development efforts as they happen. http://twitter.com/cashboard I do have a personal twitter account which is indeed a bit more "cliquey" as you describe. For the time being I'm updating it as an experiment, seeing if it increases traffic to my site, blog, or anything else. -------------------- seth - subimage llc ----- http://sublog.subimage.com ----- Cashboard - Estimates, invoices, and time tracking software - for free! http://www.getcashboard.com ----- Substruct - Open source RoR e-commerce software. http://code.google.com/p/substruct/ On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everybody. > > So, I finally broke down and am starting to get into twitter.. But > there is still one big problem in my mind, sort of usability issue. > > Here's the situation: > > - I'm following user123 > - user123 is not following me > - i post a link to an article that user123 would be very interested > in based on our conversations or user123's feed > - user123 never sees it unless I @user123 the tweet > > this, to me, points to a break down in twitter as a sort of "chat" > client... it means that all conversations could be very one sided. As > a new twitter user I only have 19 people following me, but I'm > following 50... that means that most of the people's posts that I'm > reading (and are informing my posts) aren't seeing mine. This also > makes it feel a little cliquey.. There are a number of people all > following each other, having conversations. In order to participate > fully you'd have to be followed by all those people... > > Does that make any sense? Has anybody else had this same sort of > communication breakdown on twitter? How does this effect the use of > twitter as an IxDA communication medium? > > (ps. sorry to bring this up again :) ) > > -- > Matt Nish-Lapidus > work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com > -- > personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > twitter: emenel > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
