On 20/8/08 11:48 AM, "David Malouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So why does it work? What makes Twitter work? I'm not interested in > what makes it fail. I'm interested in analyzing the positives. > > What makes twitter work where other micro-blogs fall short? I find I'm able to micro-post a plea to the lazy web and get back sensible answers at any time of the day - the ease of replying (vs going to a web page and composing a comment reply to a blog post) probably helps. http://twitter.com/ericscheid/statuses/892199752 http://twitter.com/ericscheid/statuses/892256637 http://twitter.com/ericscheid/statuses/891169993 The fact that all the updates from the people you follow is just lumped together into one stream, with no overhead to micro-manage .. while I follow a hundred or more twitterers I wouldn't add the same into my feed reader because my feed reader insists on displaying each feed source with it's own heading, post count, etc; and also presents me the opportunity to exhaust my attention by arranging (and re-arranging) the feeds into little hierarchical taxonomies. The multi-platform aspect of twitter is also a winner. If you only engage with twitter via conventional web browsers then you're only getting a small slice of the bigger picture. Able to read/write on mobile web devices is not too unsurprising, having direct messages sent to your phone as an SMS is/was mondo useful (small furor here in oz because they just turned that off). e. ________________________________________________________________ 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
