Apropo Twitter, I've been studying it and other lifestreaming apps
(swurl, friendfeed, tumblr, dipity, soup, etc) recently and I'm really
curious about how people use it over time.
Of all the social media apps out there, twitter more than most seems
to have hit a certain nerve. A lot of folks just don't take to it at
all. Perhaps because it provides little feedback on who out there is
paying attention. Others I've spoken to feel self-conscious posting to
it. Many think it's a great idea but admit that they never read it.
For some it's virtually an ongoing chat -- and for others it's a self-
marketing tool.
People call it a micro-blogging tool but really I think it's an open
chat -- it strikes me as speech-based not as writing-based. And it
seems to me an example of how social software can "work" even when
from a software perspective they "fail." (Social media work on the
basis of social (use) practices, not operational/functional/feature
efficiency.) To wit, twitter does two things to conversation that are
upside down and in reverse:
--the speaker does not address her audience, but rather is selected by
her audience (the thing with followers)
--the speaker's message appears in a fictional thread: it is shown
alongside posts from those she is following, not those she is
addressing. Sometimes I wonder whether this illusion proves that
social media design is psychological!
I'm looking into how time-based social media set up different design
challenges to those of page-based media and would love to know how
your use has changed over time. Specifically,
--has it tailed off?
--do you read fewer tweets than you did when you started?
--has it meaning for you changed as you have adapted to it?
--do you see using it for a long time, or has it been a curiosity of
social media?
Twitter and other "social presence" apps are fascinating, and seem to
point to a genre of social media based more on the feed than on the
profile or the graph.
What do you all think?
--adrian
twitter.com/gravity7
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Fred Beecher wrote:
To me, Twitter is like sitting down at a big table full of other IxD
types
and a few regular friends, doing the work we need to do, and
chatting all
the while.
On 10/22/08, Melissa Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interested in finding out who's using Twitter and what for –
(Personal updates? Reinforcing/building
communities? Work related announcements?) and if anyone has found
novel,
possibly unintended, uses for the product.
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