Hello all, I'm arriving at the party a bit late, but I can't help but respond to William Brall's post, especially the part about about how "The 140 character limit means you can't say much, which means the value of the tweet is in immediate impact."
A few months ago, I responded to a fellow UXer's tweet about how, in his opinion, most tweets were either boring or valueless. A similar complaint to my mind. This might be true, but until you've experienced twitter over TIME, you will not see the value (and pleasure) in the on-going narrative created by twitterers who tweet about a broad range of thoughts, subjects and, yes, feelings. This, of course, applies only to those who tweet in a particular way, but I've found that many people I mutually follow tend to tweet about a range of things that all add up to an interesting personal narrative. For example, I've not only gotten to know someone I once met at a conference better through twitter, but I also learned that he plays the ukulele, likes grilling merguez sausage, is writing a novel in his spare time and has a wicked sense of wordplay. (Can anyone recognize this person?) The next time I saw this person at a conference, not only did I feel like I knew him a bit better, but there was a lot more I wanted to talk about. The more I get to know him, the more I want to know about the stupid cat hijinks as well as his opinions on web apps etc.; because with all this, I get dimension, something we often lose in other, more mono-message, communication formats. As Martin said above, the SUM really is greater than its parts. To me, one of the greatest pleasures of using twitter, apart from growing new friendships and discovering great insight, has been in experiencing the on-going narrative of these same twitterfriends as told through their running posts. I would also add, somewhat preemptively, that the brevity of the posts do not, imho, make for a shallow narrative, but one that is perhaps more poetic---like a synedoche. (But, then, I'm a sucker for this kind of thinking.) It's also not the only value I see in twitter, just one that stands out as fairly unique. Cheers, Cindy (twittering as cchastain) > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Cindy Chastain 917-848-7995 ________________________________________________________________ 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
