Cindy,
I'd love your feedback on the msg i posted to twitter Oct 24 --
because you clearly read tweets with attention, and with a sense of
narrative -- and the person you described is interesting in what they
reveal -- my own posts are not nearly as content rich -- in fact are
often ceremonial or part of a conversation, so they're often missing
in content completely but are instead an agreement or approval, etc.
-- some posters do seem to tweet the handling of interaction, some the
content of their activities, some tweet to share/distribute, and so
on. All tweets seem to at least announce presence and simultaneously
declare availability for interaction -- something necessitated on
twitter because there's no "online now" indication....
cheers,
a
On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Cindy Chastain wrote:
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)
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