[Sorry for late replies, I've got a problem with mail being late and even out of order.]
I think its turned into a sibling of IRC, where folks chat continuously on very specific topics. Hi S/N for me: - I read about asm.js, so tried the official coffeescript gmail group, asking if asm.js might be an eventual target for CS. No response. - This is important for agentscript, so decided to contact Jeremy Ashkanas, the author of CS directly. Twitter was the only option that made sense - He answered within an hour or two, saying that only when asmjs actually was in browsers would it be considered. - This started a small, but very focused conversation between Jeremy and Brenden Eich, JS's creator and CTO of mozilla who is supporting asm.js. I got "cc"d as the originator of the thread. Another example: - My ISP, Joyent, decided to shed all its shared hosting, and transferred those accounts to TextDrive, who they originally acquired to expand into shared hosting originally(!). - Although the transfer was a near miracle .. pretty tough sys-admin task, there was a period of seemingly alarming behavior of my server .. looking like I was possibly hacked. - The forum and other standard means of contact failed, suggesting a possible problem with their servers. - But then I noticed that they had two twitter accounts, one for system status, the other for support. - Between them, I resolved my problems, got my server unlocked, and was on the air quickly. There are others, and my use is pretty focused. I also started building twitter "lists" on topics like JavaScript, TextDrive and so on. But all this got me browsing twitter more than before, and I was surprised just how useful it is. Stephen suggested I look at FlipBoard, the iPad app that aggregates several social media and news sources .. and in twitter's case includes the associated media the tweets refer to (tweets, being short, benefit from this expansion) It seems a pretty valuable tool for twitter. So good S/N does take some work and works best in very focused interest groups. -- Owen On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Robert Holmes <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But twitter is a really different beast and I blush to say that the Info >> Per Square Second is pegged to the max there. > > > I'm intrigued… the few times I've tried Twitter I've found that the signal > to noise ratio is vanishingly small & have abandoned it after a couple of > days. But it sounds like you are finding value. Got some examples of > hashtags where S/N > 0? >
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