So, despite my working for one of the best hosting companies in the world, I haven’t been much of an early adopter for a lot of the Web 2.0 technologies out there. Hell, I can’t even keep my blog updated, and it’s one of the “first” and most straight forward inroad into this world of social networking. Anyway, there’s a lot out there. So, in order to get myself caught up and such, I signed up for a Twitter account on Friday.
It’s hard to describe exactly what it is, but think of it as blogging with severe A.D.D. You get 140 characters to speak your mind and often times, this generates replies by those who “follow” you. You chose people to follow was well. So, you start to build a rolling list of comments made by people all over the world. There are any number of disjointed conversations for you to take part in, and when you explore new people to follow, you get to see who they are following – thereby increasing the potential to add to the pool of comments you get. It’s kind of like the digital version of people watching at a bar in the middle of a Las Vegas casino.
Anyway, I’ve enjoyed it. Hopefully this will get me to post more thoughts here (the kind that need more than 140 characters). I felt like sharing. Check it out if you haven’t before. Hopefully, I’ll see you there!
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Tags: interent, social netowrking, web 2.0
I think the most accurate description of twitter is to liken it to away messages on IM. You know, everybody comes up with a clever new away message every five minutes. Even though this meant you were actually sitting right there on IM, thus negating the “away” part. The other half of it is that everybody would constantly patrol their buddy lists checking friends’ away messages to see what’s new — also every five minutes.
At least this is how it was for me from middle-school to college on AIM. The same thing happened after Facebook came out (status-stalking). What a great way to waste time. At least with Twitter it’s more interactive. And the neat things people have done with the API, like controlling their home lighting… [http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/twittering_your_home.html]
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