Comments on: Things I expected to see in Twitter (but haven’t as yet)

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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:40:32 +0000

[...] I’ve decided to begin leveraging Twitter as a source for research and extending my general awareness of the good stuff folks are producing/sharing with/for the community. I try and do Top 5 tweets, but this will be a little different, this will be a wander through information and concepts I never would have found out without Twitter. Thanks to Gaping Void, I found Confused of Calcutta, by JP Rangaswami and navigated my way to what he thought he would find on Twitter. [...]

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Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:47:40 +0000

[...] I’ve decided to begin leveraging Twitter as a source for research and extending my general awareness of the good stuff folks are producing/sharing with/for the community. I try and do Top 5 tweets, but this will be a little different, this will be a wander through information and concepts I never would have found out without Twitter. Thanks to Gaping Void, I found Confused of Calcutta, by JP Rangaswami and navigated my what to Thing he thought he would find on Twitter. [...]

By: Paul Harrington

Paul Harrington — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:11:09 +0000

Hi JP – maybe it’s in the nature of those within the educational networks within Twitter that just about all of your ‘five things you expected’ are actually occuring most of the time – whether it’s invitations to help/collaborate on projects, asking for help or returning help to others – it is a very strong twitter group, growing with the communication :-)

pj23harry

By: JP

JP — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:18:42 +0000

I don’t feel that the mini feed and twitter are the same thing, and I think they need to separate even more. Will explain why in a later post

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:02:15 +0000

You feed your tweets into your Facebook status. I feed my Facebook status into my Twitter-stream, along with my blog posts and Flickr uploads.

Not sure which is better.

(I use http://www.twitterfeed.com for this by the way)

By: shani lee

shani lee — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:09:11 +0000

It was interesting to hear your ideas about what you expected to see happening on Twitter, JP. I would be interested to hear your observations on what you think is happening, if so much of the activity is not falling into the types of activity that you expected.

If people are not responding to the question “what are you doing?” then what are they doing? I see the question as more of an icebreaker, an invitation to join the conversation, with the opportunity to take off to many different places, rather than a relatively closed interrogation.

By: Kerry Buckley

Kerry Buckley — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:07:45 +0000

Of course conventions like L: and @ and ++ are useful, but only if there is some place the novice can go to to find out about such conventions. Otherwise it will become an elitist fad.

There's the twitter-nanoformats page, but that's probably not ideal for novices.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:44:26 +0000

You’re absolutely right, I assume that all these tools work on an always on anytime anywhere any device any form of connection basis.

I know we are not there now, but this must happen. For everyone.

Usage of tools like these, the liquidity of that usage, the utility value created, these are things we need to work out.

But we won’t work them out if we don’t experiment and learn. My biggest fear is that we waste time talking about business models before we understand the new world, and implement the wrong ones in our haste.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:01:55 +0000

JP: I do not use Twitter, but some of my friends do. But I do use Facebook and see an interesting temporal element to the ’status’ element. In other words, the digital persona sometimes takes a while to catch up with the real person, as was evident when a friend’s status said: “Arrived in Athens. Waiting for bags.” for some 13 hours. Long wait, that!

In your CLEAR framework, Location-based updates work to a very different – and hugely varied e.g. asking someone to get a Latte is more real-time than asking someone for a mousemat – temporal space than the others.

This, to me, means that the ubiquity of connectivity is sort of assumed in your framework. Whereas I do not see around me, in London for instance, that ubiquity and mobility of connectivity. Is it possible that within the small, very small, always-on community, this sort of assumption is just self-serving and distracts from the bigger question of ‘how does Twitter make money?’ that many more will be interested in?

Does this make sense?