Comments on: Thinking about Twitter and addas

By: JP

JP — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:16:50 +0000

:-) sometimes we think we’re explaining things to 10-year olds. As you say, they understand already. The people we land up explaining to is ourselves.

By: Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:23:17 +0000

Nice thought-provoking post, as always. Fortunately, these days, I don’t think you have to work too hard to explain these things to a 10 year old. This generation expects any and all resources (especially games and interactive groups such as “Club Penguin”) to be online. It’s the way they’re learning to live.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:39:18 +0000

Adda for the aantel? :-)

By: Mark Pennington

Mark Pennington — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:28:10 +0000

I also agree, well in principal with twitter. It’s a great way of communicating with people you know, but I do find that sometimes you have to trawl through a lot of rubbish to find valued information. It can get abused by people; maybe it’s just the company I keep.

Overall, a great tool and it’s great to integrate and play about it.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:23:56 +0000

thanks for your comments everyone. Ayan, you should set up a business selling the prints above. You have a great gift. I know I would buy them! Seriously.

By: Ayan Khasnabis

Ayan Khasnabis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:14:31 +0000

After so many days, I could read the post. I do not know much about twitter. But your post is very interesting indeed which forced me to open twitter on a separate tab of IE.

Will do a bit research… :)

And keep writing mate..

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:54:40 +0000

I think you have summed it up well here with these 2 photos! I have been using twitter for nearly 6 months now but still would have no idea how to explain it in a couple of sentances!

By: Raghav Gupta

Raghav Gupta — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:47:56 +0000

Love the pix but disagree. Most of my twitter followers aren’t ‘friends’ as would be depicted in the picture. That’s more what my Facebook status updates & activity are like. I find Twitter to be a bit more tribal. Everyone has a tribe that they speak to and interact with but at different levels. Still don’t know how to explain to a 10-yr old.

By: DE

DE — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:49:02 +0000

When I first used Twitter, it was a collection of people I knew (those I followed)

Now most of my time is spent reading tweets based around subjects (# tagged ‘channels’, or just keywords), so as an example, but without elucidation, I currently follow

gaza
#cloudinterop
tweetdeck
spelunky
#coml

Maybe its still an adda, but more focused on content than connection.

By: Laurence Lock Lee

Laurence Lock Lee — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:39:35 +0000

Hi JP, I was facilitating a session on Governance at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Sydney that you spoke to via video. This is my second presentation at an E2.0 event (the other being in Italy last June). Both events were marked by intense twittering, twitpics etc… but I still didn’t quite “get” it, but from my blog post above I’m starting to see that the key is in “questions & answers” more so than what you are currently doing.

On a related note your talk resonated with me and the ideas I will soon have published here … http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33275&v=tableOfContents
I thought to contact you and ask if you would be interested in being a pre-publication reviewer. You kindly gave us your Twitter ID so I am following you and intended to send you a direct tweet. I found that to be able to do that I need you to follow me. I note that you do try to reciprocate but I can see the number of followers and followees you have is enormous. So I thought I would try this channel. I know its a little more public but from what I am being told by my E2.0 buddies, they are starting to go off e-mail in favour of Web 2.0 channels. I keenly await your response :) Failing that … you will probably get an email from me….