Comments on: my increasingly twitter’d world

By: Campbell

Campbell — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:26:54 +0000

Twitter was my intro into social media. I’m hooked. I like the randomness off it and ease of connecting with others. And it’s fun to get tweets from some of my fav bloggers. Cheers.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:14:54 +0000

This post spurred me to resurrect my dormant account and give Twitter one last try (again!) So far, so good — watching the SXSW coverage I’m starting to get a feel for the ‘point’ of it.
I don’t suppose that any friendly creative types have turned Hugh’s Twitter logo into an easy to add widget have they?!

By: woodstock

woodstock — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:04:03 +0000

Hugh, you are such a tease!
[I don’t really use Facebook anymore, but that’s a story for another day].
I echo calls for your thoughts on Facebook. If you have to, twitter it to us

By: gasper

gasper — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:20:00 +0000

hello,
you have been taggued by a quiet but greatful reader from Paris. I am not sure if this is on in the US right now, but the idea is to list 6 (embarrassing) details about yourself and tag 6 of your favorite blog in return.
gasper

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:33:14 +0000

Oh come on Hugh. You got a huge audience for your blog. I love your posts I get in my reader and now you want me to follow you somewhere else?
You already got our attention and permission, don’t neglect us laggards who don’t use twitter
F.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:34:50 +0000

Holy crap Hugh, are we meant to be able to read that twitter page?!!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:07:59 +0000

I actually responded to an entry made about this post but I thought it was a valid contribution to the general thread of debate here:
The general feel I have for services like Twitter is that they provide a very easy and very simple way to get the information and thoughts out there for people who don’t want the responsibility of running a blog, want to avoid the invasive data-mining of the social network and very quickly fire off something witty, something silly, something topical or genuinely answer that all important Twitter question… What are they doing?
It is the amazingly simple user imagined uses for the Twitter service that provide it power, the ease and vigour with which old media companies allowed their fresh blood (The poor people tasked with taking them safely into the dangerous ocean of the new media)to ride the waves or at the very least test the waters with a big toe.
Services that have grown from Twitter constantly appear on very handy blogs like Lifehacker. I personally like the example of TwitterLit which Tweets the first line of books, as a voracious reader the potential for spontaneity in book selections intrigues me… I am amazed by the lines which draw me to a book and those which fall flat.
Then again I didn’t realise I had an opinion worth voicing on the matter. I have not seen as many useful applications of the other services by talented and imaginative users. The other services seem to bloat the issue with audio and video inclusions… I think they miss what makes it so appealing… It is the beauty of the 140 characters and a simple @.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:58:41 +0000

Paul Clarke, to paraphrase Mike Arrington, if you’ve got a better idea, don’t tell me about it, build it!

By: Paul Clarke

Paul Clarke — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:40:03 +0000

»I find people who use Twitter much easier to communicate with< You’re right. And a predisposition to communication is how this network self-selects itself. But shouldn’t communication give a lot of emphasis to communicating with those who are less easy to communicate with? It’s that extension-of-the-network that I find particularly difficult with Twitter. See http://www.emmamulqueeny.com for some interesting debate on this.

By: jill

jill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:35:35 +0000

Only problem-ette with Twitter, which I’ve been using for a while; you can’t DM people who aren’t following you already.
OK, that’s a problem for me and the other stalkers, probably less of a problem for you!

By: David Everitt-Carlson

David Everitt-Carlson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:48:39 +0000

Six months ago I loved FB. Now I’m in rehab. Spent a day in a FB 12 step program and have now deleted all the stoopid Drink, Zombie, Poke apps that were sending me emails. At least LinkedIn doesn’t send you an email every time somebody farts. And Twitter…we’ll see. Feel free to follow me and see if I pass any gas.

By: Ville

Ville — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:02:47 +0000

Hugh, fully understand Yeah, don’t know Jyri personally that well, but what I know he’s a great guy and took time to help out a total stranger back in the day, namely me. I should ask whether Jyri & the guys at Jaiku could make it possible to subscribe to Twitter feeds. Actually will do it right away …maybe you could do the same with the Twitter people if they could make it possible to subscribe Jaiku feeds. Who knows, maybe they look into it

By: Jeffrey Keefer

Jeffrey Keefer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:26:48 +0000

I use Twitter all the time, and used to follow you there for some time. However, I replied to your Tweets and sent you several messages via Twitter but never received a reply. I know you have over 3000 followers on Twitter, and with numbers that large, it makes 2-way communication much more challenging so you probably did not even see my questions or responses. With that said, I will still follow your blog as I can leave a response that I know you will see.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:56:48 +0000

my friends and colleagues use the mobile version of Facebook in a similar way to people using twitter, since it focuses on status updates rather than the spam applications. Many people are updating or checking other people’s status three or four times a day.
However, I realise that FB was not designed for this, so I suspect a migration to a more specialised platform may take place if FB does not update itself to match more closely with this behaviour pattern.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:55:23 +0000

Hugh, What about http://friendfeed.com/gapingvoid? It would be even easier to follow you on Twitter, your blog, flickr, etc. all together