Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Twitting
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I must admit that I quite like Twitter. It's used by some in perhaps silly ways and the occasional spam is annoying but easy to stop. I was sure it would be foolish and trivial - after all, how could anything useful or interesting be said in 140 characters? And yet, how much I like it.
It's quite like passing-by conversations, similar to something I also like where I work - passing many people during the day and exchanging observations and thoughts with them. I'd have thought it would be small talk but it's just quick, not necessarily small. That's the thing that's such a pleasant surprise in person at work and at Twitter. The world and one's awareness are both expanded a bit. And I'm not naïve and yes I know people can masquerade as people they're not and if a dog can type he could impersonate anyone but some voices ring true and there's a certain amount of trust required and you have to choose carefully but you have to do that in real life too. At work it's a function of where one works and who else works there, meaning someone else did the selection for you to some extent and at Twitter it's a question of who one's followers/ees are.
NTL, I think it's cool to become aware of things I might not otherwise know about and to get observations I might not have made on my own and to learn details about subjects I might not have got to on my own or at least not at that moment.
It's quite like passing-by conversations, similar to something I also like where I work - passing many people during the day and exchanging observations and thoughts with them. I'd have thought it would be small talk but it's just quick, not necessarily small. That's the thing that's such a pleasant surprise in person at work and at Twitter. The world and one's awareness are both expanded a bit. And I'm not naïve and yes I know people can masquerade as people they're not and if a dog can type he could impersonate anyone but some voices ring true and there's a certain amount of trust required and you have to choose carefully but you have to do that in real life too. At work it's a function of where one works and who else works there, meaning someone else did the selection for you to some extent and at Twitter it's a question of who one's followers/ees are.
NTL, I think it's cool to become aware of things I might not otherwise know about and to get observations I might not have made on my own and to learn details about subjects I might not have got to on my own or at least not at that moment.
Labels: impressions, twitter
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