March 14, 2007 at 12:44PM Twitter: can somebody explain the point (or attraction) behind it?
I’m really quite puzzled. It doesn’t seem like anything that you can’t do in a forum, weblog, or IM.
I’m really quite puzzled. It doesn’t seem like anything that you can’t do in a forum, weblog, or IM.
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1 On March 14, 2007 at 13:14, James Britton wrote:
by the way...I get an error when clicking on the RSS icon in Firefox address bar. Do you have a blog feed?
2 On March 14, 2007 at 14:05, elly parker wrote:
It’s the portability of the concept. Forums and blogs are good, but you need to be online. When I log out of the laptop for a while, twitter switches over to sending the twits to my phone instead - perfect for a day away from the computer...
3 On March 14, 2007 at 14:29, Keith wrote:
Ah, sound. Cheers, lads. Not entirely sure I’d use it myself (downtime can be good), but I might take a proper look at it some time.
Thanks for the pointing out the RSS feed problems, James. I think I must’ve inadvertently removed the piece of code that tells the browser that the RSS feed is, well, and RSS feed. I’ll tweak the code to fix that embarrassing wee bug.
4 On March 14, 2007 at 15:02, James Corbett wrote:
It defies explanation Keith (and God knows I’ve tried! ;-)
It’s just one of those things you’ll have to ‘try before you buy’. Some love it, some hate it. Sometimes I love it and sometimes I hate it.
5 On March 14, 2007 at 15:52, Bernie Goldbach wrote:
If your world is Bebo, your playlist is MySpace and you fancy getting texts from around the world, you’ll permit Twitter on your phone. Some have jumped to Twitter before ever experiencing group text so it’s a big deal for them to find text convergence on a phone, via IM and the web.
6 On March 15, 2007 at 10:42, Keith wrote:
Ok, so Twitter is basically bunch of centralised tumbleblogs that you can SMS posts to. I dunno, I think I’d rather put a feed aggregator on my phone, merge my weblog and linklog software, tag such posts with ‘aside’ and allow people to subscribe to tag-specific feeds.
I think I get the point, but I don’t really see what advantage over all the stuff that already exists in my weblog software (or will do as soon as I finish my port to RoR and finally do something useful with talideon.eu).
7 On March 15, 2007 at 10:51, Keith wrote:
And just in case somebody’s wondering, I’m not a shill for Michele. Personally, I think both Michele and Damien are going a bit over the top as far as Twitter goes, even if I still don’t quite see the attraction myself.