14. September 2010 01:12
I know someone that works in social computing - the domain of Twitter, that hates the app. Any discussion of Twitter is met with a growl of disgust.
Jaron Lanier's recent book, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, slams the culture of Twitter feeds and Hive Mind thought.
I don't hate Twitter, but I might use it a little different than other users. Twitter is essentially just a scratch pad. If I am in a meeting and hear something interesting, I might post something on Twitter that I can reference later. At conferences I post to Twitter instead of jotting down notes. This gives me a quick reference any time I want to look back at the conference. I've found it easier to use TweetDeck than a notebook, and I reference it more.
About once a month I check in on my Twitter feed. It gets very boring very quickly. Most of the posts just regurgitate some marketing post or give a shout out to the latest repackaging of the same trend metrics. Look at the posts about Android - millions of posts about Android passing iPhone, very few applying any kind of critical thought to what it means.
So there you go - if you want to look over my shoulder at my scratchpad, its Twitter. I am really only talking to myself, something I wish more people would do.
76399be6-836c-40ff-bcc6-6ea548c2ee92|2|4.0