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    I am still trying to decide what I am using it for exactly.

    I know I enjoy it, both hearing from my own community of friends and looking in on the public comments of people I find interesting (but don't really know). However, I have not yet settled on how it integrates, other then to separate out people who I get via SMS and people who are in my Twitter Zoo online only.
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      CommentAuthorgabrieli
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.2)
    I use Twitter for everything. It lets people know about my blog posts. It is a tool for me to remember things, RTM. It's a quick way to send multiple people info. It's a social network system. Everyday, I seem to find something else I can do with Twitter. I even update it through Jott sometimes. To limit oneself to only one thing on Twitter seems a waste of such a wonderful tool.
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      CommentAuthorWil
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.3)
    Twitter is a tool that people can use for all sorts of different things. I'm such a fan because it's so vastly different in the hands of different people.

    And if I'm not entertained or informed by someone, I just stop following them.

    The rise of the "Twitter Police," who have taken it upon themselves to decree what Twitter is and is not, and how it should and should not be used was initially annoying, but I think actually illustrates how versatile Twitter is. I seem to recall similar self-appointed guardians of order when blogging began to achieve critical mass. What are those people doing today? I forget.
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    The rise of the "Twitter Police," who have taken it upon themselves to decree what Twitter is and is not, and how it should and should not be used was initially annoying, but I think actually illustrates how versatile Twitter is.

    I dunno, I'm pretty sick of the "how to use twitter" and "how to be a good twitterer" posts from the social software crowd, and they don't seem to be slowing down...
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      CommentAuthorWil
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.5)
    I dunno, I'm pretty sick of the "how to use twitter" and "how to be a good twitterer" posts from the social software crowd, and they don't seem to be slowing down...

    I think we're talking about the same people, or at least the same mentality.

    In my effort to not take an axe to the face of the next person who tells me how I should [blog | twitter | write | whatever] I was looking for something positive in the whole thing, and if Twitter, like blogger or Wordpress or Live Journal or whatever is thought of as a tool, the rise of the Twitter Police could mean that it's flexible and has many uses.

    . . . now that I think about it, an axe to the face would be faster and much more satisfying.
  6.  (239.6)
    An axe to the face IS A POSITIVE ACT.
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      CommentAuthorZ
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.7)
    <blockquote>[..] posts from the social software crowd, and they don't seem to be slowing down...</blockquote> <blockquote>I think we're talking about the same people, or at least the same mentality.</blockquote>

    I think these 'same people' might need to get some fresh air and a sense of humour.

    I've only had one person get annoyed at me for not replying to them personally via Twitter. I didn't start grinding an axe at them, but I'll admit it hadn't occurred to me I was using Twitter 'incorrectly' and thought it was a rather presumptuous thing to say (especially since it isn't their website, and they don't have to subscribe to my feed if they don't like it).

    Maybe the lesson here is that social networking tools are for people who want to be social?

    - Z
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    I don't know that Twitter really supports an "it's this not that" reading... Honestly, I use it for both, and I know a lot of people who get a lot of use out of it precisely as a "talking at" function...


    Agreed, and I said so in the first sentence of he same post.
    I'm really just talking out loud about what I think the power of the tool will be once the novelty wears off...

    @Wil, sorry if you took offense. As I said, it's just my personal opinion on the advantages Twitter has over other media. If you disagree, I'm all ears to hear why...

    I know I'm new around here folks, but I do honestly try to say what I mean...
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      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.9)
    @wil: I have known of your bloggery. Consider yourself followed now. Mostly as axefacing someone is hilarious.
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    Actually, Drew, you said both:

    I'd say the Twitter is in the eye of the beholder. It's certainly far too early to say it's "X" with any degree of certainty...

    ... For my $0.02, one of the biggest advantages of Twitter is that it's a tool for "talking with" instead of "talking at" people.


    I'm just going to assume you're on drugs, like the rest of you Bay Area hippies.
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      CommentAuthorZ
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.11)
    Hey!
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    HIPPIE
    • CommentAuthorvg
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.13)
    There's some truth to that, actually. I get called a dirty hippie fairly regularly.
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      CommentAuthorAriana
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.14)
    Don't fret it, Z -- he's the self-proclaimed wise old man of the forest, so I don't imagine he believes he's got room to use "hippie" as anything remotely slanderous...
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    I'm just going to assume you're on drugs, like the rest of you Bay Area hippies.

    It's a fair cop.
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      CommentAuthorZ
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008 edited
     (239.16)
    <blockquote>HIPPIE</blockquote>
    Bah.
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      CommentAuthorZ
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
     (239.17)
    <ul><blockquote><strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">(CNN) --</a></strong> James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.

    Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator Mohammed Maree were arrested April 10.

    On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.

    The message only had one word. "Arrested."
    </blockquote></ul>
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    @Z

    I read about this. Nice, huh?
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      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
     (239.19)
    Yeah a journalist friend of mine turned me to it as it was happening. Pretty amazing, but what a fuckwit way to run a country's security. From what I understand the whole thing was bogus to begin with.
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      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
     (239.20)
    Also I just followed a few of you... just so's you know. ;)

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