[lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Thu Aug 13 09:31:29 PDT 2009


On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> But that would be in a social context. Broadcasting the news to
> scores/hundreds/thousands that you are having a sandwich ...

You don't have to. Twitter has a protected mode:

Visit twitter.com -> Settings:


> [ ] Protect my tweets
> Only let people whom I approve follow my tweets. If this is checked,
> you WILL NOT be on the public timeline. Tweets posted previously may
> still be publicly visible in some places.
>

But don't get me wrong, I can (and do love to) pooh-pooh with the best of the old farts. I used to constantly wonder what the purpose of Twitter is, but there is one thing that warms the heart of an old man like me: to some extent, Twitter breaks the "all your data and UIs are belong to us" models of social networking and cloud computing, returning to the more powerful, liberating, distributed model that TCP/ IP and end-to-end enabled for us all.

--ravi



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