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

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Aug 13 10:40:00 PDT 2009


On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Voyou wrote:


> But surely that "inexplicable" post about sugar snap peas is as much an
> invitation to conversation (about sugar snap peas) as asking "Do you
> like sugar snap peas?" would be.

That makes a lot of sense. And then it would also make sense that it was constantly streaming in through your phone, to be ignored or acted on as the mood of the moment moved you. You seem to be suggesting that the key to understanding this part of twitter is that it is a set of alerts for available chats, part of a twitter-phone system.

You Twitterers out there -- do you actually call people on this basis? Because you're in the mood to chat, and because of their tweet you know this person is up for it too?

Michael



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