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

[Addison Windwall]

People who criticise Twitter "just don't get it." If one is not among the
early adopters who were able to wordlessly intuit the significance of
Twitter prior to its popular ascent, what there is to "get" about Twitter
requires 140+ characters to explain:  Twitter's episteme cannot be tweeted.
Simultaneous to the development of this structural limitation, dedicated
Twits also report that they are  abandoning longer forms - blog posts, RSS
feeds of other's blog posts, and mailing list participation.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Bob Morris <bob.morris at gmail.com> wrote:


> It took me a while to get Twitter. It's good for fast streams of news and
> scanning, quick msgs, and publishing links to blog posts (via Twitterfeed)
>
> Friendfeed lets you aggregate your feeds and sources from everywhere into
> one place, with robust commenting, groups, ability to post photos, etc.
>
> I sometimes get more comments on Facebook to a blog post than on the blog
> itself. You too probably.
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I like Facebook, and am a frequent user. It may be the only place in the
> > world where I've got more than 1,000 friends! Twitter, though, I just
> don't
> > get.
> >
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