So ashamed at myself. After resisting the mass hysteria surrounding Twitter, I finally succumbed and signed up. Here’s the post mortem:
- Met Biz Stone, the creator, last year. Nice guy, pretty interesting.
- For a while, news has been breaking first through Twitter, and events are covered live this way. I’m a very DIY guy. I like to get to the bottom of things, and find things out as directly from the source as possible. If I can avoid extraneous layers of coverage and processing, like TechCrunch, so much the better
- I like aggregating what’s being said into a single field. It creates unique contexts that, whilst usually serve no purpose (perhaps even obfuscate the meaning of a piece of information), sometimes, it can magically bring a whole new context and meaning to data. I wish my email, Twitter, Facebook friend feed, and what interesting Twits have to say, were all aggregated (as long as the tool was clever in helping me spend my ‘attention credits’.
- For a while, I’ve been thinking. So many people use it to communicate, it must be a decent communication tool.
- It looks as though it’s going to develop into a better mode of communication, and a successor to the “perfect mode that never took off”, IM
- Double sparks tonight pushed me over the edge.
- I hate having to put a subject on emails (I’ve been sending a lot of ‘ping’ emails recently). It’s just not relevant sometimes. A better system would be sending messages with tags as descriptors, instead of a subject.
- I was handed a business card where the person’s twitter handle was written instead of their email address (plus their website and phone number). A stupid move, but impressive/symbolic. Seems the bandwagon is just going too fast to ignore.
So, without further ado: https://twitter.com/phbradley
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