This is a duplicate of a post from last month; you can refer to the identical original if you’d rather, or let me know of a less unpredictable unix blogging client…
Twitter seems to have been gaining a lot of traction in recent times. Originally a side project of Evan Williams, who begat Blogger as a side project of something else lost in time, it was a solution in search of a wider purpose. But what is it, and what itch does it scratch? (More …)
Twitter seems to have been gaining a lot of traction in recent times. Originally a side project of Evan Williams, who begat Blogger as a side project of something else lost in time, it was a solution in search of a wider purpose. But what is it, and what itch does it scratch?
I’d rather say twitter, bitte. It’s opt in; there is no obligation to read or deal with a tweet, as is required with spam email. The decision rests entirely with the recipient. The tweet that seems ephemeral to one person may have meaning with another; what it important with Twitter is that it does not block or build up in a queue (as email or RSS aggregation does) – but that it moves on, is replaced.
slyrabbit 7:54 pm on April 29, 2008 Permalink
so why should we tweet? seems like it’s only used by office drones bored at work or school kids who think anything they say is of interest to everyone. twitter shitter anyone?