DISQUS

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) · 4 months ago

I got here from a Louis Gray share that appeared on Facebook. I can't remember the last time that I used Bloglines, but it must have been several years ago. As both a FriendFeed and a Facebook user, I'm hopeful that the new Facebook employees will be used to spruce up Facebook's interface to make it more suitable for in-depth conversations.

Aaron Berman · 4 months ago

The question the author of the twitter article failed to recognize was the role of enabling technologies. Twitter recieved its hype and major increase in users through the adoption of the iphone. The surge in mobile technologies that will facilitate social exchanges will depend on such things as microblogging between social networks. Microblogging as a technology is on the downhill, people dont have the time to fiddle with that task on top of all their others. However, as they adopt the enabling technology (ie. mobile phones with social technology) the adoption of "social" texting will explode. Look at text messaging. Why on earth would anyone text one to one when they could call one to one. The reason is due to the quick notification or short conversation. This is the same concept with informing a social group. Why text to your phone book when you can tweet on your iphone, palm, nokia, etc. one simple time and everyone in your social network with their mobile device will get the same text like information. I have a twitter account. I never post because when I am on the computer, I dont think about telling people, "I am on the computer". If the day comes, which it will, that I have a mobile phone that can support microblogging, then I damn well will use that service much more often.

Bill Sodeman · 3 months ago

Twitter was conceived as an extension of text messaging, but it's become more than that - it's a platform for authentication and processes. Even if microblogging dies off, we'll still have services like Twitter and laconi.ca that developers can use.

thanhtam88 · 3 months ago

A lot of what I see with twitter now is that people are trying to jump on and use it as a business marketing tool, but they're doing so without a set plan or even purpose. It's not a "if you build it they will come" sort of thing--you have to put a lot of effort if you want to use twitter effectively. You also have to know which accounts are good to follow and which ones will just continuously spam you with stuff.

Every day I have new followers who are probably just bots. I'd love to read articles on how you find _real_ people to connect to on Twitter XD

Bill Sodeman · 3 months ago

I agree - I've been on Twitter for 17 months and I'm still learning new ways to tweet effectively.