Thanks for responding. Part of the reason for the jaiku was an essay on human computer interfaces I want to do as part of a course. I'm wondering about how people control their flow of information, and twitter is one giant flow of bacon (no spam, most of the time).
I'd like to see what tweaks people made to stay on top of things, or if a tweet bankruptcy is allowable.
Just let it wash over you, no need to read all the tweets in your flow. Some twits have a much lower signal to noise ratio than others but you can filter those out visually when needs be. Mind you, if people didn't keep changing their avatars that would be a whole lot easier.
When I was a kid we had a hose in the garden where we played soccer. It went dry one day and I sucked to get the water going. Ended up with a gobful of earwigs who had started nesting there. Eh where was I?
Twitter has been living off a social splurge for years. The party is over though - people are going to become more frugal and cautious with their words. As everyone becomes paralyzed by the fear that someone somewhere is already twittering their exact tweets we enter - the saidit crunch.
RSS feed subs plummet like bank stocks. People flock to the safety of landlines, newspapers, television and the brutish ancient practice of "talking".
I don't think that those used to placing their thought on to RSS feeds will decline. People will still want to talk (I'll get back to you about listening) . Using twitter (et al) to communicate is a different question.
In a sense, I view twitter as an idea repository. Similar to the GTD concept that David Allen (davidco.com) advises people create for themselves - but distributed and articulated with far less rigor. The challenge is how to affect analysis of that distributed idea repository.
What I'd really like is a Signal/Noise dial. Twhirl should be able to determine by my reading patterns what kind of tweets I find most interesting (eg. techie thoughts) and find least interesting (throwaway banter) and allow me to dial up or dial down according to how busy I am, whether I'm on a coffee break, etc. I suppose that's what Steve Gilmor used to refer to as an Attention filter.
Great idea James - I took a long hard cold look at my Twitterstream last week and realised most of it is banter. I've been given very few insights from it as the Noise ratio is off the charts.
Very busy at the moment so I've basically ignored Twitter - not relevant enough and too difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Second that, brilliant idea James. Right now i have to manually do that with tools like tweetdeck, setup a favourites column, add a few columns for searches for keywords you're interested in and voila you've got the everyone feed to read when you have time, and your favourites in a seperate place.
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1 year, 1 month ago by mmbhg
In very small doses.... By limiting the number of people I follow.
1 year, 1 month ago by Adventsparky
I suck the hose when bored or in search of lazyweb answers. I've throttled back my suckage.
1 year, 1 month ago by topgold
twitter sucks? Yes I agree :)
Not matter hoe much I use it, look at it, read it, I still can't get over the lack of the most basic things...
But people use it and thats what matters...an' stuff..
1 year, 1 month ago by runningwithbulls
I hate it when I do juvenile things.
1 year, 1 month ago by topgold
Thanks for responding. Part of the reason for the jaiku was an essay on human computer interfaces I want to do as part of a course. I'm wondering about how people control their flow of information, and twitter is one giant flow of bacon (no spam, most of the time). I'd like to see what tweaks people made to stay on top of things, or if a tweet bankruptcy is allowable.
1 year, 1 month ago by WillKnott
Just let it wash over you, no need to read all the tweets in your flow. Some twits have a much lower signal to noise ratio than others but you can filter those out visually when needs be. Mind you, if people didn't keep changing their avatars that would be a whole lot easier.
1 year, 1 month ago by EirePreneur
I'm in favour of infrequent avatar changes. Definitely makes association easier. We respond very well to visual stimuli after all.
1 year, 1 month ago by alexleonard
When I was a kid we had a hose in the garden where we played soccer. It went dry one day and I sucked to get the water going. Ended up with a gobful of earwigs who had started nesting there. Eh where was I?
Twitter has been living off a social splurge for years. The party is over though - people are going to become more frugal and cautious with their words. As everyone becomes paralyzed by the fear that someone somewhere is already twittering their exact tweets we enter - the saidit crunch.
RSS feed subs plummet like bank stocks. People flock to the safety of landlines, newspapers, television and the brutish ancient practice of "talking".
1 year, 1 month ago by eam0
I don't think that those used to placing their thought on to RSS feeds will decline. People will still want to talk (I'll get back to you about listening) . Using twitter (et al) to communicate is a different question.
1 year, 1 month ago by WillKnott
In a sense, I view twitter as an idea repository. Similar to the GTD concept that David Allen (davidco.com) advises people create for themselves - but distributed and articulated with far less rigor. The challenge is how to affect analysis of that distributed idea repository.
1 year, 1 month ago by chuckboycejr
What I'd really like is a Signal/Noise dial. Twhirl should be able to determine by my reading patterns what kind of tweets I find most interesting (eg. techie thoughts) and find least interesting (throwaway banter) and allow me to dial up or dial down according to how busy I am, whether I'm on a coffee break, etc. I suppose that's what Steve Gilmor used to refer to as an Attention filter.
1 year, 1 month ago by EirePreneur
Great idea James - I took a long hard cold look at my Twitterstream last week and realised most of it is banter. I've been given very few insights from it as the Noise ratio is off the charts.
Very busy at the moment so I've basically ignored Twitter - not relevant enough and too difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.
1 year, 1 month ago by Festoon
Second that, brilliant idea James. Right now i have to manually do that with tools like tweetdeck, setup a favourites column, add a few columns for searches for keywords you're interested in and voila you've got the everyone feed to read when you have time, and your favourites in a seperate place.
1 year, 1 month ago by eske
Well, throw in a dedicated replies tab, and then you're there. Can tweetdeck parse the global or just your own list?
1 year, 1 month ago by WillKnott
I get more from summize and from reading tweets via Freenews than I get from a live stream.
1 year, 1 month ago by topgold
I'm sure most of you did the simple survey http://tinyurl.com/6kqfyh but your comments here are worth their weight in gold
1 year, 1 month ago by WillKnott