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For me, the use of Twitter is: 1. I see X happening when I'm walking around (protesters, fireworks, concert, police barricades). 2. I search where I am in Twee
by djacobs 16y ago
For me, the use of Twitter is:
1. I see X happening when I'm walking around (protesters, fireworks, concert, police barricades).
2. I search where I am in Tweetie.
3. I find out what's going on and, if I'm interested in it, might join.
Twitter is all about discovery. Not communication.
- blasdel 16y agoBut doesn't your 'discovery' use-case rely on a local herd of self-promoting new media douchebags using it to 'communicate'?
- adbachman 16y agoI don't consider the folks from my town (Baltimore) self-promoting new media douchebags. They're people about my age who I know socially doing what they would normally do but stopping to mention it every once in awhile. I don't see it as "hey, hey, look at me!" but I have mellowed out a lot in the last few years, so it's probably just a difference of perspective. I'm optimistic with people I know and pessimistic with people I don't.