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Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?
- mynameishere 20y agoDon't feel like reading that. Here is the headline from twitter's website: "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?" Okay. This sounds like a bad parody of the worst aspects of Web 2.0. I mean: I'm not sure how such silliness can be "TOO good". Is it good at all? Walk around any college campus and you are likely to hear the following half-conversation coming from somebody talking to his cellphone: Person X: Whuzzu? Person X: Not much. Just leaving class. Person X: Yeah, just going to class. Person X: Whuzzu. [click]. How to monetize that? Twitter? Whuzzu?
- Alex3917 20y agoAccording to Mizuko Ito and Howard Rheingold's research, we typically don't telecocoon with more than four or five people. Why would you want to telecocoon with strangers? It makes no sense to me. Maybe I'm just getting old.
- Alex3917 20y agoOh wow, I just made an account to check it out. This thing looks evil. I'm staying as far away as possible.
- sharpshoot 20y agosame reason you blog, or write comments on news.yc = self expression this could be funny things you've just seen your state of mind an announcement a statement of emotion also twitter allows you to have public or private interactions - so your outside twitter may be something different to strangers compared to close friends. Twitter is an extension of our human desire to express ourselves through communication. Its very interesting because of that.
- zkinion 20y agoIt doesn't seem like so bad of an idea. A tad bit idealistic, and ignores the fact that we divide up and layer our society on purpose. We shell ourselves up with people who we see as similar to ourselves, and shut out the rest. Perhaps if there is a way they could apply some method of connecting "random" people based on a whole series of information such as interests/personality.