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It's really funny watching people use twitter. At the TechCrunch Geek'n'rola they setup a 'back channel', with the #gknr hashtag on twitter. Some guy sat there
by axod 18y ago
It's really funny watching people use twitter.
At the TechCrunch Geek'n'rola they setup a 'back channel', with the #gknr hashtag on twitter. Some guy sat there hitting reload on a browser while we watched new tweets come in with that hashtag.
I know this is the "hip" thing to do, but seriously. This is poor mans webchat. Just use IRC for the love of god.
Using twitter to emulate channels by using a hashtag is just ridiculous.
- swombat 18y agoWell, if you want to compare Twitter and IRC, then you could consider Twitter to be a really neat user interface (both graphical and logical) that allows people to be in a bunch of giant, ad-hoc, asynchronous, high-idling, low-frequency IRC rooms. In other words, it's a different thing. Just because there are similarities doesn't mean it's the same.
- moe 18y agothen you could consider Twitter to be a really neat user interface (both graphical and logical) I think the word you were looking for is "clumsy". Sorry, but polling for replies (manually or through a custom client) doesn't appear "neat" in any way.
- axod 18y agoYou could emulate pretty much all of twitter, with IRC. Just setup a channel to be your 'public posts'. When someone follows you, they just join your channel. Hashtags are just poor mans channels, direct messages obviously... In short, I think it'd be far easier to emulate twitter with IRC, than emulate IRC on twitter.