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Similarly with blogs, photostreams, generic web sites, etc. It can all be a PR tool. It can all be banal. It can lob grenades that spark research or discussio
by roc 17y ago
Similarly with blogs, photostreams, generic web sites, etc.
It can all be a PR tool. It can all be banal. It can lob grenades that spark research or discussions or the genuine (unpaid) discovery of a neat product.
Twitter is what you make of it. And you can find pretty much whatever you're looking for.
Though I'm definitely with you on the protocol/provider bit.
- whopa 17y ago"Twitter is what you make of it." If what most people make of it is banal posts and celebrity watching, is it deserving of all the hype?
- roc 17y agoAgain, you could say that of the internet in general. A medium is (un)deserving of 'hype' based on whether it can be used to do anything that appeals to us.
- whopa 17y agoThe Internet in general is not as narrowly scoped as Twitter's feature set, so that is not the same.
- roc 17y agoI don't see how scope is relevant. The argument is: do interesting uses of Twitter exist? If they do, the banal is irrelevant, since you never need to see it to access those interesting uses of Twitter.