http://hummingbird604.com/2008/06/07/self-deprecating-post-about-twitter-and-me/ The personal blog of a Vancouver-based educator in environmental issues Wed, 23 May 2012 06:23:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://hummingbird604.com/2008/06/07/self-deprecating-post-about-twitter-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1093 More (or less) Twitter? Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:15:30 +0000 http://hummingbird604.wordpress.com/?p=932#comment-1093 [...] was reading a blog post (after randomly finding it on a twitter feed that I don’t follow but a friend does - [...] [...] was reading a blog post (after randomly finding it on a twitter feed that I don’t follow but a friend does – [...]

]]> http://hummingbird604.com/2008/06/07/self-deprecating-post-about-twitter-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 Richard Smith Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:48:04 +0000 http://hummingbird604.wordpress.com/?p=932#comment-1091 I started to respond to Luc here but it got out of control and eventually had to be moved into its own blog post, over on mobscure (http://mobscure.com/richardsmith/more-or-less-twitter), but thanks humingbird/luc for prompting me to do some more thinking about twitter. I started to respond to Luc here but it got out of control and eventually had to be moved into its own blog post, over on mobscure (http://mobscure.com/richardsmith/more-or-less-twitter), but thanks humingbird/luc for prompting me to do some more thinking about twitter.

]]> http://hummingbird604.com/2008/06/07/self-deprecating-post-about-twitter-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 luc Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:02:11 +0000 http://hummingbird604.wordpress.com/?p=932#comment-1092 I don't understand the addiction to Twitter. It seems that the public hasn't adopted the service; ot's used only between bloggers. They need constant stimulation in the form of a constant flow of updates to feel in the game. RSS feeds don't update frequently enough, so bloggers came up with a mechanism to be pinged every 5 minutes. Will the future of human communication be reduced to high frequency 5 words sentences instead of 3 paragraphs of well thought content once a day? I don’t understand the addiction to Twitter. It seems that the public hasn’t adopted the service; ot’s used only between bloggers. They need constant stimulation in the form of a constant flow of updates to feel in the game. RSS feeds don’t update frequently enough, so bloggers came up with a mechanism to be pinged every 5 minutes.
Will the future of human communication be reduced to high frequency 5 words sentences instead of 3 paragraphs of well thought content once a day?

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