Comments on: Another reason why Twitter is so interesting

By: Technology for social causes | Heri does Ruby on Rails and Design

Technology for social causes | Heri does Ruby on Rails and Design — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:08:45 +0000

[...] new _toy_ for the blogosphere world. I even stumbled today upon a post which begun by “‘my obligatory twitter post‘” Is Twitter the new me-me-too service? the myspace for bloggers and web [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:24:51 +0000

This is a stupid post. Twitter is garbage, I don’t ge the hype, it’s not useful, it’s not clever.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:09:47 +0000

Twitter’s popularity is growing so fast, it’s amazing.

By: Twitter has been running really slow, and you can …

Twitter has been running really slow, and you can … — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:54:06 +0000

[...] Bokardo: Twitter’s genius is that it combines the read and write screens. I second. [...]

By: can do <meta> » what’s going to happen here

can do <meta> » what’s going to happen here — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:59:48 +0000

[...] so, what is going on? well, the main buzz since SXSW seems to be all around twitter, from a web app perspective, from a usage perspective, from a business perspective and even from a design perspective. The web app basically provides you with the ability to keep track of your own activities, and others to see what you are up to wherever and whenever. This operates from a PC, IM or SMS input, and is becoming a very ‘habitual’ way of people creating the metadata around there life (in a lift, watching the kids play football etc.) and this is the interesting piece of the business model. what are the extensions of this data? is there something which can be done with this data to enable and assist those who have entered it … keeping track of the past, remembering events and anniversaries etc. [...]

By: Das Phänomen Twitter < Kapitalismus.de

Das Phänomen Twitter < Kapitalismus.de — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:55:31 +0000

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By: Framtider.net

Framtider.net — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:22:03 +0000

[...] Bokardo: Another reason why Twitter is so interesting “An interesting thing about Twitter is that, on the web site, the read page is also the write page. On the very same page that we read aggregated posts from our contacts we write our own posts to them.” (tags: twitter den_sociala_webben joshua_porter bokardo community användbarhet bloggosfären) [...]

By: I’m All Twittered Out (or Why Twitter Fails to Engage Users) at DygiScape

I’m All Twittered Out (or Why Twitter Fails to Engage Users) at DygiScape — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:53:13 +0000

[...] I’m not alone. Many other Web 2.0-aware folks are interested in Twitter and have debated whether or not Twitter will die or have proclaimed this the Web’s diamond in the rough, or are countering both sides and sharing their opinions on Twitter. I concur with the praise of Twitter’s interface. They nailed that one all the way, it’s rather innovative that users can read and post their events on the same page. [...]

By: Twittervision | NeilCauldwell.com

Twittervision | NeilCauldwell.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:30:43 +0000

[...] Another reason why Twitter is so interesting [...]

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:49:46 +0000

Actually Radio 8 did and does that. That’s why we integrated a blogging tool with a news aggregator.

Some people wondered why we integrated a writing tool with a reading tool, you did a good job here of explaining why.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:51:53 +0000

Pauric…yes, a step. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: Si Jobling

Si Jobling — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:11:23 +0000

You’re forgetting the fundamental purpose of Twitter - it’s asking the question “What are you doing?”. Twitter is expecting, more than anything, to get input from the user before the user decides to read the Twitter history. To do this, we need Write capability before the Read feature. Hence, why the text input is the first identifiable feature of the page.

Your point is an interesting concept though.

By: Technology for social causes

Technology for social causes — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:22:04 +0000

[...] The service is perceived as the new trendy tool to have. Any blog, be it a marketing, business, user interface or art blog talk about Twitter, the new toy for the blogosphere world. I even stumbled today upon a post which begun by ‘my obligatory twitter post’. Is Twitter the new me-me-too service? the myspace for bloggers and web designers? [...]

By: heri

heri — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:24:14 +0000

your post is about ajax, right? ajax encourages interaction and user input without having them to go to another page. correct me if i am wrong

on another point, i find it ironic that the title is “another reason why twitter is so interesting” - maybe a post about “why twitter” would be more interesting in the first place. I have yet to see a meaningful post of why I should add twitter to my workflow. RSS feeds already captures a lot of my time and adding continuous information seems like a black hole to me.

By: pauric

pauric — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:04 +0000

“Which is more likely, that a person will post a message to Twitter or that a person will click a link to a different page and then post a message to Twitter? In the second case the person has to do something…we’re adding a task”

Sorry to be pedantic (o; a step is being added, the task is the same. The reason I bring this up is that this definition aids the design goals. If you wanted quantity over quality you reduce the ‘barrier to entry’ if your design called for some degree of noise filtering then you’d increase the steps required for task completion.

The thinking being if someone had something really important to say they’ll work through the higher barrier.