Comments on: How do you use Twitter? http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/ What's Next? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-228904 Roo Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:23:37 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-228904 You mean something <a href="http://jemstone.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/a-day-in-the-life-of-bbc-radiomusic-and-twitter/" rel="nofollow">like this</a>? You mean something like this?

]]> By: Ian http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-212149 Ian Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:37:52 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-212149 Surely a use for Twitter within the BBC would be to monitor audience feedback. For example of a programe or news item is broadcast you can catch what people are saying about it using the Twitter search API. For example go to the Search and click on advanced search and type in something BBC'ish errrm like eastenders. Hey presto this is what the audience are saying. I heard Apple deploy similar method to find out what customers are saying about their products. They got ahead of the 'iPod Screen Scratch' problems in a similar way. Ian @veilandtrain Surely a use for Twitter within the BBC would be to monitor audience feedback. For example of a programe or news item is broadcast you can catch what people are saying about it using the Twitter search API. For example go to the Search and click on advanced search and type in something BBC’ish errrm like eastenders. Hey presto this is what the audience are saying.

I heard Apple deploy similar method to find out what customers are saying about their products. They got ahead of the ‘iPod Screen Scratch’ problems in a similar way.

Ian
@veilandtrain

]]> By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207822 Roo Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:22:41 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207822 I heard a thing this week: <i>"Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you’d like to know better"</i>, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081225.wwebtossell1226/BNStory/Technology/home" rel="nofollow">Ivor Tossell</a>. Following you now Lydia. Why not. ...and Cait, the comment box is now 500 of Her Majesty's pixels wide. I think that's better. Hopefully someone will let me know if it's stopped working on IE4 or Safari-on-an-iPhone or whatever. I heard a thing this week: “Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you’d like to know better”, Ivor Tossell.

Following you now Lydia. Why not.

…and Cait, the comment box is now 500 of Her Majesty’s pixels wide. I think that’s better. Hopefully someone will let me know if it’s stopped working on IE4 or Safari-on-an-iPhone or whatever.

]]> By: lydslikestea http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207778 lydslikestea Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:30:43 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207778 i heart twitter. The inane blether that streams from my feed is what I find so comforting. Oh and roo I can't reply to our delightful exchange about the price of crisps just now because twitter thinks that you're not following me thus I'm forbidden to direct message a non-follower. This is of course reflects an awkward twitter social question: should you follow someone who follows you? @stephenfry follows me, as does @innocentdrinks and the lovely @dangermain but @russelldavis does not. I think I've been booted off of @russelldavis's followers as a result of his recent cull. Don't blame him, I only twitter about tea and nonsense. Not even my own creative director @floheiss follows me. Poor me. Sometimes I think that twitter is lying - my meatspace friends tell me that they indeed follow me, but twitter claims they don't. Mmmm. Who's lying? Anyway Roo - my crisps were delicious , credit crunch crisps :-) i heart twitter. The inane blether that streams from my feed is what I find so comforting. Oh and roo I can’t reply to our delightful exchange about the price of crisps just now because twitter thinks that you’re not following me thus I’m forbidden to direct message a non-follower.

This is of course reflects an awkward twitter social question:
should you follow someone who follows you? @stephenfry follows me, as does @innocentdrinks and the lovely @dangermain but @russelldavis does not. I think I’ve been booted off of @russelldavis’s followers as a result of his recent cull. Don’t blame him, I only twitter about tea and nonsense. Not even my own creative director @floheiss follows me. Poor me.

Sometimes I think that twitter is lying – my meatspace friends tell me that they indeed follow me, but twitter claims they don’t. Mmmm. Who’s lying?

Anyway Roo – my crisps were delicious , credit crunch crisps :-)

]]> By: kyb http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207551 kyb Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:03:47 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207551 I thought you were trying to force us to micro-comment :-) I thought you were trying to force us to micro-comment :-)

]]> By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207526 Roo Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:39:15 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207526 Just for you (and anyone else who writes more than a tiny amount of text), I shall make the comment window bigger tonight. I like long and thoughful comments and it's very annoying when text fields are too small. Just for you (and anyone else who writes more than a tiny amount of text), I shall make the comment window bigger tonight. I like long and thoughful comments and it’s very annoying when text fields are too small.

]]> By: Cait http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207521 Cait Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:35:29 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207521 Doh, I just read that middle paragraph. Incomprehensible! That's what happens when you write in to a tiddly window - you can't see what you wrote. Doh, I just read that middle paragraph. Incomprehensible! That’s what happens when you write in to a tiddly window – you can’t see what you wrote.

]]> By: Cait http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207340 Cait Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207340 I don't think it works as a conversation platform. You're doing the equivalent of shouting your conversation across a crowded room. The platform does clearly echo psychology research on conversation, ie: that people tend to treat conversations as a ping pong of what *they* want to say, rather than listening to the other person's needs (ie: people will use what someone has said as a lift off point for their own point, rather than embracing the other person's point wholly). What's interesting is that the premis Twitter itself want the platform to adhere to - basically Status updates, become proto conversations, but these have limits which are imposed by the ego-oriented nature of the 'statement of self', regardless of whether it's represented as a query or not. I'm sure recently you noticed the conversation that Clay Shirky and TomC attempted - very much in that mode, but also I would hazard a guess slightly frustrating for everyone else reading. There's a tipping point prior to which a few replies seem reasonable, but suddenly, it seems intrusive. I don’t think it works as a conversation platform. You’re doing the equivalent of shouting your conversation across a crowded room. The platform does clearly echo psychology research on conversation, ie: that people tend to treat conversations as a ping pong of what *they* want to say, rather than listening to the other person’s needs (ie: people will use what someone has said as a lift off point for their own point, rather than embracing the other person’s point wholly).
What’s interesting is that the premis Twitter itself want the platform to adhere to – basically Status updates, become proto conversations, but these have limits which are imposed by the ego-oriented nature of the ‘statement of self’, regardless of whether it’s represented as a query or not.
I’m sure recently you noticed the conversation that Clay Shirky and TomC attempted – very much in that mode, but also I would hazard a guess slightly frustrating for everyone else reading. There’s a tipping point prior to which a few replies seem reasonable, but suddenly, it seems intrusive.

]]> By: kyb http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207227 kyb Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:08:26 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207227 subdigit, I think it's better to have occasional posts on your blog automatically listing your recent twitters. That way people can have a discussion in the appropriate place for a discussion - blog comments, those who don't want to use twitter can still keep up with what you're doing, and you have a nice record under your own control of what you've been up to. subdigit, I think it’s better to have occasional posts on your blog automatically listing your recent twitters. That way people can have a discussion in the appropriate place for a discussion – blog comments, those who don’t want to use twitter can still keep up with what you’re doing, and you have a nice record under your own control of what you’ve been up to.

]]> By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2009/01/09/how-do-you-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-207186 Roo Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:38:26 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1267#comment-207186 Interesting points. Regarding <i>"everyone @ replies to a response regardless of whether it was the last tweet they are responding to"</i>, I see this a lot, but I think you're right that it's down to usage rather than functionality. Threading is supported quite nicely, even if the additional magic of hitting 'reply to' on a Tweet isn't as obvious as it could/should be. <code>&in_reply_to_status_id=foo&in_reply_to=bar</code> is there to be used. Client apps can and do help here. I've found it helpful to think of Twitter as a (slightly flaky but reasonably open) platform rather than a (very flaky and not even particularly good) website. Interesting points.

Regarding “everyone @ replies to a response regardless of whether it was the last tweet they are responding to”, I see this a lot, but I think you’re right that it’s down to usage rather than functionality.

Threading is supported quite nicely, even if the additional magic of hitting ‘reply to’ on a Tweet isn’t as obvious as it could/should be. &in_reply_to_status_id=foo&in_reply_to=bar is there to be used. Client apps can and do help here. I’ve found it helpful to think of Twitter as a (slightly flaky but reasonably open) platform rather than a (very flaky and not even particularly good) website.

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