April 10, 2007 13 Comments

Small Boxes 25- Twitter


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Shot in a hotel room at Spring 2007 Video on the Net, Robert Scoble, Jeff Pulver, Steve Garfield, Denise Howell, Amit Shafrir, Dr. Robert Pepper, and I talked about Twitter, the social media presence tool.

The question, posted by Dr. Pepper: “What is Twitter?” What a perfect question to ask that crowd.

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  • http://lojic.com/blog/ Brian Adkins

    I love your “I’m not really a community guy” twitter message :) I’m still trying to assess the value of twitter and jaiku. I think there will be a place for it, but to have 2,700+ friends like Scoble just seems insane. Why would anyone want pages of twitter messages constantly scrolling by – how can he see what his *real* friends are up to?

  • http://lojic.com/blog/ Brian Adkins

    I love your “I’m not really a community guy” twitter message :) I’m still trying to assess the value of twitter and jaiku. I think there will be a place for it, but to have 2,700+ friends like Scoble just seems insane. Why would anyone want pages of twitter messages constantly scrolling by – how can he see what his *real* friends are up to?

  • http://www.chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    The trick of Twitter at that velocity is to use it like a stream. Robert Scoble used it to find out which apps to add on a Mac. He used it to get some feedback on some questions. It becomes a pulsing tool where the individual answers no longer matter as much as the aggregate.

    His real friends update him by posting, and then Robert points to what he wants to find. Attention versus segregation.

  • http://www.chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    The trick of Twitter at that velocity is to use it like a stream. Robert Scoble used it to find out which apps to add on a Mac. He used it to get some feedback on some questions. It becomes a pulsing tool where the individual answers no longer matter as much as the aggregate.

    His real friends update him by posting, and then Robert points to what he wants to find. Attention versus segregation.

  • http://www.fogview.com Tom

    There has been a fake Scoble on Twitter for at least three weeks.
    http://twitter.com/Scobelizer

    Anyway, I enjoyed the video.

    Thanks,
    Tom
    The Fogview Podcast

  • http://www.fogview.com Tom

    There has been a fake Scoble on Twitter for at least three weeks.
    http://twitter.com/Scobelizer

    Anyway, I enjoyed the video.

    Thanks,
    Tom
    The Fogview Podcast

  • http://lojic.com/blog/ Brian Adkins

    Chris, maybe you could elaborate a little. When Robert “pulsed” his twitter followers for Mac apps, did they respond out of band, so he could get a handle on their responses, or did they respond with twitter posts? If the latter, unless twitter provides some filtering mechanism I haven’t found yet, it seems like a pain to try and sift through the noise.

    And regarding following his “real” friends, how would you recommend doing this? Again, it seems you’d have to do it out of band maybe with rss feeds of just your friends, or maybe you’re referring to going to a specific friend’s twitter page to see their posts.

    If twitter or jaiku provided some advanced filtering mechanisms, it would seem to be a lot more useful.

  • http://lojic.com/blog/ Brian Adkins

    Chris, maybe you could elaborate a little. When Robert “pulsed” his twitter followers for Mac apps, did they respond out of band, so he could get a handle on their responses, or did they respond with twitter posts? If the latter, unless twitter provides some filtering mechanism I haven’t found yet, it seems like a pain to try and sift through the noise.

    And regarding following his “real” friends, how would you recommend doing this? Again, it seems you’d have to do it out of band maybe with rss feeds of just your friends, or maybe you’re referring to going to a specific friend’s twitter page to see their posts.

    If twitter or jaiku provided some advanced filtering mechanisms, it would seem to be a lot more useful.

  • http://www.chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    Hi Brian–

    Twitter, the application, isn’t that clever in bouncing directed conversation back and forth outside of the direct message function. But people USING twitter have tricks. I’ve got a Yahoo Pipe that Christopher S. Penn made me. It lets me sort for anyone mentioning my name. There’s also Twittersearch.

    Following one’s *real* friends, when you’re built for sourcing lots of data at a time (Robert reads THOUSANDS of feeds), Robert probably picks people who are in his vicinity, or who he needs to focus on for a time. That’s how I do it.

    Otherwise, the magic is in the stream, not the single. It’s ants. It’s The Matrix.

  • http://www.chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    Hi Brian–

    Twitter, the application, isn’t that clever in bouncing directed conversation back and forth outside of the direct message function. But people USING twitter have tricks. I’ve got a Yahoo Pipe that Christopher S. Penn made me. It lets me sort for anyone mentioning my name. There’s also Twittersearch.

    Following one’s *real* friends, when you’re built for sourcing lots of data at a time (Robert reads THOUSANDS of feeds), Robert probably picks people who are in his vicinity, or who he needs to focus on for a time. That’s how I do it.

    Otherwise, the magic is in the stream, not the single. It’s ants. It’s The Matrix.

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  • http://www.idoitdigital.com Clintus

    I love twitter and I’m officially a twitterholic. Based on Pulver’s shirt I would guess that this was shot while we were at the mexican food place.

  • http://www.idoitdigital.com Clintus

    I love twitter and I’m officially a twitterholic. Based on Pulver’s shirt I would guess that this was shot while we were at the mexican food place.