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Twitter: The Uselessfulness of Micro-blogging →
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22 percent of Twitterers have five or fewer followers
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The irrational exuberance that people felt about the stock market several years ago has been replaced by near hysteria for Twitter. I once heard an investor say that the time to get out of the market was when your cab driver started giving you stock tips. You might say the same about the state of Twitter today. It’s supposed to be about conversation. Be careful. Sometimes it feels like thousands of people talking you to death in 140 characters or less.
— The best part of this Advertising Age article is his friend’s description of Twitter: “so easy to be maudlin, so easy to pollute.” (via somethingchanged)
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The underlying promise of Facebook and Twitter is that they present people in easily digestible, observable sets of information in which common attributes and interests can be spotted, and contact is easy to initiate.
— The New Media Generation’s Inner War, PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
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We’re telling each other stories, 140 characters at a time, as they unfold. If you can’t see the value in that, you’re hopeless.
— from Paul Constant Reviews Twitter (via Daring Fireball: cubicle17: electronicalrattlebag) (via somethingchanged)
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What is interesting about the technology environment we live in is that for the first time in our human history we are able to create persistent and mirror-like references points of our lives that keep former identities in constant view. Videos and photographs taken from birth, snippets of life documented on Facebook, streams of thoughts on Twitter, inner wonderings revealed in blogs — these are all new reference points for creating and shaping our identities, our senses of self. And unlike previous reminders, often tucked away in shoe boxes, desk drawers, and attics, these are much more sensory-rich, pervasive, and easily accessible, to us and others.
— Personal Transformations in the Internet Age Boing Boing (via somethingchanged)
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The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by your actions, usually based on just your fingers. If you do generous things, people think you are a generous person. If you bully people, people assume you are a bully. If you ask dumb questions, people figure you’re dumb. Answer questions well and people assume you’re smart and generous… The biggest takeaway for me is this: online interactions are largely expected to be intentional. On purpose. Planned. People assume you did stuff for a reason.
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If I were of a mind to launch a Web 2.0 business today, I wouldn’t rely on advertising or subscriptions or try to maximize my page views. I wouldn’t worry about technology at all, in fact. I’d become a personal avatar consultant, helping nervous people construct and manage their menagerie of online selves.
— Nicholas Carr (via somethingchanged)
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The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by your actions, usually based on just your fingers. If you do generous things, people think you are a generous person. If you bully people, people assume you are a bully. If you ask dumb questions, people figure you’re dumb. Answer questions well and people assume you’re smart and generous… The biggest takeaway for me is this: online interactions are largely expected to be intentional. On purpose. Planned. People assume you did stuff for a reason.
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The MySpace page, with its shrieking typography and clamorous imagery, has replaced the journal and the letter as a way of creating and communicating one’s sense of self. The suggestion is not only that such communication is to be made to the world at large rather than to oneself or one’s intimates, or graphically rather than verbally, or performatively rather than narratively or analytically, but also that it can be made completely. Today’s young people seem to feel that they can make themselves fully known to one another. They seem to lack a sense of their own depths, and of the value of keeping them hidden.
— The End of Solitude ChronicleReview.com (via somethingchanged)
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