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30 Jan 11
Jared BernotskiMy favorite comment on this topic came in today's class: a student said "Twitter's not a substitute for anything we used to do. It's a combination of about 17 things we used to do."
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24 Jun 09
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12 Jun 09
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03 Jun 09
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15 May 09
jplamondonAndrew McAfee on Twitter: not all exchanges are governed by incentives, mutual benefit, or economic rationality. Sometimes they're governed by simple neighborliness, and Twitter is an awfully big neighborhood.
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03 May 09
William "Bud" Deihlthe class decided that while Twitter contained no single revolutionary technology, it was in aggregate pretty novel. This was because of its combination of attributes.
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27 Apr 09
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Harold JarcheMy favorite comment on this topic came in today’s class: a student said “Twitter’s not a substitute for anything we used to do. It’s a combination of about 17 things we used to do.”
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26 Apr 09
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Monolithic. There are a huge number of email systems, bulletin boards, chatrooms, discussion groups, etc. in the world. And many of them are closed to outsiders, making them mutually inaccessible walled gardens. This fragmentation means that all these environments don’t “add up to anything;” they can’t be queried as a whole by any single user, and the beneficial interactions in one have difficulty spilling over into others. Twitter, in sharp contrast, is a single pool of digital content. It’s generated by a legion of people using a cohort of devices, but it all winds up in one place.
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- Chat
- Discussion boards
- Identifying trending topics
- Broadcasting breaking news
- Marketing and brand building
- Mining consumer sentiment
- Providing status updates to friends and family
- Communicating location, activity, mood, and other personal information
- Engaging in customer service
- Finding information on topics of interest
- Finding people who share an interest
These are Twitter use cases; things we’re doing with Twitter that we used to do (and still do) with other technologies:
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One last thought on the topic. Because Twitter is so open and frictionless, it has greatly lowered the barrier to contribution; people can and do fire off a tweet in a matter of seconds.
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My point with this story is not just to bust on GM, but also to highlight that I got 16 shots of altruism from people, most of whom I didn’t know, at a time when I could really use them.
They were willing to help me out not because I’m such a good friend of theirs (not the case) or such an obviously great guy (depends heavily on who you talk to), but because we humans like being altruistic, and Twitter makes altruism the work of a few seconds. The help I got cost each each sender virtually nothing, yet added up to a highly valuable resource for me. I think it’s important not to lose sight of that, and to keep in mind that not all exchanges are governed by incentives, mutual benefit, or economic rationality. Sometimes they’re governed by simple neighborliness, and Twitter is an awfully big neighborhood.
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25 Apr 09
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it seemed like the right time to discuss this technology/service/phenomenon/whatever-it-is in my MBA course
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These are Twitter use cases; things we’re doing with Twitter that we used to do (and still do) with other technologies:
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Identifying trending topics
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Broadcasting breaking news
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Twitter is an awfully big neighborhood
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23 Apr 09
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raman srinivasan# Concise. The 140 character limit constrains “how boring you can be,” in the words of one student.
# Hyperlinked. Tweets can include links to pages and pictures.
# Persistent. Tweets are not evanescent; they stick around over time and are easy to locate and point to.
# Searchable. Persistent tweets mean that Twitter as a whole is searchable
# Asynchronous. Users can dive into the Tweetstream whenever they wish, and can catch up on what they missed. This makes it feel different than a Web-based chat room, where you need to be present during a conversation to participate in it and benefit from it.
# Asymmetric. As Laura emphasized, Twitter’s publish-and-subscribe architecture is fundamentally different than Facebook’s friending mechanism. My Facebook friends by default send information to me about what they’re up to. My Twitter followers do not – only the people I’m following pipe information to me. I perceive myself to be part of a single network of friends on Facebook, but I’m part of two very different networks on Twitter: the people I follow (I select these people because I want to get information from them), and those who follow me (these people select me because they want to get information from me).
# Largely public, but with a private option. Users can send private tweets (called ‘direct messages,’ or DMs) to each other, but all others are part of the public record; they persist in a user’s profile and can be found via search.
# Categorizable. Twe-
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- Discussion boards
- Identifying trending topics
- Broadcasting breaking news
- Marketing and brand building
- Mining consumer sentiment
- Providing status updates to friends and family
- Communicating location, activity, mood, and other personal information
- Engaging in customer service
- Finding information on topics of interest
- Finding people who share an interest
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22 Apr 09
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because we humans like being altruistic, and Twitter makes altruism the work of a few seconds.
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Twitter is an awfully big neighborhood.
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21 Apr 09
craig rolandI started off class today by asking if Twitter really was something new under the sun, or if it was instead largely similar to previous collaboration technologies
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Beth Raney"I think it’s important not to lose sight of that, and to keep in mind that not all exchanges are governed by incentives, mutual benefit, or economic rationality. Sometimes they’re governed by simple neighborliness, and Twitter is an awfully big neighborh
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doug corneliusTwitter grew by 131% in March alone, and Oprah started tweeting last week (and already has about 175,000 followers), so it seemed like the right time to discuss this technology/service/phenomenon/whatever-it-is in my MBA course. Laura Fitton came to class
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20 Apr 09
Clare ATwitter grew by 131% in March alone, and Oprah started tweeting last week (and already has about 175,000 followers), so it seemed like the right time to discuss this technology/service/phenomenon/whatever-it-is in my MBA course. Laura Fitton came to class on Thursday the 16th (thanks, @pistachio!), and we spent more time today talking Twitter.
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