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Greg LinchJelly looks like it fits in with Twitter Theory: http://t.co/KJ2oMe0sTJ http://t.co/DU0ELA54cs
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At it heart Twitter is a flow
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you can dip in and out of it, when you have time
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The key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other
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Making following asymmetric is similarly freeing for social relationships - it means you can follow authors or film stars without drowning them in friend requests, and get the same phatic sense of connection with them that you get from friends.
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The idea of Following means that the natural view we see on Twitter is different for each of us, and is of those we have chosen to hear from. In effect we each have our own view of the web, our own public that we see and we address.
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What shows up in Twitter, in blogs and in the other ways we are connecting the loosely coupled web into flows is that by each reading whom we choose to and passing on some of it to others, we are each others media, we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation. Although we each only touch a local part of it, ideas can travel a long way.
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In fact, social connections are a small-world network, that has the Six Degrees property that it is both locally connected, but can be traversed globally in a small number of jumps. Although online social networks are often not good models of real world ones, they share this feature, and Twitter amplifies it with both a low propogation delay and the enforced brevity that makes both writing and reading rapid.
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09 Nov 10
Christopher Allen@on_the_media ask @Ev why he discounts the phatic nature of twitter and calls it an information network. See http://bit.ly/twittertheory
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Doug Peterson"Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies."
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Clive ThompsonGreat Kevin Marks essay on why Twitter works:
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Christina Romhanyi"How Twitter works in theory
It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at -
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Marc VermutConsideration of the anthropological underpinnings of online social networks
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Tom WoodwardPhatic
The key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other. Both Google and Twitter have little boxes for you to type into, but on Google you're looking for information, and expecting a machine respons -
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Thomas Vander WalOne of the better understandings I have ever read about what Twitter is about under the surface
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katarina peovicAt it heart Twitter is a flow - it doesn't present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don't have email's inbox problem - the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Instead, you can dip in
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At it heart Twitter is a flow - it doesn't present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don't have email's inbox problem - the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Instead, you can dip in and out of it, when you have time, and what you see is notes from people you care about.
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Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them.
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The key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other
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whereas on Twitter you're declaring an emotion and expecting a human response
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Historically, web fora were open to anyone, leading to the tragedy of the comments, where annoying people showed up and spoiled things.
Social network sites changed this by requiring mutual agreement on friendship
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This is analogous to the pre-web hypertext systems that insisted every link would be bidirectiona
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For those with Habermas's assumption of a single common public sphere this makes no sense - surely everyone should see everything that anyone says as part of the discussion?
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Historically, web fora were open to anyone, leading to the tragedy of the comments, where annoying people showed up and spoiled things.
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Making following asymmetric is similarly freeing for social relationships
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In effect we each have our own view of the web, our own public that we see and we address.
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Thus the tactics of shouting down debate in town halls show up as the baiting and trollery that make YouTube comments a byword for idiocy; when all hear the words of one, the conversation often decays.
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What shows up in Twitter, in blogs and in the other ways we are connecting the loosely coupled web into flows is that by each reading whom we choose to and passing on some of it to others, we are each others media, we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation. Although we each only touch a local part of it, ideas can travel a long way.
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rickmansIt is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter f
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pirkkaaunolaIt is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter f
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Priya Bhakta"It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter
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Joyce SeitzingerFlow
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Adriana Lukasexcellent post on Twitter by Kevin Marks explaining its social, phatic nature. Also insightful is Bob Wyman's comment about recevier/sender controlled messaging. It made me think that Twitter is the first receiver controlled communication. Subcribing to blog feeds is also receiver controlled but less communication and more information managment. Mine! might take this a step further.. need to ponder more.
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Sean DAt its heart Twitter is a flow - it doesn't present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don't have email's inbox problem - the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Instead, you can dip in
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Nancy WhiteIt is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. "Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter
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Mark RabnettThe key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other. Both Google and Twitter have little boxes for you to type into, but on Google you're looking for information, and expecting a machine response, where
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user 100"The key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other."
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Katherine StevensLists qualities that make Twitter effective: (1) Flow - it's not a inbox with count of unread message
(2) Faces (3) Phatic -- full of social gestures (4) Following -- It's asymmetrical; you don't
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ken .Kevin Marks inspired by Laura Fitton's on twitter - flow (no intimidating unread count), faces (exciting neural circuits), phatic (not a simple search for information, instead an expectation of emotional response, gestures, grooming), following (asymmetry
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Howard RheingoldThe alternative model is one that is less familiar, yet is all around us - the spontaneous order that emerges from people communicating in parallel. We know this from market pricing, from scientific consensuses, and from human language, and are starting to see it harnessed in projects like Wikipedia that present a dynamic cultural consensus. What shows up in Twitter, in blogs and in the other ways we are connecting the loosely coupled web into flows is that by each reading whom we choose to and passing on some of it to others, we are each others media, we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation. Although we each only touch a local part of it, ideas can travel a long way.
Small world networks
This seems counter-intuitive too—we're used to the idea of having an institution tell us what is news—but that is really a left-over anomaly from 20th Century mass media. In fact, social connections are a small-world network, that has the Six Degrees property that it is both locally connected, but can be traversed globally in a small number of jumps. Although online social networks are often not good models of real world ones, they share this feature, and Twitter amplifies it with both a low propogation delay and the enforced brevity that makes both writing and reading rapid. -
Claudia CerasoThe subtlety is that the publics are semi-overlapping - not everyone we can see will hear us, as they don't necessarily follow us, and they may not dip into the stream in time to catch the evanescent ripples in the flow that our remark started. However, a
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Adam Crowe#Flow #Faces: Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them. This taps into deep mental structures that we all have to looks for faces and associate the information we receive with people we decide to trust,
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Antony Mayfield"Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some the
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