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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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Marc VermutConsideration of the anthropological underpinnings of online social networks
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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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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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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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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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Barbara LindseyVua http://twitter.com/tonnet
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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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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.
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