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ame keeabout the half conversation theory, i can't agree with it, coz in fact it doesnt work in that way
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Michel BauwensFor a period last summer, I was a Twitter addict — addict really is the right word.
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Kawika HolbrookEven though he finds it "useful and valuable," Karp writes Twiiter is "like hanging out at a bar with a bunch of interesting people (some of whom are talking on their cellphones) and forgetting that you have to go home."
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Tom Verhoeve[...] It’s not that ALL of Twitter is a waste of time. It’s that TOO MUCH of Twitter is a massive waste of time. Some aspects are hugely valuable and well worth the time. There’s really interesting “conversation.” There’s connectedness. There
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Joaquim Rendeiro«But Twitter has turned distraction into an art form. It’s like hanging out at a bar with a bunch of interesting people (some of whom are talking on their cellphones) and forgetting that you have to go home.»
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Seb PaquetBut the noise to signal ratio is WAY too high. And the temptation to Tweet for the sake of Tweeting is WAY too high.
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Andrew DeVigal"But the noise to signal ratio is WAY too high. And the temptation to Tweet for the sake of Tweeting is WAY too high."
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Christiane SHThe web itself — Techmeme alone — is a huge blackhole of distraction. It’s hard enough to stay focused when you work on the web.
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Michel RolandLet me immediately qualify that — it’s not that ALL of Twitter is a waste of time. It’s that TOO MUCH of Twitter is a massive waste of time. Some aspects are hugely valuable and well worth the time. There’s really interesting “conversation.
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Let me immediately qualify that — it’s not that ALL of Twitter is a waste of time. It’s that TOO MUCH of Twitter is a massive waste of time. Some aspects are hugely valuable and well worth the time. There’s really interesting “conversation.” There’s connectedness. There’s discovery.
But the noise to signal ratio is WAY too high. And the temptation to Tweet for the sake of Tweeting is WAY too high.
An example of high noise to signal is the Twitter “half conversation” — where two user are talking to each other directly, but you only follow one of them. So you hear half the conversation, like listening to someone on their cell phone. It’s quasi-voyeuristically interesting sometimes, but mostly it’s just annoying.
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