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• 27 Nov 09
  

  Allison Kipta

  "Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional; 3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news. I challenge each and every one of you to record every utterance that comes out of your mouth (and that of everyone you interact with) for an entire day. And then record every facial expression and gesture. You will most likely find what communications scholars found long ago - people are social creatures and a whole lot of what they express is phatic communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying information... think "Hi" or "Thank you".) Now, turn all of your utterances over to an analytics firm so that they can code everything that you've said. I think that you'll be lucky if only 40% of what you say constitutes "pointless babble" to a third party ear."

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• 16 Oct 09
  

  Howard Rheingold

  "I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who are joining its ranks are there to be social. We like the fact that humans are social. It's good for society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable. They want to share their state of mind and status so that others who care about them feel connected. It's a back-and-forth that makes sense if only we didn't look down at it from outter space. Of course it looks alien. Walk into any typical social encounter between people you don't know and it's bound to look a wee bit alien, especially if those people are demographically different than you.
  
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• 24 Aug 09
  

  Nick O'Doherty

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• 21 Aug 09
  

  Alexandre Cabanis

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• 19 Aug 09
  

  theresa s

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  cristina costa

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  • Twitter - like many emergent genres of social media - is structured around networks of people interacting with people they know or find interesting.
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  • • I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who are joining its ranks are there to be social. We like the fact that humans are social. It's good fo
    • society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness.
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  katarina peovic

  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zephoria.org%2Fthoughts%2Farchives%2F2009%2F08%2F16%2Ftwitter_pointle.html

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  • 37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional; 3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news.
  • They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble
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  • • Pear Analytics
    • I challenge each and every one of you to record every utterance that comes out of your mouth (and that of everyone you interact with) for an entire day.
    • people are social creatures and a whole lot of what they express is phatic communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying information... think "Hi" or "Thank you".)
    • And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness
    • ey want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable.
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  Jimmy Breeze

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  • a whole lot of what they express is phatic communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying information
  • Now, turn all of your utterances over to an analytics firm so that they can code everything that you've said. I think that you'll be lucky if only 40% of what you say constitutes "pointless babble" to a third party ear.
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  • • Those who are truly performing to broad audiences (e.g., "celebs", corporations, news entities, and high-profile blogger types) are consciously crafting consumable content that doesn't require actually having an intimate engagement with the person to appreciate.
    • the vast majority of Twitter users are there to maintain social relations, keep up with friends and acquaintances, follow high-profile users, and otherwise connect.
    • Far too many tech junkies and marketers are obsessed with Twitter becoming the next news outlet source. As a result, the press are doing what they did with blogging: hyping Twitter us as this amazing source of current events and dismissing it as pointless babble.
    • I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who are joining its ranks are there to be social.
• 18 Aug 09
  

  Renee Callahan
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  Andrew Murphie

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  Irmeli Aro

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• 17 Aug 09
  

  Rem Palpitt

  Conversation is also more than the explicit back and forth between individuals asking questions and directly referencing one another. It's about the more subtle back and forth that allow us to keep our connections going. It's about the phatic communication and the gestures, the little updates and the awareness of what's happening in space. We take the implicit nature of this for granted in physical environments yet, online, we have to perform each and every aspect of our interactions. What comes out may look valueless, but, often, it's embedded in this broader ecology of social connectivity. What's so wrong about that?

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  Adriana Lukas

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• 16 Aug 09
  

  Dione Wang

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  • They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55%
    are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional;
    3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news.
  • You will most likely find what communications scholars found long ago - people
    are social creatures and a whole lot of what they express is phatic
    communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying
    information... think "Hi" or "Thank you".)
  • 1 more annotations...
  • • I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who
      are joining its ranks are there to be social. We like the fact that humans are
      social. It's good for society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a
      mix of social
      grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what
      the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence
      isn't viable
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  George Roberts

  Twitter - like many emergent genres of social media - is structured around networks of people interacting with people they know or find interesting. Those who are truly performing to broad audiences (e.g., "celebs", corporations, news entities, and high-profile blogger types) are consciously crafting consumable content that doesn't require actually having an intimate engagement with the person to appreciate. Yet, the vast majority of Twitter users are there to maintain social relations, keep up with friends and acquaintances, follow high-profile users, and otherwise connect. It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.

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  M McBride

  It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.

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  • It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.
  • It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.

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