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Re: Wether Friends count more than followers

Alex Leonard — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:34:17 -0000

I think the time sensitive point is a very valid one. Mico-blogs, whether twitter or Jaiku etc do not exactly lend themselves to 'catching up' and nor would you really want to, being that so much is relative to a particular moment in time.

Re: Wether Friends count more than followers

warzabidul — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:25:41 -0000

You know me. I would rather read your blog and participate there, where it's not time sensitive rather than on twitter where people don't seem to have the time anymore.

There is a mass migration of celebrities, especially English but I'm not sure that necessarily means more users. It just means more accounts for the time being. That's not a bad thing for twitter.

I'm still on jaiku occasionaly bue because I find more tools that work with friendfeed it's more interesting to use that service at the moment.

Thanks for the comment by the way.

Re: Wether Friends count more than followers

waveydavey001 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:49:07 -0000

Interesting article. A lot of people seem to be commenting on Twitter usage at the moment. Perhaps it is because it is reaching some kind of critical mass. The fact that I came here from Jaiku says a lot. It isn't that I'm not using Twitter, I'm forced to because of the mass migration in that direction. It is because even with a small amount following me and a small amount I'm following, I find it difficult to follow and participate. I've mentioned elsewhere that the Twitter Tools are created out of necessity to try and solve its shortcomings.
Over the past month I've noticed more and more celebrities, more Newspaper Journalists and more companies saying 'follow me on Twitter'. This seems to be an indication of what Twitter might become - a place to shout not participate. Meanwhile other micro-blogs seem to be dying slowly.
Thats it from me, but if you want to follow me on Twitter I'm... (only joking)