Comments on: Three Things to Read About Twitter

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:04 +0000

@Si Mack – You might find this short post by Mike Arauz affirming:

http://www.mikearauz.com/2009/07/facebookcom-is-not-important.html

@Vic @Graham.Creative.me – Adovocates and contrarians alike acknowledge Twitter as a communication ‘phenomenon’ by focusing on it so much.

So whether you like the service/ brand or not, Twitter is contributing to a shift in the perception of how we can, or should, communicate.

That alone (IMHO) makes it well worth exploring and understanding.

Nice post, Iain. Or should that be ‘Nice post @iaintait’ …?

By: Si Mack

Si Mack — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:41:59 +0000

well no surprise the comments on the Guardian are fairly well filled with cynical bashing. I think with Twitter (and Facebook et al) a lot of people get stuck at the brand name thing and don’t get the wider implications, or even just the simple thing; that all any of these are really is platforms to talk, whether that’s play or whether that’s communicating important information. People tend to do both those things frequently ‘in real life’, why would any extension of that into the network be any different?

Its the principal of connectedness that has now become an indisputable fact of life, and I look forward to a time when it’s split between more small applications camouflaged into the normal flow of people’s lives and the devices they use, not platform specific, not brand-name specific, and people will stop focusing on ‘Twitter’ & ‘Facebnook’ etc etc as objects of their anti-everything wrath

By: My twitter is blogged re-twittered and re-blogged « Graham.Creative.

My twitter is blogged re-twittered and re-blogged « Graham.Creative. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:53 +0000

[...] then, an unconnected post on Twitter from Crackunit (aka Iain Tait CD of Poke London) talked about twitter haters, and the fact they’re largely [...]

By: Graham.Creative.me

Graham.Creative.me — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:49:50 +0000

The trouble is people such as the commentators on that post, saying it’s crap, ARE doing the thing which Twitter does so well. Engaging people around topics.

It’s ironic that Twitter has stirred a debate away from twitter, which is then blogged by the haters saying twitters crap, which is then re-twittered and blogged by people who love it.

In summary: They are unknowingly doing the same thing as the people they despise. Social commentary, people voicing opinion. (Albeit a short-sighted and narrow minded one). It’s no different from people nattering at a bus stop or a village post office. Just on a global scale.

By: All Hale

All Hale — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:43:44 +0000

The telephone is crap.

By: Here comes my post about Twitter « The way things go

Here comes my post about Twitter « The way things go — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:18:25 +0000

[...] I read on Iain’s marvelous blog about Twitter and a piece in the Guardian and his observation on the comments, and how people think [...]

By: Flo

Flo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:06:38 +0000

I don’t get how people can think twitter is crap.
It’s just like saying the telephone is crap.

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:22:24 +0000

Or for an alternative view:

http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2009/07/skeptics-guide-to-twitter.html