vlbrown

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by vlbrown 18y ago
Interesting that the question "What do you find that you like about Twitter?" is being answered here as "it's intrusive, you shouldn't use it." This isn't about "personal preferences". It's "Why __should__ I care about Twitter."
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by vlbrown 18y ago
I think "it's a giant intrusion into my life" was getting emotional. :)
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by vlbrown 18y ago
> Taking example something like blogs: it has instant appeal in a lot of people, because basically it is an online diary. If you think back 8 or 10 years, a lot of people didn't understand blogs. They were dismissed as being the online
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by vlbrown 18y ago
In fact, according to twitterlocal.net, there are roughly as many twitterers in New York City as San Francisco (on May 6 it was almost even). More in London UK than Los Angeles, CA. Almost as many in Wash. DC as LA. And Tokyo is the Twiteri
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by vlbrown 18y ago
Twitter is stories, vignettes, small slices of people lives. Twitter is a 24-hour come-as-you-are blockparty. People come and go, talk and listen. Some of them already know each other, many of them don't. Twitter is lifestreaming, 140 chara
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by vlbrown 18y ago
Make new friends. :)
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by vlbrown 18y ago
So, you saw one person use Twitter in a certain way, thought that way was silly, drew a generalization to the entire service, and you decided you knew everything abut it? Someone uses the telephone to do telemarketing to try to sell you car
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by vlbrown 18y ago
Some of us find that, as we use Twitter, we make new friends. Not all of my friends need to be people I see (physically) just as not all of the people, I see (physically) are my friends.
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by vlbrown 18y ago
But again, if You don't care what I am doing, that whatever possessed you to "follow" me? You only follow the people you WANT to follow. You only read what you WANT to read. You turn on SMS (or IM) notifications at YOUR preference. The onl
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by vlbrown 18y ago
And... not only do yu decide if updates come to your phone, you do that on a per-person basis. So you'll only see what that friend is doing If You Want To. That's about as non-intrusive as it gets. It's entirely under YOUR control.
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by vlbrown 18y ago
Actually, there are many people in Twitter from Boston. Also the UK, Japan (so many that they've started Twitter Japan), New York, Kansas, Louisiana, and more. Twitter is the web. It's way beyond "California".