Comments on: Twitter Nostalgia

By: Carlos Miceli

Carlos Miceli — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:24:42 +0000

Buzz may be, but I would argue that FB is as deaf as Twitter. Depends on the numbers.

By: Arsene Hodali

Arsene Hodali — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:31:22 +0000

Again, I haven’t the comments but I have to say the before (Facebook) and after (Buzz) of Twitter are both less “deaf” than people on Twitter are.

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By: Monica O'Brien

Monica O'Brien — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:35:31 +0000

1) I think this conversation is interesting.
2) If you don’t think this conversation is interesting, then why respond? Stop reading, unsubscribe, move along – inaction is the answer. The rest of us were not put on earth to be interesting to you.
3) I agree with you Carlos. Twitter is not “dead,” but it is not very useful for me anymore. I’m happy to connect with you there if you @ or DM me, but I generally don’t follow the conversation so much these days. I am back to RSS in terms of following blogs, and I regularly check my favorites by heading to their actual sites (like yours).
4) If Twitter is useful to other people, have at it. Frankly, I’m agnostic to Twitter use as long as you aren’t spamming me. Now blogging and “building community,” that’s a different story for me…

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By: Carlos Miceli

Carlos Miceli — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:57:24 +0000

I agree with everything that you say Scott, I know that creating conversations is not a hard thing to do. What I’m saying is that the spontaneous and multiple debates with multiple people that I sed to see on Twitter are not there anymore.

By: Scott Hale

Scott Hale — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:22:42 +0000

It’s pretty obvious that conversation has decreased a bit over the past year or so, but I think Twitter itself is to blame. The day open conversation died was the day Twitter took away open @ replies. I could expand my network and find incredible conversations to join by simply watching them begin between somebody I already followed and somebody new that I could connect with. That’s where the majority of my current connections come from.

As for the way things are now – The best we can do is find and create conversations. It’s hard to blame the situation on the tool when the same function exists. I do my best to create conversations based on the links people share. I still learn from many of the links and I still have the ability to strike up conversation around any topic somebody presents. The general public may use Twitter differently now than they did before, but the potential is still there for you to build and create conversations.

Also, like Spinks said – chats are built on conversation. You could easily find a relevant chat in which to participate nearly every day of the week. If it doesn’t exist, create it.

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By: Carlos Miceli

Carlos Miceli — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:15:56 +0000

Yeah, I guess Twitter is the best we have for now. It connected us!

By: Anita Lobo

Anita Lobo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:58:57 +0000

Hi Carlos,
A couple of observations:
Deaf success – is bang on.
Twitter is a useful tool. It performs well, if we know what we’re looking to do with it.
My personal experience is that it’s connected me with people around the world and still brings up more interesting stuff [on a varied range of interests] than facebook or linkedin, every day.
That being said, I also think that the art of conversation is being pummeled severely, and its very noticeable on twitter.
Due to the time zone differences [India/ UK/ US] I seem to have more serendipitous conversations with friends in India; and join structured chats with some groups that have a predominantly US base.
With you my friend, we chat when a topic interests us both, inspite of the time.
At other times, I feel its best to listen and not add to the noise, if I have nothing substantial to say.
Cheers,
Anita