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Re: Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

Raptoreyes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:56:36 -0000

Then the real trick will be choosing WHO is in each membership list VERY carefully. Or perhaps multiple accounts for multiple purposes if Twitter's software is in any way unequal to parsing out lists of people and keeping them separate for the purposes of updates. In other words can I keep messages (for services) that might appeal to an architect away from messages that would appeal to Sci Fi authors. (For example)

Any resources online that are NOT produced by the "Twitter Team" (other then this great article) that can give me a sense of what the limitations of Twitter are and any abilities that I might not have considered as assets in Twitter? The companies own tutorial resources might overstate or understate the functionality that expert users understand far better then the designers themselves.

Thanks again for your reply, it made me realize that the label we give information depends a great deal on weather we want to hear it. This helped me ask a better more useful question. After all, its very easy to unintentionally "force feed" a person content that they might not want at that particular time. A person might get visibly bored in person but on the internet the just skip over your messages without any warning that you just "lost them". Lets hope these list provide feedback when its apparent that peoples interests have changed.

Re: Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

Raptoreyes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:14:36 -0000

Well well Vada! Fancy meeting you here.

I have begun to consider getting Twitter (Big thanks to Steffan Antonas linking Twitters exponential growth chart vs other social networks for helping me to consider this). Still the word count limit for Tweets is what kept me away in the first place, so I still wonder if it will annoy me, once I "jack into" the Twitter network.

As to the article I was wondering how useful Twitter is for commercial use. When does your content cross the line from being useful to being spam. How do you avoid crossing the grey blurry line even if you keep the number of people who follow you below Dunbar's limit?

Re: Eat the Young!

Raptoreyes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:19:01 -0000

We are living in an age where small organizations are overwhelming those the babyboomers built. No matter how many bailouts the older generation does its organizations of the young that will make many of the changes. The young are very active, but this is NOT boomer style activism.

Another wrinkle that fools many is that some young people these days (such as myself) are active on the libertarian side of things. I donated to Ron Pauls campaign and called my congressional representatives in favor of auditing (with an eye toward abolishing) the Federal Reserve. This doubtlessly does not register as activism with the left. Still many Libertarians are looking for groups that end run around the political process entirely. (as featured in this article)