All A-Twitter
It’s been fun to watch people I know take to Twitter. [Especially Alex.] Ross Mayfield writes about the rapid adoption—using the term “tip the tuna”, which I’m wholly unfamiliar with and brings up a point I wholly agree with:
Good thing too, because back when it was called twittr people held back believing what they posted would be interrupting on mostly mobile devices. Lately I think people just go for it, and most consumption is on the web or other clients. I’d love to see some research on posts/user, client use, tracking @username, group identities, geographic dispersion and revealing other undesigned conventions.
That was exactly my original hangup in signing up for it. Like Alex, I find that Twitteriffic is practically perfect for the service, and I lament the lack of a Windows-based counterpart client. [But then I hardly have the time to update at work these days.]
The best thing about Twitter is the constraints: a simple system with a simple vocabulary of verbs, limited by 140 characters. It’s well nigh awesome. Constraints are good—they encourage creativity. Blank slates? Too intimidating.
Is Twitteroo a contender on windows?
March 11th, 2007 at 9:32 pmYeah, I think that it could be. I know that my boy Chris is using it, and I’ll probably give it a shot tomorrow.
March 11th, 2007 at 9:34 pm[...] All A-Twitter [...]
March 11th, 2007 at 10:38 pmYeah, I’m trying out Twitteroo today here at work. I got it installed at home yesterday but didn’t really try it much.
So far at work Twitteroo is a bit shaky; it appears to be pulling down updates OK, but it only has about a 50% success rate so far in sending in my tweets. Not sure if that has to do with the proxy here at work or if it’s a general issue with the application. I’ll keep trying.
March 12th, 2007 at 8:20 am