June 5, 2009
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
This is the article you give to people who don’t get twitter, particularly those who aren’t interested in what you had for breakfast:
And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this “ambient awareness”: by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don’t think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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My “extended social network” are called “friends”. I get information by what’s called a “conversation”. Maybe it will catch on.