Comments on: In Praise of Twitter

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:37:23 +0000

I really don’t think the conversation has moved to twitter. I think the conversation has moved to real life (where it never really left).

I see more of a ‘conversation’ actually happening on facebook, generally. Status updates do actually seem to generate longer conversations on occasion. I am not friends with anyone I went to school with on there, generally it’s actual people I interact with in the real world, but even then, I really get a sense of knowing too much about every random bit of bullshit that all these people are thinking. Twitter seems to me like lots of closed soundbites. The farthest the ‘conversation’ goes is a couple of tweets or so, and that seems rare. It’s good for links and nudges in various directions. I still see the most interesting online conversations happening here on clusterflock, occasionally and consistently.

Lately I like Flickr; I think the sense of commenting on an image from someone’s actual life draws the conversation enough out of the abstract to be somewhat real-ish. Like a knitting club, or something.

By: Doc

Doc — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:25:52 +0000

My humble 2 Euros says Sidewiki will have more of a (possibly negative) impact on blogs than integrating Twitter.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:43 +0000

I’m one of the people Kelsey’s talking about. I’m busy and Twitter gives me that space to quickly interact with flockers and others. As for Facebook, that’s just an account I have. If I update or check facebook, it’s usually on accident.

For the record, I’m fine having my tweets appear on clusterflock just not sure if other people will want to see them.

By: Kelsey Parker

Kelsey Parker — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:51:03 +0000

What Cindy speaks of, with the jumping around from clusterflock to Twitter to Facebook is why I had to stop feeding my Twitterstream into my Facebook. It got so confusing and unnecessarily complicated. On Twitter I’d tell y’all about the hard day I was having, and suddenly some girl I went to elementary school with is telling me to hang in there on Facebook. So, now, I use my Facebook to say stupid things that mean nothing to me, and hopefully make those obsolete friends think I grew up to be awesome.

Oh, but that’s not what you were asking about. Twitter has definitely made it possible for some flockers to feel connected to each other’s daily lives without commenting/participating on the site here. Some days my only interaction with clusterflock (let alone the Internet) are through a shout-out of HEY I’M UP ON THIS HILLTOP WATCHING MY CITY, Y’ALL! One-sided and mundane, generally.

Who knows if that belongs on clusterflock!

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:25:01 +0000

I’d like to see the Twitter feeds of the flockers who would like to participate integrated into the flow of posts on the front page somehow.

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:20:05 +0000

I’ve purposefully avoided twitter, despite occasional temptations to jump in (it’s the only way I’d get to talk to Tracy again, for one thing). But I really, really dislike having to jump around a lot–one thread on cluster, another on twitter, another through facebook, another through email. To me it’s like the burden of having to change clothes to go the gym, then change back to return to work. Fuck the gym.

By: Andrew Simone

Andrew Simone — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:19:23 +0000

Your correct, Deron. I have been mulling it over for some time. I think what ever is the case, it is simply posting tweets on a page somewhere. We need something more than that.

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:12:41 +0000

I think a lot of the conversation is there and lately I feel it is incumbent on me to figure out how to reintegrate that into the site.

By: Amanda Mae Meyncke

Amanda Mae Meyncke — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:10:52 +0000

I joined Twitter to keep up with other clusterflockers. That is the only reason. I felt like the conversation had moved there in many ways, and didn’t want to be left out of that.

But I don’t know now.

By: range

range — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:03:34 +0000

Dunno. I tweet. It’s different than blogging, kind of like a new way of commenting things in a short way. I find that following too many people gets confusing.