Barnett pointed me at this, via twitter, appropriately enough. Sam Houston is maintaining a list of twitter feeds of people in the industry who don’t mind it being public. And what a list for cheery stalking. For example, we can swiftly find out that Ragnar Tornquist’s favourite comfort movie is Lost in Translation, George Broussard’s wondering where the Pizza has got to and Valve Software – er- want us to know that there’s some deals on Steam. Well, it’s not all stalking on there, mores the pity.
As a matter of interest, how many RPS readers are on Twitter? I’ve done a poll beneath the cut. Feel free to explain your reasons in the comments.
Do I have a twitter account?
Ignore the n. It’s a bug. We can’t do anything about it, because we have a tiny brain and we’re far too busy posting non-sequiturs on our twitter account.
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Finally got around to sorting out my account afew months back at the insistance of Willeth. Turns out he was following some pretty interesting people. ShawnElliott floods my twitter page with a constant supply of links and every now and then I feel an urge to stop following him, then he sends out an absolute gem of an internet find!
It’s like playing an MMORPG, hours of grind for that one moment glory/hilarious bug that somehow makes it worthwhile.
Yes, I have one and I use it like one time a month. It’s very awesome.
I don’t use twitter because I don’t really get it. That said I’m not really interested in blogs (as a technology I mean – I do read one and technically I have my own!), or online social networking and I only just tolerate forums because people stopped longform-insulting each other on usenet.
I get enough small-talk and chit-chat in RL!
For those interested in a rather intelligent look at Twitter: Mark McGuinness wrote a great article about why, despite the bad initial impression he got (and most of us get) about Twitter, he was wrong about Twitter (and why it’s actually quite great).
I watched the intro to twitter video on the “why he was wrong” page you linked to.
The guy says something about how you don’t tell your all your friends that you are having coffee because they don’t need to know and then goes on to ask but what about the people who want to know? I am more worried about who these people who want to know that I am having coffee are, what is wrong with them and how quickly I can get a restraining order enforced against them.
Mark says “Maybe Tweets are the digital equivalent of all the snorts and grunts and trumpetings and flicking of tails by which herds of animals maintain contact and cohesion…”
Which basically sums up everything that horrifies me about the modern internet. Orgy Porgy!
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good to see it’s still there.
I dont use twitter because i dont know anyone that uses it. A surprising number of computery-types still dont even know it exists, it seems to be a very specific to certain groups kind of thing.
Yeah, the video that Mark put at the bottom seems to completely contradict what he’s saying about Twitter. It’s everything he actually wrote that reflects a lot of what Twitter is good for. (The casual-conversation-with-interesting-people effect, if you will.)
I signed up, and it turns out not a single person I know uses it. So now im just following people from here. And ms. Alexander.
I keep getting dragged into these things. First it was just face to face, phonecalls, letters. Then e-mail. Message boards. ICQ. Various IRC channels. AIM. MSN. Now I’m also on the dutch version of MySpace. It always gets to a point where I simply decide to scrap most of the means of digital communication. I’m already wondering when I should dump that MySpace thingie.
So, Twitter? No thanks, really.
I have one, but use it once in a blue moon. Stalk– following people on twitter would consume the precious little free time I have left.
I am amazed with it. It is a good thing for my research. Thanks
I have one, too. I’ve never commented at RPS but have been reading for quite a while. I tried out Twitter early last year and didn’t like it at all….found it a waste of time. A month ago, I decided to try my hand at it again and while it’s still a waste of time for the most part, I’ve found it to be an interesting waste of time here and there, so I’m sticking with it now.