Corvida - May 2, 2008
I can definitely sympathize. Even though I’m in the US, the city that I stay in is pretty non-technological, let alone social. Getting people to use social networks is a tough thing. Even though they have their benefits, it’s not for everyone and everyone isn’t particularly fascinated with the web in the same way that we are unfortunately.
As a student it was not unusual for me to spend no more than six hours a day at home. The rest of the time I was out socialising, whether helping post grads with their work or with those from my studies. As a result of this I started to pay attention to many of the social networks. It had shifted from Facebook where all my real life friends could be found to more abstract social networks such as twitter, jaiku and others.
Farouq Taj - May 6, 2008
Boycott Twitter comment {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:“http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/cLSxVM5Nco_th1.jpg”}“title”:{“value”:“Boycott Twitter comment “}“videoUri”:{“value”:“http://www.seesmic.com/video/j4tlLCBLTT"}}}
That’s why I use jaiku {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:“http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/YRwLb6LXiV_th1.jpg”}“title”:{“value”:“That’s why I use jaiku “}“videoUri”:{“value”:“http://www.seesmic.com/video/rUIBfi5lPG"}}}
I’m not the only person that’s annoyed with the vast amount of downtime suffered by twitter and there is a call for an international boycott of twitter on may 21st. During that day we’ll be using other more reliable services to show that twitter is nothing without the community that makes it what it is. Twitter has been having some serious issues over the last few weeks. It seems that the service is down almost as much as it’s active.
For any of those that have never used Jaiku before here is a typical conversation from the users. They’re all interested in mobile phones and what they can do. It’s a nice change from twitter’s web 2.0 and social media slant.
Of course I’m the most active twitter user in Geneva, as if that was going to be a surprise to anyone. Before that I was London’s most active twitter user with over 5000 posts in a month back in December.
Once more twitter has shown it’s value. An earthquake occured earlier this morning and people started to twitter about it within half an hour. people like Robert Scoble started linking to the story. It took at least an hour for most of the major networks to start speaking about this news. There’s a lag of course, as journalists have to do some research, get some reports and distribute them. I did a search on the twitter search engine flaptor and here is a little taste of the content of those tweets.
For those of you who know me as Warzabidul you’re probably used to my incessant tweeting, when not at work.. Two days ago twitterfone came out, a service that allows me to call a number and tweet by voice. The system is still in very early stages but works great. The idea is that you register on the site and provide your country and phone number, associate your twitter account as well and wait till your number is registered.
Damon Aka. Dacort on twitter has come out with a new toy which meant that Meg Fowler deleted all her direct messages. Twitter is both public and private. Tweets are the public portion and DM are the private. Dacort came out with a Firefox tool that allows you to quickly delete tweets from everyone or individuals. I tried it earlier but I can’t bring myself to deleting everyone’s DMs at this moment in time.
richard - Apr 0, 2008
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