More Twitter Ramblings
Whenever I spend some time thinking about why I don’t like something, I inevitably stumble upon some way it can work for me.
After my last post regarding Twitter, it occurred to me that I could enter the update feeds of friends into Gmail’s Web Clip bar.
This eliminates the interruptions that occur when the updates come to my phone. It also removes the hyper linear nature of it. I only see updates when I check my email. Then Gmail chooses one to show at random. It may be the newest… or it may be from days ago. There’s a bit of chance involved. A bit of chaos. When I see an update, I may have other context to put it in. Maybe from conversations with the person, posts on their blogs, or things other people have passed along. For me, this feels more natural. More human.
Which brings up a question… I wonder if Twitter users subscribe to people they weren’t previously acquainted with? Is the type of content Twitter’s structure encourages interesting without other external context to place it in?
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Yes, lots of users are connecting with people they have no formal acquaintance with.
It’s fun to receive friend invitations from people you have never met, and then explore their connections to try and figure out who they are.
I haven’t actually gone around asking people I’ve never met to be my friend, but I don’t do that on any social network system. Yet.
> It’s fun to receive friend invitations from people
> you have never met, and then explore their connections
> to try and figure out who they are.
That’s a web-wide game waiting to happen!
You fill out an information “card” with a few urls and some other identifying information.
Then you get another person’s card.
Check out the links…
Do some searches…
Finally you enter what you think you’ve learned about them into a form.
For every person you described, you get a description of yourself in return. ...With a handy LJ postable summary.