Comments on: Twitter is not an exercise in narcissism http://eatsleeppublish.com/twitter-is-not-an-exercise-in-narcissism/ Thoughts on the future of publishing Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:24:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Shander http://eatsleeppublish.com/twitter-is-not-an-exercise-in-narcissism/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Bill Shander Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:36:52 +0000 http://eatsleeppublish.com/?p=1017#comment-1388 Here is a great place to see how narcissistic Twitter is (or isn't) - http://www.everytweet.com - it's an ongoing filter of the public Twitter feed - so every 7.5 seconds, a new Tweet appears. It's an interesting ongoing view of the Twitter world - you see everything, from the banal to the interesting, from self-promotion to poetry. It's worth 90 seconds (and revisiting at different times of day to see the languages and character sets from around the world as the time zones shift.) Here is a great place to see how narcissistic Twitter is (or isn’t) – http://www.everytweet.com – it’s an ongoing filter of the public Twitter feed – so every 7.5 seconds, a new Tweet appears. It’s an interesting ongoing view of the Twitter world – you see everything, from the banal to the interesting, from self-promotion to poetry. It’s worth 90 seconds (and revisiting at different times of day to see the languages and character sets from around the world as the time zones shift.)

]]> By: Jason Preston http://eatsleeppublish.com/twitter-is-not-an-exercise-in-narcissism/comment-page-1/#comment-1275 Jason Preston Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:03:01 +0000 http://eatsleeppublish.com/?p=1017#comment-1275 <a href="http://eatsleeppublish.com/twitter-is-not-an-exercise-in-narcissism/#comment-1266" rel="nofollow">Liz</a> - The way I use Twitter, I don't particularly mind auto-tweet bots. I think that if CNN wants to have a breaking news twitter, that's awesome. I'll follow it if I want to and I don't have to "read" every tweet. If you're after me, a bot will work some of the time. Other people are obsessed with reading every tweet, and so they keep their list down to 100 or so people and don't follow bots. If you're after them, any mechanization is probably fatal. Liz – The way I use Twitter, I don’t particularly mind auto-tweet bots. I think that if CNN wants to have a breaking news twitter, that’s awesome. I’ll follow it if I want to and I don’t have to “read” every tweet.

If you’re after me, a bot will work some of the time.

Other people are obsessed with reading every tweet, and so they keep their list down to 100 or so people and don’t follow bots. If you’re after them, any mechanization is probably fatal.

]]> By: Liz Colville http://eatsleeppublish.com/twitter-is-not-an-exercise-in-narcissism/comment-page-1/#comment-1266 Liz Colville Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:09:45 +0000 http://eatsleeppublish.com/?p=1017#comment-1266 Using Twitter as short-form link journalism is a great idea; the only tricky part is making sure you still stick to your publication's voice. It's great getting tweets from CNN, Talking Points Memo, et al, because it's faster than e-mail and of course faster than checking out the sites every couple of hours. RSS'd or humanized, Twitter is great. But yes, better some combination of the two. Using Twitter as short-form link journalism is a great idea; the only tricky part is making sure you still stick to your publication’s voice. It’s great getting tweets from CNN, Talking Points Memo, et al, because it’s faster than e-mail and of course faster than checking out the sites every couple of hours. RSS’d or humanized, Twitter is great. But yes, better some combination of the two.

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