This is definitely what reading twitter posts is like. It would be hilarious to see people's reactions if they really could see what was being tweeted about them.
This video ties in to our discussion about twitter as a revolution vs. twitter as evolution. I think that his is essentially an evolution of the status update on facebook. Obviously twitter is really simply a constant status update. This function of twitter, as shown by the video, is fairly negligible in my opinion. I don't think that people really care, or want to hear about, what you are thinking all the time.
However, there definitely practical uses for twitter, like the traffic jam example that was mentioned in class. I think that for the vast majority of people however, this video would be a good representation of what they are actually doing when they are tweeting, and how much people care.
I think twitter is very useless in a sense where it is just randomly updating your status of what you're doing and he definitely shows what real life people do everyday. I don't see how people could use twitter. I feel like people just do this to get attention.
Even from my experience with facebook, I feel like most people who update their statuses a lot are just trying to get more attention. Sometimes people post amusing things, but a lot of the time it's just useless info that nobody really cares about - whining about having 5 papers due the next day, trying to "subtley" tell everyone how emotional s/he really is at the moment, etc. That's the reason I don't tweet: I don't want to have to deal with more of that, and if the benefit is to find out useful information about traffic every 100 or so posts, it would probably be more effective to just listen to the radio, look up stuff online, or text someone with my immediate concerns directly.
This is definitely what reading twitter posts is like. It would be hilarious to see people's reactions if they really could see what was being tweeted about them.
ReplyDeleteThis video ties in to our discussion about twitter as a revolution vs. twitter as evolution. I think that his is essentially an evolution of the status update on facebook. Obviously twitter is really simply a constant status update. This function of twitter, as shown by the video, is fairly negligible in my opinion. I don't think that people really care, or want to hear about, what you are thinking all the time.
However, there definitely practical uses for twitter, like the traffic jam example that was mentioned in class. I think that for the vast majority of people however, this video would be a good representation of what they are actually doing when they are tweeting, and how much people care.
I think twitter is very useless in a sense where it is just randomly updating your status of what you're doing and he definitely shows what real life people do everyday. I don't see how people could use twitter. I feel like people just do this to get attention.
ReplyDeleteEven from my experience with facebook, I feel like most people who update their statuses a lot are just trying to get more attention. Sometimes people post amusing things, but a lot of the time it's just useless info that nobody really cares about - whining about having 5 papers due the next day, trying to "subtley" tell everyone how emotional s/he really is at the moment, etc. That's the reason I don't tweet: I don't want to have to deal with more of that, and if the benefit is to find out useful information about traffic every 100 or so posts, it would probably be more effective to just listen to the radio, look up stuff online, or text someone with my immediate concerns directly.
ReplyDeleteAt least we can rest at night knowing that the Library of Congress has all the tweets...
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