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+I’m not saying that having so few characters to work with can’t be frustrating, and I hereby predict that Twitter–sooner or later, in one fashion or another–will lift the limitation. But in most respects that matter, I think the 140-character count is one of the best things about Twitter. It forces people to get to the point. It helps them become better writers by forcing them to delete superfluous words.

+I have actually landed jobs as a result of being on Twitter and following the right people (and having them follow me). For me, that's reason enough to keep tweeting.

+I discover things (via links in tweets) that I would not have gone looking for, but am glad I found.

+1.Not every service should be for every person. Being concise is not necessarily a bad thing. The person's main argument seems to be an overstimuli of internet tools, which is understandable but not a reason to bash a new service. 2. Most of the writers on twitter say that it's replacing their blogs. They wrote blogs in order to connect more with their readers, which is easier and usually more fruitful on Twitter. I think it adds more conversation. twitter is more about conversing than simply relaying information. 3. It is really helpful for hearing about news earlier than other services, if that's what you're into. I think that's more the beauty of twitter: making it your own by choosing who you follow, who you listen to, who you respond to.

+it brings together a lot of information from many sources into one stream, and sometimes, one of the thousands of pieces of information in the stream can indeed be valuable. most of the people (I know) under the age of 22 does not use RSS feeds unless they are hugely tech inclined. So they do result to twitter and facebook for news/uselessness. Maybe if we had some better filter tools so we could me more selective in what came into our stream the whole thing would be easier to see value in.

+Twitter is in fact a great way to broadcast blog posts and breaking, and a degree of abbreviated discussion about relevant topics, to a wisely developed audience

+I tweet to bridge with friends, get them together, share music (I have discovered much thanks to twitfriends), post links to petitions, send linked info on issues that some of my contacts may not know about or consider. I like reading other's povs, images, music, political observations, activist activities in this context. sometimes I just like sharing funny or ridiculous videos etc.

+I use Twitter because it is a great way to find out new information about my field- classical music, specifically opera. By following the people in my field, I've actually made some very interesting connections and found out what it's like for people further on in my field. The public nature of Twitter makes it much simpler than facebook for this purpose.

+it leads me to other extensive resources and interesting opinions from people I'd never otherwise have met. It has actually become my window into the Social Web allowing me to focus my attention to my own specific interests.

+First, I was offered a job via Twitter, which seems like a good fit for my skills. Second, I've connected to some interesting organistaions, which I would not otherwise have known. Third, I've created and joined some interesting and professionally enhancing groups on Twitter. Again, I would not have met or encountered them in my day-to-day life.

+I'll posit that Twitter isn't about communication per se, but communication+discovery. I was tweeting before I knew why I was tweeting - but then Twitter showed me something it's good for that simply can't be reproduced any other way.I'm working on a Drupal project that's pretty obscure -- a laboratory information management system, aka LIMS. Because I'm interested in all things Drupal, I have a Twitter search on "drupal" (without the hashtag) that shows up in my Twitter client (Tweetdeck). One day someone tweeted "I am working on a LIMS in Drupal. Is anyone else?" Well, heck yeah. I tweeted back, we emailed each other, and we now have a working group on groups.drupal.org with 10 other people around the idea of building a LIMS in Drupal.

+I use Twitter to broadcast very specific information that a small number of people want, that cannot be obtained from any other source.Useful information that certain people want to hear. If you're not interested, don't follow me.

+σε σχέση με άλλα:Status messages are used to broadcast short ideas to an audience in a multitude of existing applications. Messenger, ICQ, Facebook, idle messages on IRC, even finger (back in the day)!... its all the same except that its not: each is a walled garden. Those status messages are trapped. You have to convince your friends to join you and lock themselves into the same garden as you...While twitter isn't a low-level protocol to be open and integrated into the greater Internet, it does have one advantage: you don't need an account to view status updates from a user (unless they're marked private of course). It's still a garden, but there aren't any walls.

+I think Einstein said that if you can't say something simply and succinctly then you don't understand it. Twitter has helped restrict my wordiness.Additionally, Twitter can be used to quickly poll public opinion. A company or other organization might be able to see what customers are saying about them or what people are saying about public health care.

+Before Twitter we did not keep up to date each other so frequently.

+when it is used effectively, Twitter can be a valuable information tool.Through Twitter, I have discovered new businesses and sources of information (such as blogs) that wouldn't have discovered if it weren't for Twitter. It has also helped me network with other like-minded people and share info with them.

+I don't auto-follow people and I don't follow everyone that follows me. I follow those that I feel will give me added value to my day and have something (information or otherwise) to contribute to my learning process in my interested fields.To really get the benefits of Twitter, use it to follow and network with others in your own interested fields/topics. That is the true value of services such as Twitter. By using Twitter in this way I have made some great connections with people I might not have otherwise crossed paths with.

+Knowing what people are saying in the present about a particular subject is exactly Twitter's greatest asset. And, yes, it's open by default; but if you just want to keep it private among your circle of friends, you can.microblogging's purpose/use : seeing real-time opinions/exchange as a powerful aspect of search/information.

+Twitter can be full of stupid nonsense, but it is a great way people, and especially companies, can send out mass broadcasts. Instead of needing to have users go to your website, sign up for your newsletter or subscribe to (yet another) RSS feed, they can simply add your ID to their Twitter feed and easily follow your updates. It is bringing your content directly to the user, instead of making them come to you. Your followers get the benefit of only listening to what you say when they want to, and do not have to clutter their inbox or feed reader just to receive a newsletter or an update, which they may not want to read.

+Twitter is faster than email and facebook ... an easy way to keep in touch. When you link all your social media apps together - it makes it that much easier to update your facebook, blog, ff, etc. One action - multiple updates.

+Twitter, for me, is an incredible professional tool that links me to many other professionals and experts in my field. These experts are often far too busy to maintain blogs, but they CAN maintain 140 characters and point out articles, resources and provide insights.Facebook has become far too personal. I would never add my clients on Facebook, nor would I be able to add the CEO of some player in my industry.LinkedIn, conversely is TOO impersonal. It's a glorified resume and, again, I don't get access to experts and authorities in my industry or get an idea of what they're thinking or what they're working on. Twitter excels due to its simplicity. There are no long, complex profiles full of personal information. You can keep your tweets as personal or impersonal as you want. By not forcing one usage, Twitter can be different things to different people and this is the huge value in it. The best thing Twitter has done all along is not enforce rigid structure, and has let the end-users shape the use cases.

+I find Twitter to be a huge time-saver for me. I follow people in my industry to keep updated on what's happening. It's much quicker for me to see what's going on there than to subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds.I have conversations all the time on Twitter, with people I probably never would have had any interaction with otherwise.

+Twitter to me is quite convenient when it comes to updating short sentences which I am too lazy to post in my personal blog.

+Twitter does three things really well. The secondary effects of these things make it popular. First, Twitter enables (almost) infinite scaling up of topics and conversations through hashtags. Example: #iranelection. Secondary effects: support for usually-small groups with population/interest spikes for events; ongoing popular topics. Second, Twitter supports instant, quick peripheral participation in events, topics and interest groups. Example: #edchat Secondary effects: good for cause recruitment; one-time event participation Third, Twitter supports "backchannel" discussions in large face-to-face events. When a presentation is going on, a lot of people have short quick thoughts they can either whisper to the person in the next seat, or jot down on their paper. Twitter provides a venue for sharing these short thoughts, effectively making all participants next-seat neighbors. Again, you don't have to friend people or join groups. Example: #necc09 Secondary effects: networking with conference attendees; making presentations more democratic; co-presenting with the audience.

+Whether you find Twitter interesting or banal depends on who you choose to follow. You don't have to follow all those dreary marketers or teenagers with hangovers—there are millions of people to pick from and some of them are very interesting.Twitter is neither good or bad, interesting or boring. It is what you make it.

+I can discover information endorsed by people whose views I admire/respect/have-interest.

+Twitter allows you to follow AND UNFOLLOW people. The most you get acquainted to twitter, the most you learn whom to follow and whom to unfollow.

+Twitter helped me reach people I would have had a much, much harder time reaching

+I treat Twitter as part random data stream, part annotated RSS, part get-a-focused-message-out-to-people-with-similar-interests tool, and part meet a few people I wouldn't have otherwise.

+1. keeping in touch with old college friends without awkward phone calls or emails that never get written. facebook is a bloated pile of bullshit apps and a newsfeed about people i dont care about. twitter was like a clean slate for me. 2. following blogs that are not interesting enough to spend time checking the site every day. i get a tweet when they post, if it sounds interesting, i check it out 3. local events. i live in manhattan and some of the best info on shows, restaurants, train delays, etc is found in tweets, whether it be a specific tweeter or a search. 4. also, i consider the "trending topics" to be an interesting summary of our current collective cultural conscience, granted sentience by the internet.

+it has a lower barier to entry compared to blogging, it encourages people who don't know each other in the real world to collaborate unlike facebook, and it has retweet.

+as a primary index onto the world. The word 'index' is key. Of course you need to follow links and do searches and read more content, but twitter is the portal.The a posteriori experience turns out to be amazingly rich, but only if you train the neural net, only if you tune your list of following, only if you really work at it.

+99% of tweets might be useless and pointless. But there is a certain type of message that's perfect for the medium -- reaching out to thousands of followers, and getting reactions in real time. There's simply no other medium with the convenience, critical mass and immediacy of twitter.

+it enable people to build networks though shared interrests, which can be or not related to products.Twitter is a great way to notify interrested users about updates done to what you do, would it be a blog, software... it's convenient and shouldn't be neglected.

+it defaults to public (something IM doesn't do), it archives everything (IM clients, AFAIK, don't archive away messages) and it has this incredible way to finding new people to chat with and listen to in a way that IM never did.

+I believe sometimes constraints can force you to be more creative. Sometimes less is more elegant. Smaller pieces of info are also easier to digest. Yes, you can do the same in fb or any other publishing platform

+It helps me feel connected to the web in small doses. Scanning headlines, picking the best bits out of the news based on the people I trust finding it and spreading the word.

+As an international teacher, I use it to connect with colleagues around the world that I wouldn't normally connect with and if I need help with something, I tweet it. I get tons of responses and share learning or help others. For me, Twitter=Personal Learning Network.

+I've gotten multiple companies to address concerns I have had by tweeting about them. Something that they were failing to respond to via "normal" means of communication.

+for me it's like headline writing in a newspaper. The tweet/headline is appealing and entiving you will want to read tposts, votes, invitations, events, feeds. Of course its faster than other medias.

+twitter is not just a social media for breaking the news and it does makes sense and spreads the communication in few seconds. it helps to develop business.. It has its own value as do ο»Ώemails, IM, messages, posts, votes, invitations, events, feeds. Of course its faster than other medias.

+Basically its nothing in itself. Its upto the user how they use it.Ιt hold and solve different purpose to different people-->that is why i like twitter it gives me freedom to use it the way i want it to use it.

+1) Tweets have more value than your average web content because they've been scrubbed by the filter of the people you trust. 2) Nothing is "complete" (thank g*d) that's what makes life fun. 3) Twitter replaces Google and errr that's actually quite big news. I get MUCH better recomendations from my twitter followers than I do by searching the web for "wisdom." 4) Agreed but you've got the totally wrong expectation of twitter -- breaking news is not its primary use case. 5) Stop thinking about using twitter to "say stuff" and start thinking about using it to "do stuff" and you'll get it.

+as event announcement, twitter is useful.

+Here's where I do find use for it: following online publications. I'm into web design and there are 479375 sites out there dedicated to web design. I follow some of their twitters because sometimes they find something cool and useful out on the net that they don't want to make a big long post about, but they'll have no problem tweeting a link to it. which I don't have the resources to spend all day on the net looking for new stuff in web design

+I use twitter to find other people like me (mental illness), in a more anonymous fashion than facebook. The conversation collection of multiple tweets is where the content (& trust) is generated. Many that I follow, find twitter invaluable as a source of group therapy.

+Connect with experts in my or ANY field Interview thought leaders with no barriers Get a job Meet new and interesting contacts 'Bookmark' interesting links for later consumption

+I used to blog but since I started using Twitter, the effort to write a good solid blog post about something just seems like too much.

+1) It is a great way to advertise your services People who find my posts useful will see me as an expert in my industry and contact me for business. 2) I can see what people say about my products and services to identify early problems or trends 3) I can find coupons to businesses I personally follow

+It doesn't have as many features as Facebook but that's part of the point. It is simple and easy to use.

+ It creates quick trusted sources of pre-screened information.

+I personally use Twitter to share links - I follow people with similar interests, who also share links to information / articles I probably would not come across unless I had read their tweets.

+I never follow anyone who follows me unless I know them or their tweets are of some interest to me. That's the beauty of it -- you don't have to follow anyone.

+you're thinking that people have some list of sites that they go to every day and read the new content there. Or perhaps they use a feed aggregation mechanism to do much the same thing. You know what? I simply don't have that kind of time.Instead, I use Twitter (and more and more lately, FriendFeed) to follow people with similar interests as myself. From them, I gather links, and following those links lets me see interesting things from the entire web, instead of just that blog segment I happen to be subscribed to.

+Twitter is chat 2.0, IM 2.0, etc. Real-time messaging with whomever you want. It's an improvement because it's ad hoc and doesn't immediately require two or more people to do something

+I follow people on Twitter because I discover and connect with people who have either interesting perspectives or have stumbled on interesting information that they are sharing (the human powered search and filtering engine effect) - people who I don't think I would have encountered in any other way. It also is useful for "micro-announcements" and again some people prefer to receive the information in this fashion since they can choose how they will received it (web, on cell, in an RSS reader, embedded on a web site etc).

+One thing Twitter has going for it is the relatively light user interface - a tiny feature set that is available on almost anything that has a processor through one approach or another. It does not have a steep learning curve.

+because it's only 140 characters, no one expects me to be terribly profound or verbose (like they would if I blogged it).

+140-character limit is one of my top three. (The others being locating anyone worth following, and how to understand a 'conversation' between two posters

+my short answer as to why I use Twitter is simply, RESEARCH.

+I find it a convenient way to follow news outlets and blogs (such as this one) without having to go to a dozen different sites to check them and I never really cared for RSS. I also use it as a networking tool finding connections to other people in my field that have become useful resources at times

+I prefer to tweet because facebook is too personal, an ego cult tool

+I can discuss with people, briefly about one subject without losing time (and space).

+Twitter allows a real-time human network.

+people who are following you are people who can hear you and people who you follow are people you can hear. Otherwise it's just a chatroom.

+the conversation is stored so you can search it later

+Twitter as any social tool also helps you creating virtual friends, that share the same interests.

+I don't quite think every link my friends shot are importante, but those from persons i give credit to I end up opening and seeing.

+First, it's the easiest way to connect (no approval process, just hit the "follow" button). Second, it is a great way to "cover" an event (I can get a live "you are there" feel of a conference going on across the country just by watching the twitter feed from the comfort of my office). Third, when used well in connection with web sites, blogs, etc., twitter can help get any message out in a timely way.

+I tweet things which have some news value to it. Things which i think my group of follower may find interesting its my way of saying hey check this out. There are things we all come across in a days work and want to share with other people but we get busy and forget about it. Through twitter i can do it at that very moment. And well if you are not interested ignore it. At the same time i come across so many interesting stuff. And well if i am not interested i ignore it. So in short for me its just another tool for sharing information.

+There is no quicker way of keeping up to date with technology that you might be interested in. Blog posts? Fine if the blogger is known to you Blog posts by knowledgeable folks you don't know? Impossible without Twitter... Or wasting time... I read more relevant, useful & informative blog posts thanks to Twitter, often by bloggers I don't know but whose posts have been tweeted

+One of my favorite uses of Twitter is getting live information from events & conferences. If I can't attend in person, I can always count on someone to tweet useful tidbits that I otherwise would have missed.

+1 - information gathering. That is, links to relevant/interesting blog posts/articles etc. (i'm pretty specific about the people I follow, typically, they produce/share interesting stuff). 2 - networking. 3 - conversation monitoring (be it about my company, our work, or our clients).

+its an simple, efficient and entertaning communications service that allows you to construct eccentric networks of people who might be interested in whatever it is you tweet about. Twitter is easy to use (though its utility is harder to see immediately) and, at least for me, incredibly flexible.

+you can create a twitter feed that alternates between the voices of your friends and the voices surrounding public issues that you care about.

+I follow too many blogs to RSS or feed into my inbox thus Twitter is my medium for news consumption, for weeding through all information in the most efficient and quickest manner possible.

+I believe no other mechanism connects bloggers to the readers as good as twitter does.There lies it's value.

+tweets are both searchable AND disposable - I'm sure we all have hundreds of rss feeds / bookmarks / etc we mean to read and never get around to. Tweets give you a feel of what's going on without having to stop whatever else you are doing.

+I can jump in and out of my Twitter stream whenever I have a minute. If you get over the fact that you'll never read every tweet that comes in, it becomes extremely time efficient.

+Here at work I have 10 or 15 very smart engineers to bounce ideas off of and learn from. On Twitter I have thousands...

+I'm a teacher. In the staff room I have a handful of colleagues to work and collaborate with. On Twitter I have a global community of educators. It's not a cacophonous torrent of babble - OK, some of it is, but I can choose whose babble gets through to me - it's a filtered stream of knowledge and feeds.

+Facebook is something you have private lists of friends who you both agree to follow, with a complete profile and it stores your pictures and so on and so forth.Twitter, on the other hand, gives you a profile with a 1-line "bio", a location, and a display picture (of which, most don't even appear to be of the person who owns the account). Twitter is what RSS feeds should have been. Twitter is much more anonymous than Facebook is, and the people who follow you often don't know you. You were found by them searching for a particular topic.

+it's concise, focused and you get to the point.

+i like being able to do my updates and talk to people, from my phone.

+I like the fact I can see what's the latest thing going on; and search real-time deeper

+I was a big opponent of twitter until I started using it regularly and following the people that I find interesting.Also, often times the news I get on twitter comes to me faster than the main stream news sites. Considering the availability of information today, this is probably one of the biggest selling points for others as well.

+Twitter is highly valuable from an SEO and Aggregation standpoint.

+Twitter news does have a certain something. A certain urgency, since it’s part of an expanding wave of retweets, and you’re expected to tweet it forward.

+If I can't grab someone's attention in the first 140 characters what makes me think I can in 4 paragraphs? Twitter in my opinion makes you a better writer and teaches you to express your ideas in the most efficient way possible.

+I used to scan blogs I follow in the morning before heading to work, now I am exposed to a larger base of articles and tweets where I am able to quickly pick out what I am interested in reading at that point. The problem with following blogs is that most of the time you won't find something interesting on them every day, you will on Twitter.

+Twitter is kind of like a dynamic browser and social bookmarking tool.

+on Facebook your interests may not be aligned with your friends as much as they are with the people you follow on Twitter.

+Twitter is a great aggregator, and works great aggregating news which explains why traditional media hopped on it.

+A lot of tweets as fascinating as “I am eating an apple” or “I am going to brush my teeth” were made. But, as you guess, this quickly bored people and so they started elevating the debate, by speaking about technology, politics, news etc. So Twitter is a set of thoughts. It is a sphere of thoughts, it is a … thinkosphere

+Twitter is real time, you get a news as soon as it happens, you get someone’s thought as soon as it is formulated. Twitter sends Signals (or stream or flow) because the set of thoughts is not static, you can easily process it (like in Digital Signal Processing) or filter it.

+Using the advanced search you can also filter for the language and a couple of other parameters.

+Twitter is about signals because their digital public interface (API) is very well done so you can generate automatically a tweet for instance from a blog post (eg using twitterfeed) or from a social bookmarking application.

+You can also export your twitter stream to your blog (you can see mine live on the right sidebar of this blog).

+You often make new friends by talking to people with whom you share some common interests. On Facebook you are more or less supposed to add as friend people you already know.

+You are also supposed to use some real name (στο facebook). It is not the case on Twitter, you have a pseudo and you can follow who you want, in general the reason is based on some common interest you share with the other twitterer.

+with Twitter you can blend all the rss streams in one chronologically ordered stream.

+νεά από πολλές πηγές, διαχωρισμός μέσω αναζήτησης και με χρήση hashtag

+put a question and somebody answers, ability to recommend things from people with similar interests, ideas (oi άνθρωποι γενικά θα στέλνουν κάτι το οποίο βρήκαν ενδιαφέρον, καλό εργαλείο για προτάσεις)

+χρήση στην τάξη: μεταγνωστικοί στόχοι: οι μαθητές προτείνουν πώς να ενημερώσουν σε tweet σχετικά με το τι κάνουν στην τάξη, σε σχέση με τους μαθησιακούς στόχους

+συζήτηση ανάμεσα στους μαθητές, εύκολο να εκφράσουν τη γνώση τους, διαμοίραση πηγών, είτε μέσω υπολογιστή, είτε μέσω κινητού, ευκαιρία για ντροπαλούς/διστακτικούς μαθητές, σημειώσεις, επικέντρωση σε κεντρικά νοήματα, λόγω συντομίας 140 χαρακτήρων

+it would be a mistake to judge Twitter by what it’s like at its worst. Like novels, magazines, and movies, Twitter is a judgment-neutral container. it’s your own dang fault for continuing to follow someone who you find boring. Twitter, unlike a crowded airplane, is not a place where anyone is forced to listen to someone else blather; you’ve got complete control over whose tweets you do and don’t read

+the best twitterers I know tweet only when they have something interesting to say. And that something is often an opinion, an observation, or a link to something worth sharing, rather than an answer to the question “What are you doing?”


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-What can be said in 140 characters is either trivial or abridged; in the first case it would be better not to say it at all, and in the second case it would be better to give it the space it deserves.

-Twitter is a bunch of friends sitting around a table, all shouting at the same time — and shouting mundanities at that. The @ function just means you shout somebody’s name before the mundanity. Everyone else still has to listen. Conversation is impossible; every exchange is telegraphic (as is, unfortunately, increasingly true in other media).

-If you like other people finding your content for you, on their schedule, this isn’t a problem, but for me it is.

-if someone is so regularly finding content of merit, why don’t they have a blog where the content can be given context, discussion, and perhaps a preview so people aren’t going in blind?

-that is nothing that you cannot get with a mailing list

-The number of Tweets generated is infinite (since many/most are generated automatically, we can assume this will only continue and grow exponentially to be an infinite number). The number of valuable Tweets is finite. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero (or a number infinitesimally larger than, but never equal to, zero, or f/I=1/I).

-weren’t we saturated with information before Twitter came on the scene? Do we really need a constant hail of tweets in addition to the emails, IMs, messages, posts, votes, invitations, events, feeds, and god knows what else?

-I'd rather read an interesting blog where I could discuss things and converse amongst other people. That's what the internet is all about!

-No one should be on Twitter. We're a nation of big fat slobs who can't figure out why health care costs so much. Any "spare" moment someone has ought to be devoted to self-improvement, reading a book to a kid or cleaning the damn house. Enough with the silly gadgets, already. Do a push-up.

-I want to communicate and say something to someone, I go to Facebook, say hello and call it a day. If I want to get a job contact and do some networking then I use Linkin. I mean that's all I can handle for now.

-It has especially empowered those who couldn't be bothered to sign up for an actual blog, much less go out and have a conversation with somebody in the real world about a topic that interests them.

-the average kid no longer grows up on the streets, or anywhere else physically. The 21st century digital boy grows up on the internet. The things he grows up with are facebook, youtube, twitter;

-Every time you are interrupted by a tweet alert your focus goes somewhere entirely different. IN fact, where is your focus at all?

-When I want news, I use RSS feeds, or go directly to the websites I want to read. If I want breaking news and interesting stories, I go to reddit or Digg and find them myself. Twitter is like fishing through the crap on Digg and reddit that has no votes because no one wants to read it.

-most peoples spelling is atrocious even with spell check; and grammar? Forget about it.

-δεν είναι καλύτερος τρόπος to look up people in your field, find interesting articles or blogs, etc. -->because of: the format of the platform, its signal-to-noise ratio, and just the fact that there's so incredibly many people on it. (Regarding the latter, it seems to me that the odds of finding people I don't already know and wouldn't have located otherwise, and who I find worth the "following" time, are small and getting smaller all the time.)

-most people use twitter only for marketing and so i dont care for such tweets

-Twitter is a useful link index? What about delicious, stumbleupon, digg, slashdot or technorati? (All which offer RSS/Atom, have done so for quite some time and have more users/visitors than twitter).

- it's just all these marketing people all marketing to each other. I don't want more noise in my life and I don't have time for it.

-disappointed that "wisdom" - commonly associated with the "collective mind" theory - is lacking in the twitter community.

-I don't like the tweets, they don't give enough information that I'm able to decide if the link behind is interesting enough to click.

-The links in them, useless. As you said, they are crippled. I say they are insecure and will be broken at some point, just as it happened with Tr.im. Usage of shorteners disconnects the tweets from the data they link to, and makes orphans in the era where we try to link up everything more so that it is more accessible.

-I still have to discover how twitter is a better index than my fine tuned rss feeds

-People lose the ability to think properly if they're continually marinated in constant streams of rapid-fire of stimulation and information. It makes a person shark-like--life is just constant motion and reaction, moving moving moving, never stopping to think because stopping will make your heart stop and thinking is scary. A life full of SMS doesn't just kill grammar, it kills contemplation and logic and reflection and many other things...

-However, relate that to the time spent on the service

- I was unable to participate in the lack of thinking that goes into a "tweet"

-it's the watering down of discussion and thought. and it's self-centered and attention-grabbing soulless crap.

-I believe Twitter will be used mostly by brands (for marketing, CRM, etc) and 'influencers'

-I do laugh at the people (not sites) that are following a 1000. There is no way they are reading anything and are just trying to see who can get the most followers.

-Many people use Twitter because it's a lot like listening to gossip and living through other people's lives vicariously.

-Its known that facebook is working on a "light" version. As soon as that is out why do we even need twitter? Facebook is so much better..

-I don't use it because I think it really sucks that I can not see what link i am clicking whit those url shortening thingies and then i see 20 times the same website

-I don't use Twitter because I don't feel that it is a valuable way to communicate with people. Time and attention are very important.

-I receive links to real articles. Is this a new technology? No, definitely. It adds nothing. There are plenty of technologies that already do this.

-there are plenty of people that really don't have anything interesting to say in 140 characters in the first place.

-most of the people on Twitter are Robots and only for sole purpose of marketing there products or services. Twitter use to be a Website where we can put our updates and thats it, but it has now become a full phenomenon of marketing.

-On the twitter website you cannot make groups, you cannot manage several accounts. You are limited to 10 searches. You cannot have a multi column display. To have all these things working you need a twitter client. Groups do not exist on Twitter so you must recreate them for each client you use.

-You cannot subscribe to the tweets of someone, filtered by language.

- no advanced filtering.In clients you can’t. The only thing you can do is using Twitter advanced search.

-Twitter is awfully spammed. It is the new heaven for spammers. Fortunately Topify helps you quickly knowing if a new follower is a spammer

-noise stupid shallow narcissism

-Twitter is a significant commitment that burns up a lot of time that busy people simply don’t have.Reality: I blame Twitter itself in part for this mythconception. Here’s how it defines itself on the homepage you see the

first time you visit, before you have an account: [...] frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing


 * ΘΕΤΙΚΑ-ΑΡΝΗΤΙΚΑ ΣΧΟΛΙΑ**

-+The only practical use I've seen it have is for professors to give quick information about assignments, but other than that is a popularity contest for people with diarrhea of the tweet.

-+I agree that Twitter has been ambushed by 'social media gurus' but don't you think that all types of media suffer from that? As soon as there is a viable, new communications method, marketers and advertisers will try and manipulate it for commercial use

+-The sharing links part is what I see as its main strength, and probably, only future direction.

+-vehicle for spam.Αλλά μπορεί να αντιμετωπιστεί: όχι follow και ίσως block


 * ΤΙ ΘΑ ΕΠΡΕΠΕ ΝΑ ΒΕΛΤΙΩΘΕΙ**

-->-I agree that the 140 characters limitation seriously dump interesting discussions; for this reason I do prefer an "hybrid model", in which each post (as usual, 140 char long) do allow comment to be attached, these latter NOT limited in the number of characters: the model of Jaiku (and now, Qaiku). Oddly enough, these platform still fail to reach the popularity of Twitter...

-->-I do wish we could banish certain robots

-->-I have true hatred towards all things Twitter/Google/start-up/venture capital/jocks-on-parade, yet I am simultaneously entranced by the spectacle and the possibilities of the technologies involved.

-->Nobody's really knows what this "collective online mind" really says but that is where signal processing (filtering) should enter. (It has already begun through search, advanced search, word tracking and other filters).

--> people haven't really figured out how to use it most effectively.

-->Most people should just stay in the readers category (say 90% of people ? :/) and writers should focus on what matters the most.

-->ίσως σημαντικό το να παρέχει κάποιος στοιχεία για το προφίλ του, ώστε να μπορείς να βρείς εύκολα αυτούς με ίδια ενδιαφέροντα


 * Twitter vs RSS**

+Twitter is what RSS should have been. I couldn't agree more. RSS is the victim of twitter like OpenID is the victim of Facebook Connect. It's probably due to the simple truth that user-facing internet services can usually create a better user-experience than standard organizations. Here are some of the differences: 1. It can be tricky for most users to subscribe to an RSS feed - it's different when using an online service or a client and it takes effort to learn. This is the most basic and critical functionality - and it fails there. I really could stop here. 2. RSS is ok for a blog, but it might be interesting not only to follow what your favorite blogger deem important - but also what your colleagues/friends do (and not everyone has a blog..). RSS is not a good personal broadcasting solution - and there's no real reason to use two different services here. 3. RSS doesn't let you explore. I think someone is interesting - and i want to see who is he following... not with RSS. 4. RSS doesn't indicate metrics of popularity. Not that i think that popular is necessary good for everyone - but knowing that someone has many followers is useful - even if it just means that I would look more closely into his account before deciding whether to follow him.

RSS had a lot of promise. I believe it couldn't deliver it. Open standards are great but sometimes it's just too challenging to design an open & distributed standard that is also easy to use.

+It's easier than digging through RSS feeds and other news sources. Generally more current as well-twitter may be "real time" but you have to click links to articles anyway. From an efficiency standpoint, RSS is vastly superior. The news comes to you, and the whole article is there - no need to click on links elsewhere.