Background Noise
Tuesday, 20th March 2007
So, there’s something that I’ve noticed about Twitter:-
To all those people who wonder if the constant stream of other-people’s-consciousness is distracting, the answer is – not really, until it goes away.
I’ve become used to the notifier in the bottom corner of my screen popping up from time to time, but increasingly TwitterIM is down and I find I have to go and manually check if everyone is still around.
Anyone else find this?
FatBusinessman:
Yup: most definitely.
Tuesday 20th, March 2007
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Meriblog: Meri Williams’ Weblog » links for 2007-03-20:
[…] Elly Thompson’s Weblog » Background Noise “To all those people who wonder if the constant stream of other-people’s-consciousness is distracting, the answer is – not really, until it goes away.” Elly has totally nailed this one. (tags: twitter absence presence im instantmessaging web2.0 ellythompson ellywilliams) […]
Wednesday 21st, March 2007
at 12:15 pm
John Oxton:
Twitterfic is pretty cool http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
Wednesday 21st, March 2007
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Elly:
@Mr Oxton,
unfortunately I’m PC based (damn the construction industry’s reliance on AutoCAD) so Twitterific isn’t an option.
If anyone knows of an alternative that doesn’t require me to install .NET, that’d be good.
Wednesday 21st, March 2007
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KevanV:
I totally agree about twitter.
I’ve half moved to Jaiku.com.
It’s similar to twitter but allows you in import you twitter feeds into it and then there is comments – wow that transforms it.
Friday 13th, April 2007
at 10:57 am
Guy Rintoul:
So true. Just rediscovered this post, and what with the amount of Twitter downtime recently it’s somewhat pertinent…!
Friday 6th, June 2008
at 12:17 am