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it’s pretty easy to compare messages sent by various mass media outlets via twitter. it’s also pretty surprising how they spin the same information in different ways.
update: mainstream media never fails to disappoint. an hour after posting this, CBC went live with the actual story, in line with how the Herald spun it on their first try. sigh.
what is it with twitter that makes people forget how to find things on their own, or how to communicate using any other medium? I now refuse to respond to tweet messages that are essentially “I’m too lazy to google, but am hoping you can google for me” or “I want an answer, but don’t want to read the tonnes of great, in-depth resources available online. please spoonfeed me.”
fracking twitter.
I don’t remember when the last time was that the front page of my blog only went back 3 days. I’m definitely blogging more after dropping out of twitterville. Definitely having more fun with the blog, anyway.
I still don’t miss twitter one bit – but I’m finding that I do miss the sense of connection to many of the people that I saw primarily on twitter… I’m finding I get bursts of realtime communication – sometimes people pop up via IM – and smaller bursts of asynchronous – emails, flickr photos, blog posts… Maybe that’s a healthier mix, rather than the constant flood of quasisynchronous updates.
I deleted my twitter account. After posting almost 11,000 tweets over a year and a half. And I don’t miss it. I don’t regret it.
Twitter is a strange, unique beast. At first blush, it’s a tool to connect people and to share information.
But that’s not really what twitter is, at all.
Twitter is probably one [...]
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now that I’m not obsessively hitting refresh on twitter.com I seem to have so much more free time online. It sounds silly, but my “check in” process used to hang on twitter, and now it only takes a couple of minutes to check in on everyone and everything I care about…
I just deleted my twitter account. I’m not going anywhere. I’m not looking for reactions. I’m not dropping out. I’m still online, still available, and still easily contacted via better channels. If you need to contact me, try the contact form on my blog, or IM (dnorman@mac.com), or Skype (dlnorman), email (contact at darcynorman.net), etc… [...]
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I just deleted Twinkle from my iPod Touch, too. I don’t like feeling addicted.
the twitter-checking compulsion is too strong. I’ve modified my hosts files again so twitter only exists on my iPod Touch.
the twitter effect
February 26, 2010 · 10 comments
in general
Rereading Alan’s post on his blog hiatus, where he takes a month off of posting on his blog to comment elsewhere, I was struck (as always) by the patterns in activity he described. I decided to take a closer peek at the activity on my own blog – I’ve been thinking a lot about discourse [...]
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