Comments on: Donning the Twitter Condom

By: Ruminate » Blog Archive » Twitter Pruning Principles

Ruminate » Blog Archive » Twitter Pruning Principles — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:03:30 +0000

[...] that I don’t know. Of course, if I protected my updates that would be different. But on that, my position hasn’t really changed: I don’t see that locking provides enough benefit to outweigh the [...]

By: chiz

chiz — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:14:04 +0000

Good post. You make some great points that most people do not fully understand.

“I understand the motivation– in fact I’ve been expecting this for a while given the strong implicit desire amongst info-oriented Twitterers (most of those I follow) for private group capabilities of some kind– but I don’t really agree with it.”

I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks.

By: » Prologue: Twitter-Inspired WordPress Theme WPMu Ed

» Prologue: Twitter-Inspired WordPress Theme WPMu Ed — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:12:08 +0000

[...] to the discussions surrounding the value of Twitter, for folks like Alan Levine, D’Arcy Norman, Chris Lott (I wear my protection with pride, Chris!), and many others have done a far better job than I ever [...]

By: chris

chris — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:43:54 +0000

Having someone else control your content is true of almost every social web service– you are using their app. You can, of course, keep an archive of your data with Twitter (as I and many others do) just a you should with flickr, del.icio.us and others.

The technology behind Twitter isn’t of particular interest to me… nor is it relevant to what I was talking about, which is the way people and communities USE Twitter. Users could care less what language and formats are being used, it is the functionality they care about. And Twitter clearly scratches an itch.

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:42 +0000

I am still skeptical of the twit(ter) to start with. Not only is it not the best implementation I have seen (API mushups often require sharing your password with third parties) but at the end of the day I do not control the content once typed. Someone else ones the storage.

If this were implemented as size limited XML feeds in bound and out this would be another story.

By: 5tein

5tein — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:52:55 +0000

I think there's plenty right with controlling one's output or intake of information. I like Twitter so much because it is somewhere in-between blogging and chatting/instant messaging. What's cool is to watch it evolve. I remember at one point Scott bemoaned folks who were using Twitter as a chat board (I'm sure that was me, but then again, so was everyone else on his following list). And now people are wondering how it is used, how it should be used, and even .

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:21:16 +0000

As I mentioned at the time, in my own case it wasn’t so much the viewability *within* twitter that bothered me as how the twitter “badges” (widgets) were causing my tweets to get spewed around the net on people’s blogs who I don’t read and don’t follow in twitter, simply because they “followed” me. That was what caused me to go private. I totally understand that when I was tweeting in public I was relying on security through obscurity, and that even now it’s not particularly secure or private; but for me it’s a question of “private enough” and “obscure enough” – I’m obviosuly wanting to reveal things to people and converse otherwise I wouldn’t post them at all – but that doesn’t mean I want them to rise to the top of a google search. The twitter badges were what shatterd the “enough” part for me.

By: on twitter vs. the blog - D'Arcy Norman dot net

on twitter vs. the blog - D'Arcy Norman dot net — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:51:53 +0000

[...] This post is in response to Chris’ Twitter Condom post. [...]

By: chris

chris — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:45:53 +0000

Talking to myself: the role of lurkers in communities is interesting and this brings that to light. Maybe some of those people I don’t know and who don’t know me who follow me silently will make an important connection for me someday.

Also, different peoples’ approaches to community management are fascinating. I met someone a few days ago who manipulates their flickr contact list every day, promoting, demoting and removing contacts all the time. I’m the opposite– I have to find a reason to make those changes. A number of people following me are those people who are trying to amass thousands of contacts. I should block them, but in the end why bother?

There’s more than one person in my top20 who I discovered through incredibly serendipitous routes that people would never suspect are actually useful… such as a random find on a Twittervision map.

Not to mention those gray area apps like: Tweeterboard and the truly useful things like Tweet Scan…

Ah, the webs we weave whether or not we choose to deceive…