Comments on: More Thoughts on Twitter http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:53:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/#comment-12475 Stilgherrian Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:53:34 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/#comment-12475 <strong>@Simon Rumble:</strong> Craig and I continued the discussion on Link, which you may have seen, and indeed <a href="http://planet.linux.org.au/">Planet Linux Australia</a> was his gripe. I argued that this was not Twitter's fault, but the fault of the humans who poured their Twitter feeds into their blogs, or the fault of PLA for failing to filter. "If you watch an open sewer," I said, "you <em>will</em> see turds." Craig did not agree with me. <strong>@Cait:</strong> Agreed, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_business_model">freemium</a> is the way for Twitter to go. Advertising would kill it stone dead, I reckon. @Simon Rumble: Craig and I continued the discussion on Link, which you may have seen, and indeed Planet Linux Australia was his gripe. I argued that this was not Twitter’s fault, but the fault of the humans who poured their Twitter feeds into their blogs, or the fault of PLA for failing to filter. “If you watch an open sewer,” I said, “you will see turds.” Craig did not agree with me.

@Cait: Agreed, freemium is the way for Twitter to go. Advertising would kill it stone dead, I reckon.

]]> By: Cait http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/#comment-12467 Cait Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:42:00 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/#comment-12467 Twitter's business model should be freemium. As soon as there is a TwitterPro, I'm paying for it. I would gladly pay for a few friends too. Twitter is useful and there are plenty of more complex services that could be paid for. Fastest speed, search, groups, corporate use with local phone number (in Australia), multi-tweet. I just hope they don't go with the ever-shrinking advertising market. Twitter’s business model should be freemium. As soon as there is a TwitterPro, I’m paying for it. I would gladly pay for a few friends too. Twitter is useful and there are plenty of more complex services that could be paid for. Fastest speed, search, groups, corporate use with local phone number (in Australia), multi-tweet. I just hope they don’t go with the ever-shrinking advertising market.

]]> By: Simon Rumble http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/#comment-12432 Simon Rumble Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:24:36 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/more_thoughts_on_twitter/#comment-12432 What is high on Craig's agenda is that some Twitter feeds are syndicated out through planet aggregators like Planet Linux Australia. While the twittings of people may well be of interest to those who know the person, to a disinterested observer they are contextless, deranged ramblings of someone seemingly descending into madness. A lot more thought goes into the average blog post, and the best bloggers attempt to make them stand on their own, without needing to read forward or ahead. Twitter has none of this, and so should not be lumped in with blogs. What is high on Craig’s agenda is that some Twitter feeds are syndicated out through planet aggregators like Planet Linux Australia. While the twittings of people may well be of interest to those who know the person, to a disinterested observer they are contextless, deranged ramblings of someone seemingly descending into madness.

A lot more thought goes into the average blog post, and the best bloggers attempt to make them stand on their own, without needing to read forward or ahead. Twitter has none of this, and so should not be lumped in with blogs.

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