[Air-L] Who to UnFollow

[Christophe Prieur]

> 2009/7/1 Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>:
>> There is also the approach of buying followers.  I keep seeing  
>> online ads
>> that for something like $50 you can buy 500 followers.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dave Karpf <davekarpf at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>  Compare those to
>>> twitter-via-laptop or -desktop and you have a completely different  
>>> user
>>> experience.  I never used twitter until I downloaded tweetie,  
>>> because I
>>> found it a less-appealing distraction than facebook and a couple  
>>> of favored
>>> blogs and discussion boards.  With the mobile client, I now check  
>>> twitter
>>> while waiting in line for coffee or sitting at a red light.   
>>> Mobility and
>>> platform have a huge impact on how I'm experiencing the medium,  
>>> and that in
>>> turn shapes my normative opinions about how people should and  
>>> should not
>>> use
>>> the medium.
>

I hate that when people quote pages of other people's sayings before  
even starting their own post.

;)

--	Christophe.



Le 3 juil. 09 à 15:11, Emma Duke-Williams a écrit :

> 2009/7/1 Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>:
>> There is also the approach of buying followers.  I keep seeing  
>> online ads
>> that for something like $50 you can buy 500 followers.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dave Karpf <davekarpf at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>  Compare those to
>>> twitter-via-laptop or -desktop and you have a completely different  
>>> user
>>> experience.  I never used twitter until I downloaded tweetie,  
>>> because I
>>> found it a less-appealing distraction than facebook and a couple  
>>> of favored
>>> blogs and discussion boards.  With the mobile client, I now check  
>>> twitter
>>> while waiting in line for coffee or sitting at a red light.   
>>> Mobility and
>>> platform have a huge impact on how I'm experiencing the medium,  
>>> and that in
>>> turn shapes my normative opinions about how people should and  
>>> should not
>>> use
>>> the medium.
>
> I've read this thread & the one about "Trivial Twittering". As others
> have pointed out, what's trivial to me, mayn't be trivial to others.
> Also, most of the people who I've heard to grumble about twitter being
> full of trivia about breakfast are generally using that as a reason
> not to use it - rather than those that have used it.
>
> Someone else also mentioned getting annoyed about apps that post to
> twitter; I've not installed any, nor do I think that many of my
> contacts have, as I rarely see them. I guess, though, I've done the
> equivalent in the past of feeding twitter to facebook. I didn't leave
> it there long, as I realised that I get bored with other people's
> twitter to facebook updates, so I've disabled it. I still have a lot
> of friends who do it - so maybe it doesn't bother them as much. Or
> perhaps they don't think about it - who knows. (And do the app users
> enjoy reading what their contacts apps have posted, do they not know
> how to disable them, or don't they care?)
>
> There's another person I follow who complains no end about people
> using #tags for conferences they're at - yet others find them very
> useful.
>
> Looking at some of the "How To " Guides for Twitter, it strikes me
> that many of the authors believe that *their* way of using Twitter is
> the best; and thus others should use it in the same way. But, going
> back to the example of the tweeter who hates #tags - and those of us
> who like them. Who's "right"? Is anyone?
>
> My personal view is that we should use it as we see fit; sure, there
> is always a role for sharing of what we consider to be best practice
> for us, but it's ultimately what suits me best that I'll do.
>
> Someone also mentioned buying followers ... there was an article about
> that on the BBC website yesterday:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8130456.stm
>
> -- 
> Emma Duke-Williams:
> School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of
> Portsmouth, UK.
> Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw
> SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker
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