[Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
Soon Wan Ting
wtsoon at nus.edu.sg
Wed Nov 11 20:52:37 PST 2009
Hi all,
While we are on the topic of Twitter, here is the online version of an
article dated 26 October in the International Herald Tribune if you
have not seen it yet. I shared this with my classes when we were
discussing how digitalization and media convergence are changing the
way consumers are interacting with cultural/technological products and
how successful companies may very well be those who are able to tap on
and leverage on users' innovative consumption patterns. The articles
highlights two new Twitter features - Lists and Retweet.
[1]http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/twitter-leaves-design-experts-users-
001
Regards,
Carol Soon
Doctoral Candidate
Communications and New Media Programme
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
__________________________________________________________________
From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Mary K. Bryson
Sent: Thu 11/12/2009 12:41 PM
To: live; air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
The blog that I was quoting from concerning the redesign, was published
yesterday, and is written by Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, announcing
that:
This week on Twitter, we're rolling a feature we've been working on for
a
while out to a lot more users. (If you don't have it yet, you will
soon.)
That feature is our native version of Retweet, which Biz posted
<[2]http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/project-retweet-phase-one.html>
about on
the Twitter blog a couple months ago.
[3]http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
Seems like a done deal.
Cheers,
Mary
--
Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and
Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry
(CCFI),
Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
Archive: [4]http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
CCFI: Innovation Works Here
[5]http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
> From: live <human.factor.one at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:34 -0800
> To: Mary Bryson <mary.bryson at ubc.ca>
> Cc: danah boyd <aoir.z3z at danah.org>, <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
>
> By the by - Rael said that they've pulled back the deployment of this
> feature redesign.
> Apparently there were some technical difficulties. So retweet design
> is on hold for the time being.
> Hopefully while they figure out the backend issues, they can also
> rethink the design strategy.
>
>
> Sharon Greenfield
> Digital Ethnographer
> @SharonG
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
>
>> Thanks for sending this fabulous paper, danah -
>>
>> Danah + colleagues' paper provides lots of really good examples that
>> underscore the socio-cultural complexities of retweeting - and to
>> the point
>> here, specifically what will be lost in Twitter's own redesign of
>> the RT
>> syntax. Twitters redesigned syntax --
>> Described here --
>> [6]http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
>>
>> --drops the identity of the sender of the RT as a communicative
>> agent out of
>> the RT message. This break in the social economy of Twitter's crowd
>> sourcing
>> network eliminates the additional information provided by the
linkage
>> between the author-A- of the tweet that gets retweeted by Sender-B -
>> and
>> that information, in the case of my own use of Twitter, is
>> specifically and
>> importantly part of the reputational economy that tells me fairly
>> reliably -
>> Sender B provides very reliable information about blogs and consumer
>> health
>> info - for example - therefore, I will likely want to take 5 seconds
>> and
>> click on this URL. If I don't know author-A - and this is how the
>> retweet
>> will show up in Twitter's new design -- as a message from someone I
>> don't
>> actually follow - the likelihood that I will look at the URL is
>> close to
>> zero.
>> Much <intelligence> is lost in this redesign.
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>>> From: danah boyd <aoir.z3z at danah.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:15:44 -0500
>>> To: Mary Bryson <mary.bryson at ubc.ca>
>>> Cc: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
>>>
>>> I share your disappointment. Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan, and I
>>> investigated
>>> retweeting practices in the spring and summer and found a whole
>>> plethora of
>>> different practices that are not supported by this implementation.
>>> We wrote
>>> this up in a HICSS paper that will be published and presented in
>>> January, but
>>> we've made a draft version available for those who want to know
>>> more about
>>> retweeting:
>>>
>>> Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on
>>> Twitter
>>> danah boyd, Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan
>>> HICSS 2010
>>> [7]http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> danah
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
>>>
>>>> RE: Why Retweet works the way it does
>>>>
>>>> [8]http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
>>>> <BY: Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American
>>>> entrepreneur who has
>>>> founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator
of
>>>> weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, of which he is
>>>> currently
>>>> CEO.>
>>>>
>>>> I think it's interesting that Ev <creator of Twitter> misses the
>>>> most valued
>>>> function of the retweet <to this user>, which is the linkage
>>>> between the
>>>> retweeter and the original author of the RT tweet - the creator of
>>>> Twitter's
>>>> new modification of retweet removes the citation factor - The
>>>> current
>>>> Twitter syntax of say, Richard Smith retweeting something about
>>>> surveillance
>>>> and blogging makes me follow a link about say, blogging, precisely
>>>> because
>>>> Richard Smith is citing it. For the URL simply to appear in my
>>>> InBox from ZX
>>>> would be meaningless. This is a good example of where a tool
>>>> designer fails
>>>> to talk to users about what is good about the actual design and
>>>> what would
>>>> then, be lost in the supposed "improvement".
>>>>
>>>> Mary
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and
>>>> Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry
>>>> (CCFI),
>>>> Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
>>>> Archive: [9]http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
>>>>
>>>> CCFI: Innovation Works Here
>>>> [10]http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
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>>>
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References
1. http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/twitter-leaves-design-experts-users-001
2. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/project-retweet-phase-one.html
3. http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
4. http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
5. http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
6. http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
7. http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf
8. http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
9. http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
10. http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
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