City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name... - 4 views
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A channel to multiple publics
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more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month
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part-technological, part-social communication media
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A window on what is happening in multiple worlds
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knowing how to look
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start my wordflow for the day with something short and lightweight
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Openness
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Immediacy
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Variety
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Reciprocity
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I'm surprised that Twitter can't present a conversation in a meaningful way. Compare with Identi.ca running StatusNet, examples: http://identi.ca/conversation/12018048 http://identi.ca/conversation/12000057 http://identi.ca/conversation/11701331#notice-11822415
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Asymmetry
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A way to meet new people
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Community-forming
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I needed an authoritative guide to
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I needed a guide to configuring a microblogging client (twhirl) to work with a StatusNet server. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I gained an answer.
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communities can emerge
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A platform for mass collaboration
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Searchability
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gain value - useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues
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tuning and feeding
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some kind of ongoing relationship
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knowing how to tune the network of people you follow
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how to feed the network of people who follow you
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IRL ("in real life")
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some personal element going, but not to overdo it
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not crank up the self-promotion
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skills to use productively
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If it isn't fun, it won't be useful
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attention literacy
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ten to twenty minutes to regain full focus when returning to a task that requires concentrated attention
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Comments
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ambient awareness
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html
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definitely worth adding to the mix. Thank you, Stephanie
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Implicit reputation/credibility filters
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a recovering drop-out
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connecting on many different planes
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/may/12/computer-science-it
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back channel conversations during my presentations
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one of the best explanations of the value and intricacies of twitter
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"Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it."