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"Twitter made an important announcement this week regarding their ability to filter content across..."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:52:45 +0000

“Twitter made an important announcement this week regarding their ability to filter content across jurisdictions. The ensuing conspiracy theories and hand-wringing in certain corners of the internet were depressingly predictable, and as I tweeted this morning:
If you’re upset by twitter’s per-country filtering announcement, you know much less about doing business online than you think you do.
But posting such a thing without laying out “things you should know about doing business online” is, frankly, smug and irritating. So, here goes.”

- Simon Batistoni: What you need to know about Twitter’s new filters.

Well worth a read, because he knows what he’s talking about.

Redacted Twitter Comments by David Jason Pressgrove. Mixed...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:09:00 +0000

On diplay as part of Mississippi Invitational at the Mississippi Museum of Art. (Unfortunately the 300px square image is all I can find on a quick look.)

"The previously shunned third-party app platform is really the only way to experience the true depth..."

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:44:31 +0000

“The previously shunned third-party app platform is really the only way to experience the true depth of Twitter now. Twitter took a very narrow feature set, and then suppressed some of those features under the premise of monetization, and what’s left is not as enticing.”

- M. Wunsch: Griping about New Twitter in more than 140 characters

In case you were in any doubt who Twitter is for these days:...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:56:12 +0100

In case you were in any doubt who Twitter is for these days: Introducing Twitter Web Analytics.

"The value of the web is in its history. The value of the web is that it grows over time and that it..."

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:59:36 +0100

“The value of the web is in its history. The value of the web is that it grows over time and that it spiders out making connections, just as often doubling back on itself to find previously unseen patterns and connections. It is not a linear progression through time and space always discarding the near past. Or if it is then I’m sorry for wasting everyone’s time because that sounds about as exciting, and about as valuable, as any given season of canned television programming.”

- straup again. (Everyone else picked this quote and somehow I missed it.)

"Back then people didn’t have any idea what Twitter and Facebook, and by extension Social Media as a..."

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:56:10 +0100

“Back then people didn’t have any idea what Twitter and Facebook, and by extension Social Media as a whole, was for, so dicking around with bubble machines and bridges was fine. Let the nerds have their fun while the rest of the world gets on with important things that actually make money. But now, in 2011, we think we know what Twitter and Facebook are for. They’re for selling things.”

- Pete Ashton: Tower Bridge and the End of Innocence.

"This strategy appears to be in full effect with the latest crop of photo-sharing applications who, I..."

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:35:57 +0100

“This strategy appears to be in full effect with the latest crop of photo-sharing applications who, I think, are confusing their perfectly reasonable desire not to deal with the drudgery of storing lots of files with the idea that transience is some kind of world view. And that’s what bugs me.”

- Aaron Straup Cope, Towers of History. (I haven’t even finished reading it yet and I’m posting quotes.)

Two-screen Eurovision watching.

Sat, 14 May 2011 21:29:00 +0100

Two-screen Eurovision watching.

"Rather than generating trends based on the location of a tweet, [Twitter] should instead show trends..."

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:24:39 +0000

“Rather than generating trends based on the location of a tweet, [Twitter] should instead show trends related to what is happening in my timeline, who I am following and who my followers follow.”

- Justin Williams, in The Real Problem With Dick’s Bar.

I don’t think that’s wrong, but one thing I’ve realised in the year or two I’ve been suggesting that local trends / recommendations from contacts would be more useful than global trends is what a horrific engineering challenge it is.

It’s one thing to roll up the top posts from a few tens of millions of users into one set of top trends. It’s quite another to roll up the top posts from hundreds of users into millions of sets of top trends. Sure, Twitter’s got a lot of engineers now, but that’s still hugely difficult. Much as I’d like to see it, it’s far easier to suggest than to implement.

"What I really need to do is just unfollow everyone and start over again. But again, there is too..."

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:27:07 +0000

“What I really need to do is just unfollow everyone and start over again. But again, there is too little time, and Twitter’s official clients don’t have a good way to do that. I could write my own script for that, of course, but people have been banned for such activity in the past, and I’d rather not chance it.”

- Chad Eitzel, in the meandering but interesting Twitter and Me (via Instapaper).