Twitter: What are you doing?

I’m doing a bit of Web experimentation on Twitter.

It’s a simple service that let’s you post short messages on what you’re doing. It sounds useless but as usual if your social network is there, then the service starts to be really fun to use. Tom does a good explanation on the usefullness of it.

I think Twitter feels like something between a blog and an IM conversation.

There’s already an API and (of course) a Wordpress plugin that updates Twitter each time you post.

With the API people are starting to do all sorts of automatic updates. I have mixed feelings about this. This sends the human factor away but at the same time it’s a real log of your life which sounds really interesting (if scaring). A filtering solution might be the use of tags.

As I said Twitter is an experiment. On the Web this kind of experimentation is a good thing. This is the way crazy ideas are able to be tested and maybe become working services.

I haven’t tested Jaiku but the service (created by Jyri who I’ve met at Reboot) adds a few extra layers of information, like location. I think Jaiku is prettier and richer (you can add pictures) and it has a sort of filtering that makes it easier to navigate the messages. Must try this one.

December 15, 2006 | Tags: day to day

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6 Responses to “Twitter: What are you doing?”

João Antunes on December 15th, 2006

Check this concept:
http://www.binarybonsai.com/about/stream

Wordpress plugin also, and you can add everything that has RSS.
João Antunes on December 15th, 2006

Wrong address on the previous post, here’s the right one:
http://binarybonsai.com/about/lifestream
Testing Twitter at odrakir.com on December 15th, 2006

[...] I followed Andre’s take on Twitter I decided to create an account and take a “test drive”. [...]
Nick Dominguez on December 15th, 2006

Andre,

Although I often find myself questioning the reasoning behind using Twitter myself, what I really like about it is many times you’re able to get a fuller or richer idea of what a person is really like, for example if you meet someone at a particular place or event you tend to make assumptions on what that person is like based on how and where you met them.

What Twitter does is give you a better idea of what the person is like based on where they are at and what they are doing. Does that make sense? Hopefully
doispontocinco » Twitter, Jaiku e Hictu on December 16th, 2006

[...] O André escreveu sobre eles e o Ricardo convidou-me. Estou a falar de dois novos serviços: Twitter e Jaiku. O Ricardo ainda me convidou para o Hictu. [...]
ajmb on January 7th, 2009

API is a fine thing:

Check out : http://ajmbarros.blogspot.com/2009/01/xml-api-mit-php.html

With just one ore two simple functions… you can take a HTTP-POST XML request and then work with it.

There are many Websolutions that decide to manage content by API-Calls even internal. To let Users use a API is a high plus, that can makes you special.

If you have got a large content of automatic created Information, using a API is the only way to get comfortable.

greets: ajmb (ajmbarros.blogspot.com)