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New research indicates that Twitter is more of a one-to-many publishing channel, rather than a one-to-one conversational medium. - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs...
September 10
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"At the same time there is a small contingent of users who are very active. Specifically, the top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. On a typical online social network, the top 10% of users account for 30% of all production. To put Twitter in perspective, consider an unlikely analogue - Wikipedia. There, the top 15% of the most prolific editors account for 90% of Wikipedia's edits ii. In other words, the pattern of contributions on Twitter is more concentrated among the few top users than is the case on Wikipedia, even though Wikipedia is clearly not a communications tool. This implies that Twitter's resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network."
- Kasper Sorensen
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It really sucks as a one-to-one medium. Talking in Twitter is like shouting in a crowded hall.
- RK
Interesting take. FF is much better for conversation between more than one person. But I think Twitter is great for exactly that shouting in a crowded wall. Understand me right, you pose a question or issue for debate. People respond, and you can selectively decide with whom you want to carry on the conversation.
- Kasper Sorensen
It feels like SMS thought except it's on the web. It's a bit confusing unless you use clients that provide threaded replies. Seeing someone converse with someone else on Twitter is just weird, especially of you don't follow the person he's talking to.
- RK
@kismet sure, for one's followers, a conversation can seem pretty unrelated to anything. As the follower this type of conversation is noise for me. But for the people in the conversation, I find it can be quite useful, IF; you keep the conversation short and to the point. More than 4 message exchanges, and the medium loses it's point.
- Kasper Sorensen
Sorry man. Been busy. It's just that your followers shouldn't have to deal with that. It just adds to the noise in their streams. It's just too messy. At least for me. For conversations, you're better off in Friendfeed or Plurk.
- RK