I guess I dont have to write this blog post. You've got it covered. Great to read it the way I see it. And besides, you reminded me to check out the Track feature. I forgot about it.
catepol
· 2 years ago
so...It's me...:-) same use, same reading, same idea of twitter in the little Italian twittersphere...Not your numbers...but applied perfectly to my more than 500 following/followers (for Italy is a big number)
beth kanter
· 2 years ago
make a jingprojecy screencast!
Jim "Genuine" Turner
· 2 years ago
It's like going to a cocktail party and trying to hear what everyone in the room is saying. It is simply impossible. I pick out some things to talk about with others I follow and sometimes I have original thought and start a Twitter thread. Others are just a funny thought that comes to mind or a microblog post. I too read all @ replies and either respond if needed or DM or email friends.
tony
· 2 years ago
I would love to see a video of your twitter behavior similar to the video tim ferris did of your google reader habits. Also, a lot of events and conferences make twitter feeds, what about event specific accounts that add in ebent specific functionality? Maybe even rsvping for parties, paying for stuf etc...
Jim Long
· 2 years ago
You're so right about this particular tool NOT being for everyone. I takes time, energy and effort, but it can be immesely useful in creating conversation and directing attention. So now I know when to find some @scobleizer quality time...Milan's feeding time!!
Boris
· 2 years ago
You might want to check out TwitterMail (yeah, I came with the idea) to keep up with replies. It made Twitter work for me because I now simply receive every reply in an email which makes it sooo much easier to keep up and with and reply to stuff.
Scott Monty
· 2 years ago
I don't know if it's just me, but being a bit of a newshound and an insatiably curious social networker, I find that I constantly have the desire to go back through my archives every morning (or every time I'm not connected for a bit - flight, family stuff, etc.). I can't stand thinking that I might be missing something.
At a certain point, I have to stop myself. I realize that I can't be everywhere, I can't take in everything. That's part of what having a strong network of friends and colleagues is for. It's akin to an executive who is confident enough to hire staff that are smarter than him/her.
So, if I miss any breaking news or amazing developments, I'm sure my peeps will uncover it so I can learn about it from them. I don't need to be the first one reporting on stuff - after all, I'm not the Associated Press...
Mark \"Rizzn\" Hopkins
· 2 years ago
Speaking of the track feature, one of my disappointments with the Twitter API is that you can't 'track' keywords via the API or an RSS. I put together a Yahoo Pipe for it while I work on a better solution in PHP.
"Usually while I’m sleeping Europe and Asia are going full tilt."
that goes the other way round as well. I live in Germany and I follow you and some others from the US (like dave, marshall kirkpatrick and some more), usually around 3:00 to 4:00pm the US-people start to kick in. until then it's mostly us europeans for me. :) the funny thing is: even more than with blogging, twitter brought to me this subconcsiousnesslike sense of one earth, of people being connected on the planet everythere. I mean a few years back I really didn't think about different timezones and all, why should I had to anyway. Now I get remembered of that every day, most of the time (when being online and yaddayadda).
that sounds stupidly pathetic and probably doesn't make any sense. :)
santiromero
· 2 years ago
Robert, you also follow people that twit in other languages like me (in Spanish). Just curious, do you actually read them? understand them?
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
santiromero: I see them, but can't understand them. Sometimes I see a word I'm interested in and translate them.
Laura Thomas
· 2 years ago
Great post to help explain Twitter - will forward to some newbies I know.
And, thank you Boris for TwitterMail! It and Tweetbar combined have been what's made it possible for me to become so engaged in Twitter.
Mike
· 2 years ago
I suffer the same affliction mentioned above by Scott Monty. I get my tweets incoming via the Google Talk IM tool, so when I fire up the ol' lappy-toppy in the morning, the night's tweet come pouring in. I read them all.
When I was gone for a week for my honeymoon last month, I came back, pasted the whole mess into a more stable Notepad instance and slowly sludged through every...single...tweet. Sad but cool. Time consuming but worth it.
Of course, I only follow about 40-50 people (and have about the same number following me).
Dennis Goedegebuure
· 2 years ago
Hi Robert, I showed you Twitter mail last week on Stanford Photo Walk. You can get updates send o you by email for an aggregated overview of all responses made to you. I use this all the time, as it will free up a lot of your time. Next to that, the twitter mail functionality itself is a blast. Just sending an email with your update, that is neat.
Cheers
D&G
Alexander van Elsas
· 2 years ago
Can anyone point me to a good alternative for Twitteriffic for a windows based machine (sorry about that :-))
Phil Crissman
· 2 years ago
Heh... I should have known better than to think my little blog post would stay invisible.
I did notice, after the fact, that I could have just looked at "with_friends" ... I was (am?) still pretty new to Twitter.
Though I decided it was a bit silly to keep following people more or less indiscriminately, a side effect of my experiment was that I more or less immersed myself in a large community of twitterers in a very short amount of time, and "met" a lot of interesting folks. While I'm not still trying to add anyone's whole list (chose yours simply because it was so huge), I've found no one I would want to un-follow. If anything, I'd like to follow more people, and the process has been a great way to see the real value in apps like Twitter.
Thanks for answering the question. ;-)
thedigitalmuse
· 1 year ago
Definitely agree with Scott Monty up there - every time I'm away from my computer, I feel like I'm missing stuff on Twitter and one of the first things I do when I get back is go through the archive.
I'm not sure the "with_friends" feature is working properly for me... I just see the normal list of followers - am I supposed to see something different?
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At a certain point, I have to stop myself. I realize that I can't be everywhere, I can't take in everything. That's part of what having a strong network of friends and colleagues is for. It's akin to an executive who is confident enough to hire staff that are smarter than him/her.
So, if I miss any breaking news or amazing developments, I'm sure my peeps will uncover it so I can learn about it from them. I don't need to be the first one reporting on stuff - after all, I'm not the Associated Press...
(howto here: www.rizzn.com/2007/10/yahoo-pipes-twitter.asp)
that goes the other way round as well. I live in Germany and I follow you and some others from the US (like dave, marshall kirkpatrick and some more), usually around 3:00 to 4:00pm the US-people start to kick in. until then it's mostly us europeans for me. :)
the funny thing is: even more than with blogging, twitter brought to me this subconcsiousnesslike sense of one earth, of people being connected on the planet everythere. I mean a few years back I really didn't think about different timezones and all, why should I had to anyway. Now I get remembered of that every day, most of the time (when being online and yaddayadda).
that sounds stupidly pathetic and probably doesn't make any sense. :)
And, thank you Boris for TwitterMail! It and Tweetbar combined have been what's made it possible for me to become so engaged in Twitter.
When I was gone for a week for my honeymoon last month, I came back, pasted the whole mess into a more stable Notepad instance and slowly sludged through every...single...tweet. Sad but cool. Time consuming but worth it.
Of course, I only follow about 40-50 people (and have about the same number following me).
I showed you Twitter mail last week on Stanford Photo Walk.
You can get updates send o you by email for an aggregated overview of all responses made to you.
I use this all the time, as it will free up a lot of your time.
Next to that, the twitter mail functionality itself is a blast. Just sending an email with your update, that is neat.
Cheers
D&G
I did notice, after the fact, that I could have just looked at "with_friends" ... I was (am?) still pretty new to Twitter.
Though I decided it was a bit silly to keep following people more or less indiscriminately, a side effect of my experiment was that I more or less immersed myself in a large community of twitterers in a very short amount of time, and "met" a lot of interesting folks. While I'm not still trying to add anyone's whole list (chose yours simply because it was so huge), I've found no one I would want to un-follow. If anything, I'd like to follow more people, and the process has been a great way to see the real value in apps like Twitter.
Thanks for answering the question. ;-)
I'm not sure the "with_friends" feature is working properly for me... I just see the normal list of followers - am I supposed to see something different?