Comments on: Twitter stole my mojo

By: Which commenting channels yield the most productive conversations?

Which commenting channels yield the most productive conversations? — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:18:38 +0000

[...] comments for short responses and trackbacks for more substantive responses. Twitter has IMHO shoplifted people’s mojo and derailed this practice that used to be commonplace. I believe we’ll see Twitter fatigue [...]

By: Scrollin' On Dubs » Ten IT predictions for 2010

Scrollin' On Dubs » Ten IT predictions for 2010 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:01:05 +0000

[...] insane growth and conversations will still occur via those channels but people will feel their mojo zapped and rediscover the role of the [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:48:11 +0000

I didn’t understand Twitter when I first joined. I thought “this is so stupid! Texting is way easier!”
Two months later and I can’t look away from my Twitterific app on my iPhone. And just the other day it finally dawned on me to try out this TweetDeck thingie…uggh…I’ve been sucked in by Twitter!
I know what you mean about the blog posts and twitter. I tend to tweet alot of twitpics throughout the day and save “issues” or compelling subjects to blog posts.
I’m amazed at the power of Twitter as well for social networking. Back when I was a kid playing on my Atari, I never thought this is where our technology would take us.
Damn you, Twitter! I can’t quit you! :)

By: Om.Is.Me…The Twitter Side Effect «

Om.Is.Me…The Twitter Side Effect « — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:12:00 +0000

[...] To put all that twittering in context..Scrollin’ On Dubs writes it best “…the real constraint challenge now is focus and attention, not message length.” - 0 comments [...]

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:53:31 +0000

Sean, your analysis is all too accurate. I have seen it in my experience (although FriendFeed is more of the bandwidth-sucker than Twitter in my case), and you probably saw the incident in which Michael Arrington called out Robert Scoble for spending more time on FriendFeed than on his own blog.

And by the way, I wouldn’t give up on Twitter’s opportunity to fulfill number 6 so easily. If a persuasive message can be written in 140 characters, you can bet that it will be VERY persuasive because of its very simplicity.

By: ike

ike — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:12:12 +0000

In my case the fact that I’m autistic prevents this sort of thing from happening to me. If I weren’t autistic, I imagine I might have this same experience, but… because I’m autistic I tend to hyperfocus on the things I do and in a lot of cases even when I’ve intended to write a “short blog” it turns out much longer than I expected because I hyperfocused on the subject while I was writing it.

It’s like being “in the zone”, but being in it in such a way that it’s then difficult to get out of the zone.

Funny thing is I do twitter… it helps me to compensate for the fact that the autism has degraded my social skills and my ability to network with people. But I frequently find when I’ve been “in the zone” that I’ve not checked it for several hours at a time.

p.s. I like the Ausin Powers image. :)

By: Michael E. GRuen

Michael E. GRuen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:47:06 +0000

I’ve written before [http://bit.ly/155S9] about how I think writing is dangerous for free thinking. (Or really, translating anything into a written/spoken language.)

In that vein, Twitter’s just another limiter; though, it is supremely useful for training people to get to the point.

For me, I’ve severely cut the amount of tweeting I do.