This may be one of the better overviews of Twitter I’ve read.
Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts – NYTimes.com.
Soon, machines could twitter as much as people. Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby kicked: “I kicked Mommy at 08:52 PM on Fri, Jan 2!” Mr. Menscher is now considering selling the product.
Pairing sensors with Twitter leads some to think Twitter could be used to send home security alerts or tell doctors when a patient’s blood sugar or heart rate climbs too high. In the aggregate, such real-time data streams could aid medical researchers.
This quote helps understand why Twitter is changing things:
“Twitter reverses the notion of the group,” said Paul Saffo, the Silicon Valley futurist. “Instead of creating the group you want, you send it and the group self-assembles.”
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It’s not rocket science, but I’ve been working with Twitter to see how or if it fits into my work flow as a tool, or is just a micro blog for the status update side of life. I have twitter access from twitter as well as my iPod Touch and I installed Twitter tools on my blog here. Twitter tools produced weekly summaries of my “tweets” as well as allowed me to post from the site.
That is, until this week when Twitter Tools started posting multiple digests
That is, until this week when Twitter Tools started posting multiple digests
That is, until this week when Twitter Tools started posting multiple digests
You get the idea. I’ve disabled it for now. And found this Twitter Tools support thread at WordPress. Updated: Twitter Tools at WordPress
it is interesting to watch how other users use their Twitter accounts. For some, it’s a personal “this is what I’m doing right now.” For others, it’s a cb radio call out to friends and followers. The third kind of user I’m folloing uses it to track ideas and urls — a text version of what you might do with JOTT
