Twitter?

TomC · 4 Mar 2009

stefan wrote: Just out of curiosity, anyone but me an avid twitter freak? I tweet about a variety of things, but I've lately started to twitter about SM stuff as well. It'd be nice to have a few others to conversate about VST dev stuff on twitter with (but be warned, I'm also into web stuff, gadgets and politics 🙂).

Anyhoo, if you're interested: http://twitter.com/stefanhallen

Nope, long ago I decided to NOT be too verbose about myself, and that includes social networks, blogs and stuff. I prefer to socialize in Real Life[tm], and enjoy the anonymity off the internet.

Tom

stefan · 4 Mar 2009

TomC wrote: stefan wrote: Just out of curiosity, anyone but me an avid twitter freak? I tweet about a variety of things, but I've lately started to twitter about SM stuff as well. It'd be nice to have a few others to conversate about VST dev stuff on twitter with (but be warned, I'm also into web stuff, gadgets and politics 🙂).

Anyhoo, if you're interested: http://twitter.com/stefanhallen

Nope, long ago I decided to NOT be too verbose about myself, and that includes social networks, blogs and stuff. I prefer to socialize in Real Life[tm], and enjoy the anonymity off the internet.

Tom

There's nothing unreal about the internet 🙂 It's part of IRL, for some (like me).

Anyone but Tom then maybe?

infuzion · 4 Mar 2009

IMHO S/N forums &/or email > twitter &/or chat

stefan · 4 Mar 2009

infuzion wrote: IMHO S/N forums &/or email > twitter &/or chat

It's totally different. I get that one perfers one over the other of course, but neither can be compared to the other. It's not just different means of communication, what one communicates differs as well.

I don't use twitter for connecting with my friends, for instance. I don't use it as a "status update" tool. I use it to, excuse the ugly choice of words, communicate with 'the world'. It's just different. I use forums to communicate with the people on that forum, and I use e-mail / IM to communicate with the recipients of my choice. With twitter, I don't choose whom to communicate with, anyone can hop in and participate in an ongoing conversation or news feed.

But, ok 🙂 I get it, I'm a twitter freak and most people aren't 🙂

Tom7777 · 5 Mar 2009

I don't get what this thing is really, i take it you just say what your doing at the time and then people comment?

someguy1) I woke up, brushed teeth, had breakfast

someguy2) Wow cool, what did you have for breakfast anything nice?

someguy1) Toast and jam, tommorow i might have something else

someguy3) Cool keep us posted, can't wait to find out

Just seems like loads of quick posts really but i guess thats the idea from reading what it says at the top, first time i have checked it out really, seems like it could be fun i guess though. 😀

stefan · 5 Mar 2009

Tom7777 wrote: I don't get what this thing is really, i take it you just say what your doing at the time and then people comment?

someguy1) I woke up, brushed teeth, had breakfast

someguy2) Wow cool, what did you have for breakfast anything nice?

someguy1) Toast and jam, tommorow i might have something else

someguy3) Cool keep us posted, can't wait to find out

Just seems like loads of quick posts really but i guess thats the idea from reading what it says at the top, first time i have checked it out really, seems like it could be fun i guess though. 😀

Like I said, I don't mainly use it as a "status updater", and I think most users don't. Because that's just not very interesting. Some people might use it as a commentary system for commenting news, others might use it to read and post news within a certain topic, and others might use it for getting and posting tips and tricks within for instance web development. Or sports. Or what have you.

For instance I have a few search columns set up in TweetDeck, one of them showing me all tweets containing "synthmaker" or the tag "#vst" (now, in that specific column, most posts are by me, but still 🙂), and in another I get all tweets on "Android". This way I get news, can post comments or news myself, or participate in an open discussion on a certain topic, within my "online interests".

I like it, and I get that others don't. I didn't get twitter at all when I first signed up, a few years back, but this autumn it totally started to grow on me and now I'm a fan 🙂

infuzion · 5 Mar 2009

To me, Twitter is more of a public permanent IM/IRC chat window. I already have a prejudice against all "chats" since they're mostly idle talk & very little real information.

stefan · 5 Mar 2009

infuzion wrote: To me, Twitter is more of a public permanent IM/IRC chat window. I already have a prejudice against all "chats" since they're mostly idle talk & very little real information.

I guess it differs depending on which topics and conversations you participate in.

infuzion · 6 Mar 2009

stefan wrote: infuzion wrote: To me, Twitter is more of a public permanent IM/IRC chat window. I already have a prejudice against all "chats" since they're mostly idle talk & very little real information.

I guess it differs depending on which topics and conversations you participate in.

That's very true; blogs can go both way also. They can go from "Well, today I ate at home, made my self soup, I miss my ex, blah blah blah." to vacation pics to chock full of good info.

I do find the twitter format harder to scan, with a date/user stamp every line rather than every paragraph or 2 like in a blog.

rl · 6 Mar 2009

@stefan twitter? whuts that? 11:23 AM Feb 30th from OuterSpace in reply to foozlbar231

That brings me to an idea: a device that creates sound based on twitter input. Might result in white noize, I assume.

stefan · 6 Mar 2009

rl wrote: @stefan twitter? whuts that? 11:23 AM Feb 30th from OuterSpace in reply to foozlbar231

That brings me to an idea: a device that creates sound based on twitter input. Might result in white noize, I assume.

haha 🙂

the result would of course depend on the process. it'd be possible to make a decent actual synth + patch maker + song maker that reacted to twitter input.