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Twitter is a multifaceted crowd conducting variegated conversations.
By Detlef.
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This is like Twitter
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Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind
Detlef
Henie Reisinger asked: “What’s your Twitter for?” I just commented that for me Twitter has the function of a porch on main street in a small town, where everybody is meeting, introducing, making appointments. OK: my mind is still set on those wonderful Texas-porches.
But how about another metaphor: using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind.
By Detlef.Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy.
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Twitter Indexing Web-Pages For Search
Detlef
So if I understand this post in TechCrunch right, Twitter is planning to index the web-pages tweets link to. Using Twitter Search you’d be searching not only tweets, but web-pages that are part of the conversation, too.
Hmm: is that going to be a good thing? I tweet about each post I write, naturally with a link. So each of my posts is going to be in the Twitter search index – I like that.
But when I use Twitter Search I’m not going to get only Tweets in the result – but a lot of web-pages, too. Possibly more web-pages than Tweets. Is that what I want when I run a Twitter-Search?
Twitter’s strength is the “Right Now“, the real-time search. What do people say at this moment? Not so much “What do people say at this moment about something they posted a year ago?”.
If Twitter Search should be including web-pages that are part of the conversation, I’d like to have that as an option, not as the standard procedure.
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Fascinating Question
Detlef
The other day I had the pleasure to watch Ideal, the BBC TV series about Mozz, the dope dealer. I had my difficulties to follow the actor’ s dialogue with their distinct accents but enjoyed it anyway.
One of Mozz’s customers is deadly ill and he asks her something like:
“Being dead soon – do you keep track of the daily soaps?”
That question was an eye opener for me. How does it feel to watch a soap knowing you won’t be there to watch the final episode? Okay: In case of the Soprano’s you won’t have missed much, but anyway – as all of us have to die sooner or later: what do we do with our time?
That was the direction my thoughts were taking when I read this post by Jeb about about the overwhelming offerings of social media. Looking at the long, long time life went on without us and the long, long time life will go on without us it seems we are here but on a small vacation from being dead.
So tell me: what’s the point in twitter, blogging and RSS? If you don’t tell me I’ll tell you: It’s about meeting people, exchanging views, learning, smiling, laughing, sharing hope and fear. And for this vacation, that’s a lot.
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Stop the conversation strategy
Detlef
I don’t like this advice: to maintain your followers on Twitter you have to keep the conversation going, e.g. by asking your followers questions.
Is this about conversation – or rather about one-way messaging, “influencing”? I don’t want to communicate with people who have a strategy. I don’t like to be treated as a lab rat.
That reminds me of my days in dancing school. I took 3 dancing courses for beginners in a row, because that was the only way for me to get into contact with girls. The girls at school were either not available, or evidently not interested, or not interesting.
At the dancing classes I was so nervous that my sweaty hands were sticking to back of the the girls’ dresses after just one minute of dancing. I tried an antiperspirant on my hands, which smelled horribly but didn’t work. I tried foot spray on my hands, which smelled even worse and didn’t work either.
And I made elaborate plans to use the window of opportunity while dancing, waiting for the music to start or leading the girl back to her seat.
Of course I tried to walk them home. I had a strategy of communication for that, too. Which I needed only once, but I didn’t get the right answers back and my items of conversation were used up soon. So I walked her home in silence with my mind frantically searching for something, anything to say, the big panorama window of opportunity vanishing in waste.
Did I succeed in getting acquainted with one single girl during my three dancing courses? – No.
Did I get acquainted and become friends with a lot of boys with a similar plight? – Yes, and with some of them I am friends up to this day. But we never kept the conversation going. It just happened.And when I found my love and my love found me
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Buddha bei Twitter
Detlef
Von Tieren Kann man viel lernen. Ich bezweifle ja sowieso, dass wir Menschen die Krone der Schöpfung sind. Tiere können entspannen und sich auf das Wesentliche konzentrieren.
Würde diese Katze twittern, wenn sie es könnte?
Im Buddhismus gibt es die Meditationsübung “Den Affen anbinden“. Sich lösen von seinen Gedanken, Wünschen und Gefühlen. Nichts mehr denken, nur noch DA sein.
Bei Twitter kannst du den Affen losbinden. Plappern, bis es nicht mehr geht. Vielleicht auch eine Meditationsübung:
- Deine Gedanken fließen durch dich hindurch.
- Du bist nicht deine Gedanken.
- Du beobachtest, wie deine Gedanken in die Tastatur fließen.
- Du bist nicht der Tropfen.
- Du bist der Fluss.
- Du bist der Ozean.
Was machst du gerade? – Ich bin bei mir. Zu Besuch. Hoffentlich benehme ich mich anständig.