If you get the chance stick on Ray D’arcy on Today FM it looks like Twitter has made the main stream press with D’arcy slaggin off twitter and ‘not getting it’

Now I didn’t hear D’Arcy, nor do I hold his opinion in particularly high esteem but he and others are perfectly entitled to think it’s a bit rubbish.

Tom has said he’s not even sure why he likes it and where it fits in for him so since you ‘get it’ can you explain it to me. It just seems like a stupid idea to me. I can read Tom’s friend’s comments in the sidebar at te moment and for the most part they are incredibly borning. There’s even one ‘post’ there from a guy telling us he’s currently writing a blog post about x or y. Why the hell do I need a blow by blow account like that?

If you get the chance stick on Ray D’arcy on Today FM it looks like Twitter has made the main stream press with D’arcy slaggin off twitter and ‘not getting it’

Or at least fire him an email

Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:

Bryan is looking for web-based calendar suggestions.
Rick released the “Beach Ball of Death T-Shirt”.
Jim has a warning for young musicians in search of Hollywood club gigs.
Sarah d…

I think one must be wary of the “new toy” effect.

You mean the magpie effect Stephanie? - Ooooohhhh shiny!
You are probably absolutely correct in your intrpretation - and like yourself I’ll probably settle down a bit (after the ‘new car smell’ has worn off) in a couple of weeks!

I started using twitter early December, and I absolutely love it, and use it quite a lot, but I don’t see that it’s led to less blogging on CTTS for me.

Are you sure you’re not confusing “new toy addictiveness/attention-grabbing” with “twitter’s”?

Twitter is the latest thing in social networks and attention economy.

You can publish your status (what are you doing), share that with the world and follow “twitters” from you friends. Add to this “soup” RSS feeds and support for IM and mobile…

Scale this to independent living in a remote setting and it empowers those in an idyllic setting with a party line.

The cool thing is a fourth year software developer has already considered the code base required to twitterise a home. The rest is up to the audience to accept the technology’s interference with their lives.

Tom brings up an interesting point, I can see a way that Twitter itself can capitalise and make money on all of us addicted folks but can we make money with Twitter itself?

Let’s take for example a small company, just a few guys out there working ….

I can’t explain the appeal to me - part of it is the feeling of connection, I guess. And the ability to build powerful networks, very quickly.

Damien, excellent idea.

If I want to know what one of my mates is doing I text/call/email/msn them what does twitter do than isn’t done as effectively as one of those means already ?

… Tom, as a self professed addict already - what’s the appeal? Is it when friends come on and update themselves? Is it in charting your every move?

…in terms of business usage, I’m sure you could read in the feed, parse out the words and then have a pretty comprehensive set of statistics as to what’s hot right now.

Business case … http://30boxes.com/blog/ is a good example … they’ve a real time status update via twitter - it could be very useful for all these web apps where there’s a feature set and users feel as though they’re isolated from the developers…