Artificial ignorance

I joined Twitter back in early 2008 not realizing what I was getting myself in to. I was convinced by several friends that twitter was "a good thing" and that I had to "try it to really understand it". And they were right. I really didn’t get twitter, but I have to admit that Twitter has changed my life pretty dramatically (and I recently sanctioned this on Facebook by officially becoming a ‘twitter fan’).

When I joined Twitter, they were getting over all the major bashing they took right before and after SXSW. Thankfully right about the time that I got on twitter, they were on their way to rectifying a majority of their issues. Not too long ago, you saw posts from the big guns: "Twitter fails Macworld Keynote Test (1/15/2008)" and "Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong (5/20/2008)", "It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter (5/23/2008)" – you just don’t hear things like that being said about Twitter anymore (aside from the recent phishing scandals). No news is indeed good news, I suppose.

One of the biggest reasons I’ve started enjoying twitter is because how I’ve been able to catch up with current events. For example, in the past couple of months I’ve caught two breaking stories on Twitter – the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the Continental flight incident in Denver through the people I follow on Twitter: Continue reading

This ~110 character tweet by Veronica Belmont sums up why I too, have been blogging less.

I’ve been wanting to write a post about my 75 day experience Twittering (which may very well end up becoming my 90 day experience Twittering). Either way, for better or worse, I’m twittering a LOT more now.

Follow me.

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I’m proud to announce the beta launch of thatsWhatSheTwittered.com. The co-founders gave me an early preview of the site. This has to be one of the most brilliant ideas I’ve ever come across, and I’m proud to be a part of this new venture.

thatsWhatSheTwittered (starts with a small ‘t’) is an amazing concept. Here’s how it works :

1. You follow ‘_twst‘ on twitter.
2. For every tweet that you twitter, you will get an automatic reply from _twst that says "thats what she twittered". If you think about what that means contextually, you’ll understand that nothing has ever made more sense. Ever. For example, check out this thwead (thats a ‘twitter thread’, also a cute way to say ‘thread’) :
   
3. Every interaction with _twst will automatically make its way on to thatsWhatSheTwittered.com and will appear in a threaded fashion (that is much friendlier than what appears on quotably.com). The site is currently in private beta.

I hear the co-founders are currently to raise a round in the 50-100 mil range. If you want in on the beta, please send an email to ‘thatswhatshetwittered@gmail.com’.  Continue reading

I’ve started using FriendFeed. Not as a consumer of different people’s feeds (because there is just way too much information), but because I can now point people to one location (http://friendfeed.com/anandiyer) where most of my different social networking services’ activities are getting aggregated. I really like it for that purpose. However, shouldn’t Twitter be able to accomplish exactly the same thing? TwitterFeed, for example, can be configured to ping your blog and post tweets about your blog posts. Why can’t Twitter ask you which services you use, ping those services for your activities, and then auto-tweet them for you?

Besides, I can see how I’m probably inundating my friends on friendfeed (lets call them ‘friendfeeders’) : Continue reading

I cave : http://twitter.com/anandiyer

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