the medium is the message - twitter is different. IM is one2one, synchronous. twitter is many2matter, asynchronous, with no comitment, you can jump in or out at will, IM requires you to actually be there/then. Email conversations are more formal, although asynchronous, but also not condusive to fleeting, check this out, kinds of things - and as those who have argued about the power of ambient intimacy - it let's me keep tabs on those I don't regularly communicate with so that when we hook up in meatspace, there is a shared context.
I don't know about this "killer app" thing of which you speak - its a medium/tool - it's not a distruptive technology - but then, there hasn't been one of those since hypertext - everything since then is just incremental fluff and marketing bs. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Tahsin Shamma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that Twitter has little real value besides replicating in web form > what people have already done over IM. > > I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this. What's the > killer app here that's new? > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
