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04 October 2011

We find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter ---roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users

Personally, I tend to use Twitter as a read-only medium since I'm too shy to push thoughts under my own name out into the general internets.

post by: octothorpe at: 07:13 | 3 comments

Twitter finally makes sense to me now that I've figured out it's basically (asynchronous) IRC for people who either don't or can't IRC. Right down to the hashtags/channel names for conversations people want to follow (DMs are like PMs, etc.).

I still prefer IRC, but I kinda get it now.

posted by Eideteker 04 October | 07:28

I use it a lot for professional networking - sharing of blog entries and articles, asking questions, relaying conference tweets. It's pretty great for that.

I feel sorry for any civilian friends that follow me because all I tweet about is museum stuff.

posted by Miko 04 October | 08:05

Yeah, I conceptizled Twitter as being a public chat and thus it made a lot more sense.

Metafilter is like that too, something like 10% of the people generate 80% of the content.

posted by The Whelk 04 October | 10:57

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