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Social apps and the attention factor

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I was thinking about Twitter and the periodic outages of the past day or so, and came across MG Siegler’s post at ParisLemon (on FriendFeed, not Twitter) and started nodding my head as I was reading it. I couldn’t figure out yesterday whether Twitter was broken, or ... Continue reading »

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  • Justin Davey

    1 year ago

    I feel the same...and Twitter is still acting funny! I'm not so sure it's just the weather or Passover.
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  • engtech

    1 year ago

    It's hard to remember that you're alone in a room in your underwear, no matter how many people you're talking to on the interwebs.

    It's the diet pepsi of social contact. Strangely unfulfilling, but better than dying of thirst.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    That's a great way of putting it, Engtech :-)
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  • Mark Dykeman

    1 year ago

    Mathew, was it kind of like being in a noisy bar and then suddenly it seemed like a lot of people left, or at least stopped talking?
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    It was definitely like that, Mark. I had the feeling that
    conversations were going on around me about a whole pile of
    interesting things (which may not have been true, of course), but I
    couldn't hear them.
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  • Mark Evans

    1 year ago

    You need to get off the grid more often! It's good for you.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    I kind of like the grid :-)
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  • Sunspel

    1 year ago

    I also use Twitter a lot. I never thought I would get addicted to it but now, logging in everyday to communiate with people around the world is becoming or maybe an addiction. Maybe I need to re-think about twittering!
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