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  antje wilsch

  3 months ago

  hmm you are all so obsessed maybe I should give it another try. Who do you follow Mathew and how do you keep up with the conversations? they seem like I entered the twilight zone .... or inside someone' s head (even scarier)
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  mathewi

  3 months ago

  Well, I follow a lot of my friends and colleagues, obviously -- like
  @rhh and @stuartma, as well as people I know like @pkedrosky, and then
  I also follow some interesting people like @fimoculous and
  @craignewmark and @QueenofSpain. And when I see someone I know and
  respect sending @ messages to other people, sometimes I go and follow
  them too.
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  antje wilsch

  3 months ago

  ok but more importantly, how do you follow the conversations? Do you go to twitter site and just read and try to figure out the list of threads? I mean the design hurts my eyes :) but it'[s more about trying to figure who's responding to @someone that I don't follow that makes me have any idea what's going on.
  
  Meaning, if you have no network, or don't follow the same people other people who are responding to other people are, how do you follow the conversations? Do you just keep adding people everyone else you follow is following?
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  mathewi

  3 months ago

  I must admit that what you're describing is the hard part, Antje --
  figuring out who is worth following and who isn't (or who someone is,
  or who they are talking to) isn't so much a science as a crapshoot. I
  more or less follow people at random based on whether they either know
  someone I know, or based on the content of their posts -- and then I
  let it sort of flow by like a river that I step in from time to time.
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  antje wilsch

  3 months ago

  seems more like a good way to avoid real work... lol
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  mathewi

  3 months ago

  You just described the Internet :-)
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  Ryan

  3 months ago

  The earthquake was centred in China. Not Japan.
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  elliottng

  3 months ago

  Typo: Earthquake in China, not Japan.
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  mathewi

  3 months ago

  Damn. I hate it when that happens. Thanks to everyone who wrote in
  to tell me that it was China and not Japan. That's what I get for
  writing posts so late in the evening.
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  MG Siegler

  3 months ago

  Obviously me called Scoble a "first responder" was a joke -- I called him the "Twitter first responder", can't you just imagine him showing up at the scene of something virtually, ready to help out?
  
  That said, he really did provide a service I feel, and I also feel that we're going to be seeing a lot more of these types of stories (Twitter helping spread info in disasters, when someone is in jail, etc) going forward.
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  mathewi

  3 months ago

  I agree, MG -- and I knew that "first responder" thing was a joke.
  But I think you're right that Scoble (and others) did provide a
  service, although it may not be on par with the search and rescue guy
  who frees you from the rubble or whatever.
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