I've been on Twitter now for the past two weeks and here are my initial, unvarnished, naive impressions:
* I did not "get" that Twitter Search is deliberately bad and the whole point is to slog through the profiles of virtual passer-bys
* The effect of the speech bubble ambience is directly from the film Wings of Desire
* I am still hopeful that IM communion can happen but refuse to tether a Blackberry
On point 3 I tried the following statement:
Boston MA "days ago"
The parenthetical was designed to filter out casual or dormant twits and attract the more Type A participants. It doesn't work. So I qualified the location with...
consulting
jobs
investigations
Verdict: stemming is turned on.
One of my BU students is looking for a local handwriting analyst. I'm too focused on the 50 Boston area strangers I'm now "following" to even attempt a Googling of her request.
Even if the bubbles don't expand to include an actual dialog I can see the value around the patterns:
* Over-representations of non-Geek networkers (especially PR)
* Ability to store strings-of-consciousness for reuse in some future recipe
* Shear gestalt of surveilling the mental maelstroms of the twittering mobs on a "want" to know basis
Need-to-know-basis need not apply.
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When you say that Twitter search is "deliberately" bad, is there some mission (or anti-mission) statement from the folks somewhere about that? I'm very frustrated by it, and it seems unacceptable that a web app in 2008 doesn't have a useful search over content.
My guess is that search invites too much visibility into the twittersphere. It's interesting how quickly earlier social nets taught us to expect at least a piece of database access to go with our individual contributions to it.
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