May 5, 2008
Just What Is Twitter, Anyway?
People always asks us this. Old people ask us this, we should say. And usually it comes off more like a statement than a question, so we rarely bite. But when we do, here is our sad explanation: "It's, like, short emails. Or Facebook's "is" blurbs without the annoying profile, or...people saying how they feel, we guess. Not sure, really."
Anyway, if you don't know what it is, check out Twistori. It simply aggregates all of Twitter's "i love," "i hate," "i think," and "i believe" statements onto one scrolling screen. According to the two tech savvy cats running the experiment, it is "the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs.
Basically, it's a momentarily amusing time waster. It's sure to give you 15 seconds of quality entertainment.
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It's totally mesmerizing.
Check out twittervision, and alternatively flickrvision....
they are mesmerizing... especially flickrvision.
And also, I am not old but I just learned what twitter is a few days ago. I'm still not sure how I feel about it so I'll leave off at that.
wefeelfine.org does something similar with blogs. I love that site. They only grab "I feel" statements, but the ways you can search and display the feelings are awesome. Like you can search for how women in there 30s in San Francisco felt on cloudy days in 2007, and then sort them by the most common feelings.
I have known what twitter is for a while, but still feel old.