I would like to highlight interesting twitter stories which seem to appear like whirlwinds, they start slowly with the right conditions and then accelerate incredibly fast and might leave traces: people being stunned and surprised, anger, some emotionally hurt. The first reactions are about blaming, calling for order, rules and technical solutions.
First there was the twitter mob, we are still learning, but we have acknowledged it. Now there is another twistter (?), the privacy discussion.
A twitter user signed up for a twitter group service. In order to keep things private, the service asks you to create a new twitter account with the aliasname of the group. Then you should sign up with that new alias twitter account. By accidentaly signing in with the personal normal account, all the private messages became public.
The premacy of Twitter is by default everything is public, privacy is an option. Therefore we have to be very careful when using twitter for very private messages.
Twitter is simple, therefore people love it and want to use it for all kinds of purposes. The beauty of the web20, combine things. By mashing up services we need to learn to deal with the increasing complexity of the privacy issues.
Let's not blame the very thing we love about twitter, the simplicity. The discussion about group features of twitter is ongoing and I like the way twitter has not rushed in to just add more features. And maybe they shouldn't because that could be done by 3rd party services like GroupTweet.com. Or hashtags.org. I like that growing ecosystem, because that allows us to have an incredible playground, try out new ideas, but also improve them or throw them away, try another approach. It allows us to develop a free and open culture.
How about "twindergarten"?
First there was the twitter mob, we are still learning, but we have acknowledged it. Now there is another twistter (?), the privacy discussion.
A twitter user signed up for a twitter group service. In order to keep things private, the service asks you to create a new twitter account with the aliasname of the group. Then you should sign up with that new alias twitter account. By accidentaly signing in with the personal normal account, all the private messages became public.
The premacy of Twitter is by default everything is public, privacy is an option. Therefore we have to be very careful when using twitter for very private messages.
Twitter is simple, therefore people love it and want to use it for all kinds of purposes. The beauty of the web20, combine things. By mashing up services we need to learn to deal with the increasing complexity of the privacy issues.
Let's not blame the very thing we love about twitter, the simplicity. The discussion about group features of twitter is ongoing and I like the way twitter has not rushed in to just add more features. And maybe they shouldn't because that could be done by 3rd party services like GroupTweet.com. Or hashtags.org. I like that growing ecosystem, because that allows us to have an incredible playground, try out new ideas, but also improve them or throw them away, try another approach. It allows us to develop a free and open culture.
How about "twindergarten"?
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