Decklin Foster: Inside Out
March 12, 2009
An analysis of Twitter’s uses and popularity, plus a package announcement. Towards my degree in computer-science-slash-cultural-anthropology.
With the older media, you have a place — a newsgroup, or a channel, that people went to, with a distinct culture, and that (mostly) weren’t “owned” by anyone, but rather by the community. With the new ones, we are all sole proprietors of our own streams, and we “tune in” to the subset of people we find interesting, rather than topics we invest in…Because of all the above, I have always wished that I could use Twitter from something more like my IRC client. Like, say, my IRC client.