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Why twitter works.

Started by netik · 10 months ago

.. or, the de-evolution and re-evolution of communication.
Online communications has had a strange and varied history. I remember chatting to multiple users at the same time on diversi-dial services back in the 80’s. These were essentially apple II computers, filled with modem card ... Continue reading »

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Matt Miller
1 year ago

Couldn't agree more. I was lamenting the demise of IRC just last week, but didn't discover Twitter until this morning. So far my favorite feature is "Track." It's fascinating to see the community's varied responses to the same topic -- a twitter.com outage tonight.

mattmillr, if you care to follow.

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Joe Luser
1 year ago

Yup. That about covers it. Minor disagreement with the history of the use of @. That's been going on in blog comments for as long as there have been blog comments. I think the migration was in the other direction.

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Jon
1 year ago

Wow your comments are dark grey on black.

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Philip Newton
1 year ago

I've seen "@user: blabla" in blog comments way before I'd even heard of Twitter.

If one influenced the other at all, I'd say it's the other way around.

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John Adams
1 year ago

jon - I fixed my CSS. Thanks for the comment.

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que
9 months ago

You know, there still are DDials active via telnet...

Check out http://www.cultoftheoldschool.com for a list of currently active DDial, STS, GTalk, CS, and BBS systems. Register and become part of the cult! Were trying to bring back the old school ;)

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chess tactics
7 months ago

Twitter is becoming more and more popular with the time. As the explosion of several community sites are being taking place everywhere. Twitter is constantly getting a new space.

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