Twitter C/D

Because I have an opinion on twitter, just as you do on "arse". Thank yew and good night.

Communication is a great tool, but too much, too short, too sensationalist, too "there", all the time, every day, is just damaging and stressful.

I do know what you mean. In the future there will be class in primary school called "Filtering". It'll be like Home Ec for your information intake.

otoh. All my work life and half my social life is online. I just spend a lot of damn time in this space. I demand amusement! MORE!

http://twitter.com/nannerpuss

ok finally worthwhile (this + shaq of course)

"Filtering" - yeah. that leads to a (probably clumsy) anaology I was thinking of earlier: our brains take in *everything* we see and hear but we dont process most of it conciously. If we did, we'd be overloaded. Thats what the sub/unconcious is for.

In this way, I see the massive overload of media, of the always-on contact via text message, email, blogs, news websites, tv, phonecalls... people are hammered hammered hammered all day long. "I heard that HOURS ago you're slow" you get told when you pass on a bit of news. There's only so much the poor brain can take in and still process in a cohesive fashion before we all start to just not take in anything sensible whatsoever.

OK this obviously goes way beyond twitter so this probably isn't the thread for it, but it's something I find interesting.

Trayce:

1. 'Arse' is fact, not opinion
2. Twitter occupies a place that is not for well-thought-out dissertations, and its existence does not foreshadow the death of the attention span
3. We get to choose what we take in, it's not like internet goblins are ramming web 2.1.1 down our throats against our will

Have you tried using Twitter, Trayce? Not evangelising, just curious.

I've read peoples feeds, I havent "used" it and it just isnt something I'd find useful or interesting. I get no use out of FB or anything similar to this, I dont run RSS feeds - constant information networking just isnt my bag. I'm not yr usual interwebs-user I guess. I work at an ISP - this shit's in my face all day, its like being a chef and not wanting too cook at home.

oh god that's a good point, I hadn't thought of that

Having said that, I'm being a little disingenious - obviously I read and post crud on ILX and Livejournal, but I do like to try and slow down and think, I suppose. Not that I'm saying twit is thoughtless...

Yeah. I like the fast pelting of tweets but I'm also about to buy 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth so

See now ,I used to keep up with the pace of IRC (2 busy channels and at least 5 priv chats going all at once). There is no fucking way I could do that now, I just cant keep up.

so has anyone debunked the Eno twitter??

My actual proper human friends have started turning up on this thing. All that media attention is going to ruin it for those of us who aren't bogans or grandparents.

I think we should write our own Eno twitter.

BEWARE OF CARS

EAT A BISCUIT

Adam, many of your tweets deal with dieting and weight loss; moreover, it appears you are having some success. What methods are you using?

Long story short so I don't derail: Seeing a nutritionist who's given me a very specific diet comprising low GI fruit (strawberries, blueberries, cherries, apples, etc.), snacking throughout the day, low-carb dinners and piles of vegetables. If you DM me (ha Twitter) an email address I'll go into loads more detail.

Have you noticed that ILX posts are getting shorter and shorter, is this a side effect of Twitterisation, or is it simply the way of the internet, and soundbite culture?

Also, I am beginning to notice Twitter having a deleterious effect on me. It's nice in some ways, that I've reconnected with old friends of mine who moved to LA, and I haven't seen in years, suddenly it's like being dropped back into the minutia of their lives in the way that we used to be when we lived across the road from one another.

But I really really need to disconnect from my celebrity twitter because they're showing off (well, don't know if they are, it felt last night like they were) in a way that just made me feel shit and crap about mine own life. And I suddenly started to feel very, very empty, that here was me being a voyeur on a person that would never actually talk to me - and instead of feeling excited - like, why was this person posting this stuff? To make his fans feel like they were "there in his place"? But it didn't feel like that, it felt like he is a celebrity, having this exciting shiny life, and I'm lying in bed with inky fingers and feeling very flat.

But I just can't disconnect myself from the drip feed, because I'm *obsessed* - it's the one part of obsessive compulsion I can never seem to shake.

nannerpuss:I, for one, support IHOP's Free Pancake Day! Free the pancakes! Set them loose, grab forks and knives - LETS PLAY THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME!!!10:17 AM Feb 24th from web

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who the hell is nannerpuss???!

haha xp!

#Breakfasttip When asked how you want your eggs, say “mangled.” JUST WATCH THE LOOK ON THEIR FACE!

NANERPUSS!

Have you noticed that ILX posts are getting shorter and shorter, is this a side effect of Twitterisation, or is it simply the way of the internet, and soundbite culture?

The internet spreading to mobile devices has a lot to do with that, e.g. trying to convey a complex thought on a bloody iphone.

Recently there've been SO many occasions on which I've wanted to respond to something in detail and have just written 'wtf u mad' instead.

Which is why I wont use mobile devices for such things (and yes I have an ipod touch with wireless access). It is impossible to read or write anything of substance on them.

And I dont want to reduce myself and the things I take in to nothing but fluff and no substance. Some fluff is ok. Nothing but, is not.

Also, having and using one in such a manner encourages being glued to the internet all day long. We dont carry TV around and glue ourselves to it on the train, at work, at lunch, on the toilet. Why do we do it with the internet?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1383/1311433588_64825589f0.jpg

nothing new

We dont carry TV around and glue ourselves to it on the train, at work, at lunch, on the toilet. Why do we do it with the books, newspapers, and magazines?

Trayce you should write a letter to 50/50.

Why do people use Twitter? Expressing oneself in 140 characters is trite and insulting.
-- Trayce, Melbourne

Yeah way to completely and utterly misrepresent what the fuck I was saying.

PP, books newspapers and magazines dont consist of 32434 one-line empty ramblings, either.

Well, usually.

Anyway, point missed, I give up.

Trayce it was a JOKE, jeezus.

O how the tables have turned!

so has anyone debunked the Eno twitter??

I keep waiting for someone to, but so far, no. Certainly I'm not 100% that it's actually Brian Eno, but it's someone interesting enough that I'm not too worried about it. Only BAD fakers piss me off.

Surely many twitters, like facebooks and myspaces, are gonna end up being fakes (for slebs I mean).

Funny, if you google "twitter fake brian eno" the top result goes to the same feed, and google reports the page title as "Twitter / Fake Brian Eno". Which doesn't mean it's fake, necessarily. But it's interesting.

Where does Twitteronia etiquette stand on the following situation:

- You follow someone who also follows you
- That person stops following you
- You DON'T REALISE and continue to (a) follow that person and (b) reply to his/her tweets

Probably a bit spod-like for ilx but I must avoid embarrassing social situations. thx

I find people who reflexively follow everyone who follows them to be the equivalent of the MySpace whore who just wants to have a lot of "Friends".

If someone who I know (or someone who knows people I know) follows me I follow back, but if it's just some random I don't.

for those of us who can't get our fill of nannerpuss from twitter, here's 10 minutes of nothing but him:

it's like the metal machine music for our times

Seeing Rove last night confirmed for me that the Twitter explosion will only occur when bogans realise omgfamous people use Twitter.

Twitter and iPhone help find lost skiier, but companion found dead

I kinda like twitter now. I am only following people I sort of know.