Comments on: The Usefulness of Twitter, Part 2 http://dananourie.com/virtualliving/2009/07/the-usefulness-of-twitter-part-2/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: milt brewster http://dananourie.com/virtualliving/2009/07/the-usefulness-of-twitter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-180 milt brewster Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:39:30 +0000 http://dananourie.com/virtualliving/?p=347#comment-180 Thanks for the pointer, Dana. I hadn't seen these Twitter entries... I am finding the same things you are, even tho I am using Twitter to do other things. To borrow a phrase from today's business news; I think we are successful with our searches because the Twitter community is just too big to fail. However, I can't help thinking that Usenet did most of these things more efficiently, ten years ago. Usenet newsgroup concept is still very, very efficient for many purposes -- it's too bad the Usenet community has shrunk so much over the last eight years. milt Thanks for the pointer, Dana. I hadn’t seen these Twitter entries… I am finding the same things you are, even tho I am using Twitter to do other things. To borrow a phrase from today’s business news; I think we are successful with our searches because the Twitter community is just too big to fail.

However, I can’t help thinking that Usenet did most of these things more efficiently, ten years ago. Usenet newsgroup concept is still very, very efficient for many purposes — it’s too bad the Usenet community has shrunk so much over the last eight years.

milt

]]> By: Elohim http://dananourie.com/virtualliving/2009/07/the-usefulness-of-twitter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Elohim Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:46:25 +0000 http://dananourie.com/virtualliving/?p=347#comment-175 I think Twitter defeats the purpose of whistling I think Twitter defeats the purpose of whistling

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