Comments on: A Week Without Twitter http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/archives/596 Warning: Geek Inside! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Aditya http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/archives/596#comment-823 Aditya Fri, 23 May 2008 05:06:37 +0000 http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/?p=596#comment-823 <p>@Mrinal: Now now ... I'm sure girls are listening too :) If you see the people I follow, they're all exceptional in their fields. I follow them because they tweet what they think too, and most of the time, their thoughts are interesting and something I want to look more into.</p> <p><span class="reply vcard tag">@<a class="url fn" href="http://blog.deepakiyer.com" rel="nofollow">Deepak</a></span>: I was a little disappointed #<a rel="tag" href="http://hashtags.org/tag/indiatwits" rel="nofollow">indiatwits</a> went down, but that's probably because of the "geek" nature of the turnout. Not that we didn't have some very interesting chatter in there, but we all have work and jobs and can't really give time to something like that. Twitter is more unobtrusive that way, as in it stays out of your way if you want it to, and you can return without feeling that you've lost out on all the conversation.</p> <p>Regarding Twitter Bots; It feels like scraping and archiving are ideas done to death. I still can't see an elite use of a bot in Twitter, something that make us sit back and say, "Woah, I <em>so</em> didn't think of that!"</p> @Mrinal: Now now … I’m sure girls are listening too :) If you see the people I follow, they’re all exceptional in their fields. I follow them because they tweet what they think too, and most of the time, their thoughts are interesting and something I want to look more into.

@Deepak: I was a little disappointed # went down, but that’s probably because of the “geek” nature of the turnout. Not that we didn’t have some very interesting chatter in there, but we all have work and jobs and can’t really give time to something like that. Twitter is more unobtrusive that way, as in it stays out of your way if you want it to, and you can return without feeling that you’ve lost out on all the conversation.

Regarding Twitter Bots; It feels like scraping and archiving are ideas done to death. I still can’t see an elite use of a bot in Twitter, something that make us sit back and say, “Woah, I so didn’t think of that!”

]]> By: Deepak http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/archives/596#comment-822 Deepak Fri, 23 May 2008 04:52:12 +0000 http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/?p=596#comment-822 <p>Twitter is new for many people, simply because they are not geeks. IRC is unknown; you yourself mention the reason. It is the geekfest of Web 1.0 (duh!). That means only geeks are present. I never used an IRC before #<a href="http://hashtags.org/tag/indiatwits" rel="nofollow">indiatwits</a>, because I honestly didn't like the idea of a public chatroom. (Obviously enough, I have never used public chatrooms of Y! Messenger either). I was curious about the protocol, because of my interest in computer networking in general. But recently I had the idea that something like IRC might be good, because there are only geeks there and we will see some good brainstorming/debates.</p> <p>Some bots are there in twitter, like the MyTwitter IM contact. They just need to open it up to us hackers.</p> Twitter is new for many people, simply because they are not geeks. IRC is unknown; you yourself mention the reason. It is the geekfest of Web 1.0 (duh!). That means only geeks are present. I never used an IRC before #indiatwits, because I honestly didn’t like the idea of a public chatroom. (Obviously enough, I have never used public chatrooms of Y! Messenger either). I was curious about the protocol, because of my interest in computer networking in general. But recently I had the idea that something like IRC might be good, because there are only geeks there and we will see some good brainstorming/debates.

Some bots are there in twitter, like the MyTwitter IM contact. They just need to open it up to us hackers.

]]> By: Mrinal Wadhwa http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/archives/596#comment-811 Mrinal Wadhwa Thu, 22 May 2008 16:28:13 +0000 http://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic/?p=596#comment-811 <p>I so totally agree .. i use twitter to think out loud too and get the views of all the guys who are always listening.</p> I so totally agree .. i use twitter to think out loud too and get the views of all the guys who are always listening.

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