June 28, 2008
More Idle Thoughts About Nothing in Particular (i.e. Twitter)
Here's another thought along the lines of the CMC same/different time/place grid as applied to Twitter I mentioned in Twitter and "Desynchronous" Communication... Twitter seems to be all over the place if you plotted a scatter chart opf different interaction modes on these axes:
1 sender and 0 receivers (or maybe 0 readers) - late night tweet to no-one and it gets lost...
1 sender to 1 or 2 explicitly identified receivers - I just tweeted @one or @two people.
Lots of senders, not really thinking about who's receiving it - something's happening (an earthquake, maybe?)
Lots of senders, 1 recipient (maybe that someone asked a question to their followers (1 sender, lots of recipients) and lots of people are replying?)
It's also worth bearing in mind that mass action trends are identifiable on Twitter: Twitter on Trendspotting.
Tags: twitter, cmc, this is the sort of trivial unthought through observation that people write up and present in papers in dodgy conferences and journals isn't it?
Posted by ajh59 at June 28, 2008 07:20 PM