Thanks for the memory lane stroll, my brain is happy.

I agree with AC that email is too spammy. But Twitter feels like spam as well although the product being promoted is usually only the writer’s sense of self-importance or need for self-reflection.

I’ve been on Twitter for a little while but only sent my first one last night. That was triggered by a colleague being stabbed. Only then did I wish that I had previously published my twitter account – the immediacy suddenly did feel valuable but with only 4 people following why bother? Okay, it’s a nice way of also getting that comment onto my Facebook account, etc.

The horrible side is having people signing up and there being some sort of social duty to reversing the offer if you know them. I don’t want to be inside anyone else’s head and hear their brain dribble…

I would accept Twitters from a whole range of people *if* I knew I wanted to see their posts. Perhaps Twitterers can give my applications some metadata that will allow posts to be filtered by level of importance and relevance to me. Only show me the most relevant 5% as a report once every week (yep, I’m a dinosaur and like to get stuff done).

We’ve had a long running project called openSocial (yep, older than Google’s that’s why I own opensocial.com and .net) which is meant to improve on email and twitterish apps. I look forward to it seeing the light of day hopefully later this year.

Earlier in the week was at a thing called PubCamp where most people were non-recovering Twitter addicts. Last night I narrowly managed to avoid a Twitter party. *Snort!* Twitter parties!

Perhaps there’s a virtual world that will come along in which your virtual bot goes around emoting and living out your random Twitters? I guess it will then Twitter it’s collisions or social interactions? “Saying hello to Epredator’s bot again… Bump.”
There’s no saving us!

Email and public telephone numbers need to be intercepted and filtered by some form of offshore human agent.