Comments on: Twitter – A Possible Support Circle?

By: Sweton F Fleming

Sweton F Fleming — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:45:57 +0000

Yup buddy.online community forums are bringing a great off line change in the society.

By: Christine Davis

Christine Davis — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:21:01 +0000

I am locked out of twitter. it’s my second account, and i cannot go on as administrator, i have asked twitter for help and do not receive an answer. any suggestions?

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Let your Confluence Tweet! : every108minutes — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:14:53 +0000

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By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:48:02 +0000

@Bil

Good point, you do catch a lot of “one-sided” conversations with Twitter as a result of not following everyone on earth. That is a very frustrating part of Twitter and why it only suits one particular type of communication need.

By: Bil Simser

Bil Simser — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:57:24 +0000

What twitter lacks is context. True, you *can* follow the thread if you pay attention but the twitter lifespan of a conversation is about 15 minutes (about the same amount of time it takes Britney to screw up after going out in the public). If you have a lot of twitter activity (twitivity?) then the thread gets lost. I would like to maybe see a view in some twitter client that threaded the conversation (I think there’s a couple of sites out there that do this, but not very successfully probably because there’s not enough metadata about a thread).

By: Chad Myers

Chad Myers — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:19:42 +0000

Ack! My twitter addiction has been publicly revealed! ;)

By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:37:45 +0000

In case, anyone wants to know the sure fire way to be followed by others (including myself) is to get involved in the conversations using the @mpool (or @username) context.

I don’t usually blindly follow people because I don’t want conversation to get lost in a sea of tweets, but if people actually are conversing I will be interested…

LOL, Mike – no worries – I need to be knocked off my soap box now and again… ;)

By: Mike Breen

Mike Breen — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:24:47 +0000

@Max

100 is great! I have 2 and one of those is my mom ;)

Sorry MAX, I hope I didn’t come off as snide in my first comment.

I completely agree with you that twitter is a awesome tool but for most of us it’s just not an option yet. I still depend on the kindness of strangers by using forums. I very rarely use IM or email for the same commitment reason you stated above.

By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:23:06 +0000

@Ryan

The first step is engaging yourself in a community (whether Twitter, forums, email groups, etc.). You really don’t know what (or who) you have until you are ankle deep in these communities.

I participate in a few different communities, and I am finding that my Twitter community is by far the fastest responding.

So I would say, just surround yourself with people you want to surround yourself with, get involved in the communication, and in a few short weeks people will know you and will be willing to help out.