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The Asymptotic Twitter Curve

Seeded on Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:50 PM EST
Read ArticleArticle Source: Creating Passionate Users
technology, twitter, attention, twittr
Seeded by Mike D.
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We've all been at the brain bandwidth breaking point for the last five years. Email is out of control. IM'ing sucks up half the day. And how can we not read our RSS feeds, post to our blogs, and check our stats? If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about Twitter.

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Djehuty

Great article describing a whole lot of truth!!

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Reply#1 - Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:39 AM EST
Marilyn L

Too true, Mike. Says to herself: I will not look at Twitter, not look at Twitter, not look at Twitter. However, I can't stop looking at the Conversation Tracker, which runs a close second to Twitter in my book! ;)

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Reply#2 - Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:53 AM EST
Lee Stone

That's true. As soon as a new comment appears, I very quickly check the article. I also keep frequently re-loading the page to see if the tracker has updated.

Fortunately I've learnt to ignore most of the comments made from friends in articles I haven't commented in.

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#2.1 - Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:17 PM EST
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Aine MacDermot

I'm already twittering, thanks to Irma, who always drags me into these things... not that I mind. *grin*

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Reply#3 - Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:59 AM EST
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