Posted by Dinah on June 29, 2009, at 20:10:06
In reply to Re: from babble to twitter » Dr. Bob, posted by 10derHeart on June 29, 2009, at 17:58:23
I hope that Dr. Bob would respect those who request that their posts not be twittered. I think a list is starting below.
I still don't quite get it. I thought twitter was invented so that we could find out what a TV star had for lunch, or to keep up to date with the son or daughter who wouldn't dream of telling their parents what they're doing, but would happily share it with the cosmos.
I didn't think it was for twittering other people's thoughts?
That's the part I don't think I'd like, more than anything else. The excerpting. Even if Dr. Bob didn't excerpt to convey a completely different message than the sender intended (assuming he understood what the sender intended), words out of context just don't mean the same thing.
Scott's quote and Tabitha's quote are both great, but perhaps Scott and Tabitha don't feel that one line out of their posts really capture the essence? Maybe the next quoted person wouldn't.
Maybe it isn't just the excerpting that is a problem for me. It is the most obvious one to me. But things that have a context on this message board my not have the same context in another format, whether or not it is a single line excerpted.
I still am confused about twitter though. Is it used for this sort of promotional twittering often? Is twitter used to quote other people? Are we supposed to be getting that Dr. Bob is communicating to the world through his choice of quotes? My view of twitter is likely missing significant facts, so if anyone could explain these things, I'd really appreciate it.
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