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I pretty much just delete most twitter friends requests… I already track most of the folks I want to. But after about the 6th or 7th “Xxxxxx is following you” message from the same person, I got a creepy feeling like someone was breathing bad breath down my neck. If I have little patience for blog spam, twitter spam is down there as well: I visited this spam tweeter, but only to block them. What happens? Are you sure you want to block this person? Here’s what blocking means: * You will no longer show up in the blocked person’s list of friends. * Your updates won’t show up on the blocked person’s profile page. * The blocked person will not be able to add you as a friend. Perfect. Go away. And brush your teeth or buy a mint, damnit.

Okay, tonight’s blog parade is back to back twitter-a-thon. Among the tweets, Darren mentioned getting Twittercamp to run on his laptop. I chimed in a smart remark about stepping it up a notch and modifying the app with a custom skin. Oops, I may have jumped ahead. Twittercamp is a nifty desktop application created with Adobe’s new Apollo technology (allows web interaction in slick desktop apps) originally created by Daniel Dura as a way of having on ongoing dynamic display of twitter activity for use during a conference. If you happen to have a nice plasma screen laying around, it makes for a nifty backdrop for people to look at during breaks, etc. (Keep in mind you can only see it running on a computer, not in the browser, you have the real twitter for that??). I had downloaded it and ran it when it cam out, filing it away [...]

It’s just an un-scientific hunch, but twitter seems to “got game”. Jaiku flickered and faded. Pownce came out with a nice interface, threads, but I’m still tuned to twitter. It’s this dog’s rule that there is never a ‘best’ technology, just the one you happen to be using at the time. It’s going to all by transient for the next millennium or so. Recently I’ve been using on a twitter process I’ve not really heard described or even mentioned (that’s not to say it has not happened, as I am not the all seeing Orb). I’m thinking about the process when you’ve been away from twitter for a while (for some that means 3 hours, for others, it is days or more). You come back at the end of a raft of distended, semi-unraveled conversations. Of course we are used to reverse chronology in blog posts, but those are large [...]

This will prove I am not a statistician.. but I was mildly wondering today about patterns among people who twitter, as I glanced at my friends, as well as random people on the public timeline and the number of friends and followers on their pages. It seems there might be some behavior patterns there. Some generalizations: A lot of people in my circle have similar ratios of friends to followers, people perhaps shy? more selective, with ratios about 0.4-0.6. There are some more or less companies, entities using this solely to push content out; they have maybe one friend (so they are not really following others) and a few hundred followers, ratios < 0.2 Others have rather high ratios of friends to followers, > 1.0, even as high as 2.0 — these might be the uber socialites, the ones who seek to have as much as possible from other. Social [...]

As social services spread, mutate, spawn like they are, I am sure I’m in the same boat as at least a few others– what was once novel and every peek drew attention, at what point do you draw the line? Do you automatically reciprocate any offered friendship? I;m pretty much connected with a good circle via twitter (have not heard peep form jaiku in a while, is there a pulse?), but I get about 2-3 offers a day, mostly form folks I don’t know, and have to admit I ignore a lot I cannot recognize from their ID in the offered email. Sorry if I offended a real friend of colleague, but when I get once from “Jacques Ami” who has about 2000 friends, I am a bo doubtful he/she is seeking a meaningful relationship. Just for fun, actually an un intended consequence, I have a small twitter Petri dish [...]

At one time I bemoaned a future of having multiple blogs to spread my self around. That was so 1.0. I have two personal ones (one just for running or complaining about it), three ones at NMC for various projects, plus our main drupal site which has blog like writing duties, plus others I am losing track of… But its a problem of my own making. And now a new one. I am multiple twittering. Is the “great sucking sounds” any remnant of time? like that I ought to be eating lunch right now or trying to clean the green from my swimming pool or …? So I have my own twittering at http://twitter.com/cogdog. For the 2007 NMC Summer Conference, I got jazzed to create a NMC specific twitter space, to play with displays like TwitterCamp, to aggregate stuff in places like Tumblr and pageflakes. But I see some more [...]