Do You Dream In 140 Characters?
Jeanne Meister,
New Learning Playbook,
Mar 18, 2009
I can't believe I'm being dragged into the world of Twitter. It's not on purpose - it began when I connected my Facebook status updates to my Twitter account (which I have actually had, but rarely used, since the first few days of Twitter) and people started following them, and replying, and expecting to be heard. Fair enough, and I've been working the system a bit to continue as a single unit the dual stream of Facebook updates and Twitter status reports, but with fewer annoying links. In case you're wondering, I have 897 Twitter followers and 780 Facebook friends (a reversal of sorts; SXSW, which was Twitter heaven, added dozens of Twitter followers). I still won't follow you - sorry, I just think it's really bad taste to post a list of my 'friends' - but I do have my ways of hearing you if you address your Twitter to '@downes' (my Twitter account and Facebook account names are the same: Downes). But note: my main output is still here; my Twitter and Facebook feed (one and the same) will not be deep and analytical. And I still want a distributed and non-proprietary system for doing all this, and am really disappointed the community can't get its act together on this.
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