Personae – a proposal for the recognition of our multiplicity in social media

October 12, 2009

We are all many. Whether you call them “masks” or “hats” we all have several we shuffle through each day. Not only are we interested in consuming different categories of content, but we are interested in creating content in different categories as well, thereby presenting specific facets of ourselves to the sundry social spaces we each occupy. To that end, Twitter should implement some notion of “personae”, in recognition of this idea that each of us are (perhaps subtly) different things within different social contexts, and might like to preserve the separation of those spheres in our social media.

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How Twitter could start making money NOW without f*cking up a very, very good thing.

February 19, 2009

A few days ago, it was rumored that Twitter would begin charging brands for commercial use. This was soon denied, and rightly so — it makes no sense, as it’s just impossible to adequately delineate. There’s been talk of charging for “brand verification” as well, to ensure, say, that the person who claims to be [...]

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Nearby Tweets – twitter gets location awareness

February 6, 2009

Well, sort of. Nearby Tweets just uses the location you stated at registration time, but it’s a very cool user-discovery feature nonetheless. I love an app like this — it does one thing, and does it well. It throws a simple user interface on something that was already available in the twitter API (thanks for [...]

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