Twitter – When everyone’s talking…
This morning I was browsing my twitter stream and came across one of the many “life coaches” that seem to have found twitter like stink on a skunk and saw this little jewel:
ConnectSocMediaRT @lifesuccesstv One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. Jim Rohn
I laughed out loud and thought “That has to be one of the most ironic, moronic, hypo-critic things I’ve ever seen on twitter.” What’s even more ironic was the fact it was a retweet (and what’s more ironic is that I’m effectively retweeting it now in this blog post.) How’s that for sick?
It reminded me of the Crosby Stills and Nash song Daylight Again and their lyrics “When everyone’s talking and no one is listening…how can we decide?”
I’m sure I’m like most grizzled veterans of the net who, when we first heard the hype of twitter, rolled our eyes and thought “Here we go again.” And like most grizzled veterans of the net, we’re doing what we all do best when given a huge network to play with, try to take advantage of it.
With that reluctant intro, take a look at Spaz, an open source twitter client. It’s an Adobe Air client that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux…some might argue it can’t be open source if the tool used to build it isn’t, but there you are.
The first client that lets me do a good job of filtering X,000 followers (like I have that many), down to about 10, will get my vote. I’m realizing that as twitter supplies RSS feeds for each account, what I really need is an uber newsfeed reader for twitter. Lots and lots of twitter “productivity” tools popping up in the cesspool of social networks. How gross is that? The ultimate oxymoron: productive social networking. Seems less like evidence of a fertile and useful environment than one that’s systemically broken.
The problem with twitter is that every so often, a little jewel floats down the River Ganges like flotsam and it’s that which keeps some of us coming back for more.
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The timing here is just too good. Landon blogs about twitter… and some random unidentified dude (who gets to become a character in the next Sims game) become Ashton Kutcher’s millionth follower.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,516930,00.html
Could this be a secret man-crush Landon has on Ashton Kutcher?
What’s hilarious about that (besides you seeing right through my well disguised motives), is Kutcher was locked in a dead-heat with a news-bot. You gotta love this “social” networking gig.
BTW – it’s important that you watch this in order to fully comprehend this amazing trend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s