oh boy, here we go…. Twitter is not just about people broadcasting themselves, in fact, most are webby nerdy developers and marketers. But you can’t even talk about Twitter as a four walled space on the web. Facebook has a draw bridge, but I rarely see that data floating around thread data… Twitter however is everywhere and that’s because people are linking it to everything. Think of it like putting up phone lines. But just individual and networks (not organized, government construction). Is it ego to post on MySPace and Facebook? or I should say Blippr or Glue? since those are talking venues and they’re about as different as a Blog and Twitter. Microblogging doesn’t have a residence so it’s not like I go to see you on Twitter, ring the doorbell, leave a note. Nope. In fact it’s like 30% who ever go there and the data is totally bogus anyway. No one thinks of it as a Hello World! space, it’s just sending out data and connecting people based on the fact that they’re doing the same thing, talking nearby, etc… You can’t do that, but you can on a blog. Someone resides there. Unless, you connect it to Twiitter then it’s morphing into something else, just another feed and emphasis on big ego you sort of dissipates.
I just think the behavior is far from ego-centric, it’s total dispersal of self and acknowledges that you are less important, less territorial, and not imaging your holding court, since there’s no there, there. Twitter wires that into you. So they’re technically not even the same thing – Blogs and Twitter. But I made the other arguments anyway… This has been tangential, since I’m losing my energy for this argument. It does get exhausting to defend free/open, public, truly interactive, decentralized web spaces.