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By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:07:37 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:10:35 +0000

That’s really interesting about the Tufte idea Ken. I hadn’t thought of more posts in the feed as being higher resolution – that’s a fascinating insight!

By: Ken Gillgren

Ken Gillgren — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:54:53 +0000

Great “witness” to the journey of experiencing Twitter. It was much the same for me–and your insight about sending useful signals is right on.
I was struggling for a while about how much to actively expand my network to a higher scale. I have been hovering around 500 for several months with no specific effort. Then I found myself recalling some of the thinking of Edward Tufte around patterns emerging with greater clarity at higher resolution–and some of my own concerns over the relative signal/noise balance calmed down a bit. Because it’s the emerging patterns that intrigue me, particularly when a “random” insight upsets the apple cart. So I’ve been learning to scan more efficiently (the new Twitter lists are incredibly useful here), sometimes based on the source (either original or RT), but other times just by what catches my fancy.
Honestly, of all the social media tools, Twitter, in all its mechanical simplicity and conciseness, really has come to represent a genuinely “fractal” media.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0000

Thanks Venessa. In some respects I think that the answer is just that we keep doing what we’re doing. The thing that concerns me most at this point is what to do as the connections start to scale, but then, that in part is what you’re talking about in your post…

By: Venessa Miemis

Venessa Miemis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:50:58 +0000

Tim,

I like the sentiment about not being able to find the signal until you send a useful signal yourself. I agree! It seems like we’re tuning ourselves to each other, and the better we tune our tweets to what really matters to us, the more we attract people who share our interests.

Here’s a link to my insights: http://emergentbydesign.com/2009/12/21/how-to-use-twitter-to-build-intelligence/

So now we know this…… what do we do with it?

- @venessamiemis

By: What I’ve discovered about Twitter | crm intelligence & strategy

What I’ve discovered about Twitter | crm intelligence & strategy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:40:36 +0000

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