I am happy to flick through some digressions. But there is a limit,
especially if you follow a lot of people.
I was thinking of keeping a record of the signal to noise ratio for various
Tweeters. The link that to their frequency and you can get an idea of the
frequency with which they say something useful.
When there is 90 per cent noise - I can think of one or two in that ballpark
- then the flicking has to stop. After all, who would pick up a magazine
that contained only one useful article every six months?
I suspect that Twitter will settle down to a more sensible pace, as people
begin to realise its value and what they have to do to be heard above the
noise.
After all, how many people who rushed to blog have stuck with it?
The best comments here that I have seen so far come from Ian Simmons, a
believer who also sees Twitter in context.
As he says "I am amazed at the level of attention Twitter gets, it is very
trivial, which is, I suppose, why it's called Twitter, and never struck me
as something that is meant to do anything profound."
You know that the fun phase is over when people hire PR companies to work
out strategies on how to use Twitter.
MK
-----Original Message-----
From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of alice bell
Sent: 10 March 2010 15:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] benefit of public engagement + social networks
Aha, just linked to via "@simon_frantz" on twitter, a blogpost by
"@brianclegg" on benefits of blogs/Twitter to physics
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/41808
As Simon says, it could do with some hypertext links, but thought it
might be useful to people following this thread.
As for MK's 'some people inhabit both worlds' point. I think you'll
find that most people inhabit many worlds, not just witter vs. useful
things to say, but worlds that relate to the diversity of interests
and connections they have. One person's witter is another person's
gold. If you want to reap the benefits of social networks, you just
have to deal with that (a bit like flicking through a newspaper - it's
not an especially new skill). Personally, I find twitter-ers (and
bloggers, and well, anyone) that simply stick to one branded element
of their identity are pretty boring. I'd much rather have to filter
out the odd stream of baseball/ glee/ BBC 6 Music rants every now and
again and listen to a real complicated human being than some sort of
refined auto-bot.
Alice
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Dr Alice Bell
Lecturer in Science Communication
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/alice.bell
On 10 March 2010 14:55, Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I agree that the best people to follow are those who use Twitter for a
> purpose, and not just to witter.
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> Unfortunately, some people inhabit both worlds. One in 10 of their
messages,
> sometimes one in 100, are useful. But we have to put up with the rubbish.
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> I find it useful to have an intermediary to sort things so that I can have
> lists of "News", "Entertainment" and so on, for example. I find Hootsuite
> helps here.
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> http://hootsuite.com
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> MK
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> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jenny Shipway
> Sent: 10 March 2010 13:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] benefit of public engagement + social networks
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