Canzano tweets: "I'm certain the Blazers are up to something"

[Sinobas]

Haha.

That's like pointing to a terrible TV show and saying that television is worthless.

Ed O.

No, it would be like pointing at a terrible TV show and saying that is another reason not to watch TV. What you said would be like saying there is a there's a terrible twitterer on twitter, which is a reason to not own a computer.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Maybe, but Twitter sucks ass.

That's an interesting comment to read whil I'm staring at your avitar.

 

[Ed O]

No, it would be like pointing at a terrible TV show and saying that is another reason not to watch TV. What you said would be like saying there is a there's a terrible twitterer on twitter, which is a reason to not own a computer.

No. I'm making no statement about computers. I'm making a statement about Twitter, alone, as a medium.

Television shows, not the television set nor the broadcast technologies, define the value of television. Twitter posts, not the computer itself or the internet backbone it uses, define the value of Twitter.

Ed O.

 

[Shooter]

The sarcasm on this thread is hilarious. Reminds me of why I hang out with you guys so much.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I assume this was intended for the "casual" fan...not the obssesive/compulsive diehards like us.

 

[tlongII]

Well there are at least three components of Twitter that I think are potentially important:

• Content (personal): Some people love to talk about themselves and enjoy being minor celebrities. Some people love to see glimpses into the everyday lives of celebrities and friends and total strangers. Twitter allows people to do any of these things better than any medium ever.
• Content (professional): Old-school journalism has been rolling over in its grave with the advent of blogging, but with Twitter it goes to a whole new level. Reporting from the frontlines directly to people? Easier with Twitter. Spreading misinformation or stuff that could be fact-checked if an extra phone call was made? Easier with Twitter.
• Immediacy: People have their cell phones with them all the time now, and they're almost always on. Many phones have browsers, so the Web is accessible, but Twitter "pushes" information so much more effectively than the Web, and it's so targeted since a user decides which sources she wants to have stuff pushed from.
• Cross-platform: You can tweet to set your Facebook status. You can tweet a link to an image that you posted on a Web site. You can tweet about anything, and you can wrap your tweets into almost anything. It's integrated and it's different.

I don't know which of these is most important, or which is going to have influential staying power in future technologies and media, but I think that right now, with more and more people tapping in and providing content, and more and more people getting unlimited txting plans (and phones that can handle virtually limitless numbers of SMS messages), it's only going to get more popular... until something better comes along.

Ed O.

I ain't buyin it. Tweets and Facebook status updates are basically the same thing. The problem is that these "tweets" are so brief that they provide little to no useful information. People generating or reading constant facebook updates need to get a life imo.

 

[tlongII]

That's an interesting comment to read whil I'm staring at your avitar.

 

[Ed O]

I ain't buyin it. Tweets and Facebook status updates are basically the same thing. The problem is that these "tweets" are so brief that they provide little to no useful information. People generating or reading constant facebook updates need to get a life imo.

Tweets go right to your phone in the form of an SMS. Facebook tends to be browser-driven. Different technologies entirely.

And I understand that you might not like the medium, but any one of us not liking it has limited relevance to whether it's going to stick around or not.

Ed O.

 

[alex42083]

WTF was Canzano talking about on his one-hour show today... the biggest day of the summer, and he just talked about love letters and Michael Jackson the whole hour. BOOO

 

[OddEnormous]

and he just talked about love letters and Michael Jackson the whole hour. BOOO

The 2 go hand in hand to be honest.

 

[tlongII]

Tweets go right to your phone in the form of an SMS. Facebook tends to be browser-driven. Different technologies entirely.

And I understand that you might not like the medium, but any one of us not liking it has limited relevance to whether it's going to stick around or not.

Ed O.

Different technologies, but the same result. And you obviously have no idea of importance I as an individual have to the success/failure of these products. I'm big. BIG!