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Twitter’s Communication Classification (video)
July 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pmSource:Mashable!
Last Friday, our resident cranky fart Steven Hodson posited that Twitter wasn’t, in fact, a status micro-blogging utility but in fact a communictations tool most closely resembling instant messaging. Certainly when I’m attempting to explain Twitter to newbies, that is the easiest way to explain it, but quite a few of you Mashable readers took exception to the characterization. As of the time of this writing, the debate still rages on with the comment count in the triple digit range.
From Steven’s editorial:
It amazes me how anyone in all seriousness can even consider the inane twaddle that permeates the Internet from services like Twitter as even coming close to blogging or micro-blogging. Has anyone really paid attention to what is being said on Twitter these days – that is if you can make it through the growing amount of spam that is occurring. Sure micro-blogging is a valid term when used to describe things like tumblr or posterous but not when used to describe Twitter.
On Mashable Conversations today, Sean and I try to make sense of the debate and put together what our take is on it. Sean came into the discussion pretty squarely on Steven’s side, but I was a bit unconvinced.
I’m one of those guys that views the act of blogging, for almost all purposes, as a form of conversation (even if it is occasionally a conversation with yourself). Thus conversation being a form of communication, it isn’t a leap to classify Twitter in the realm of conversational tool (though I’ve always tended to view it more as a lifestreaming tool).
Also on today’s program is another exciting episode from the SummerMash tour, this from the San Francisco tour stop with a conversation with the FiltrBox folks (who we had on Mashable Conversations recently ourselves).
You can check it all out by downloading the MP4, subscribing to our feed, or watching the embed below.
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