Comments on: Managing the Chaos of Twitter: Real-time Search http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2009/06/23/managing-the-chaos-of-twitter-real-time-search/ Brian Fuller's blog on the state of media and communications Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:03:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Loring Wirbel http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2009/06/23/managing-the-chaos-of-twitter-real-time-search/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Loring Wirbel Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:41:36 +0000 http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/?p=638#comment-755 Of course, the argument against using a RT search engine is the same as the argument for continuing to read a general-interest daily paper - you don't know what you don't know, so a random survey of tweets may pick up something that a search engine might not catch. Metro train crash, sure. Insightful post on the rise of Fergana Valley insurgents in Kazakhstan, maybe not. Of course, the argument against using a RT search engine is the same as the argument for continuing to read a general-interest daily paper – you don’t know what you don’t know, so a random survey of tweets may pick up something that a search engine might not catch. Metro train crash, sure. Insightful post on the rise of Fergana Valley insurgents in Kazakhstan, maybe not.

]]> By: Brian http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2009/06/23/managing-the-chaos-of-twitter-real-time-search/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Brian Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:07:44 +0000 http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/?p=638#comment-754 I use Tweetdeck and like it very much, but i haven't grouped people together, which may be a way to manage the chaos by putting people into hierarchies of info needs... Still the problem becomes how do you effectively weed through the "mmmm, good burrito" Tweets of the people you're following? On the other hand, not everyone Tweets everyday; usually just the more involved folks. And to you last point, maybe I should winnow my followings down. I tend to follow people as part of my strategy to build audience, but i still have about a 2:1 follower/following ratio at the moment. Maybe we all need social media assistants... I use Tweetdeck and like it very much, but i haven’t grouped people together, which may be a way to manage the chaos by putting people into hierarchies of info needs…
Still the problem becomes how do you effectively weed through the “mmmm, good burrito” Tweets of the people you’re following? On the other hand, not everyone Tweets everyday; usually just the more involved folks.

And to you last point, maybe I should winnow my followings down. I tend to follow people as part of my strategy to build audience, but i still have about a 2:1 follower/following ratio at the moment.

Maybe we all need social media assistants…

]]> By: Kerri Hicks http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2009/06/23/managing-the-chaos-of-twitter-real-time-search/comment-page-1/#comment-753 Kerri Hicks Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:27:29 +0000 http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/?p=638#comment-753 What tool(s) do you use to manage your Twitter use? If you're just using the web site, I agree, it's unmanageable. There are some great clients on the Mac (Twitteriffic, Tweetie) and even cross-platform (TweetDeck) that have features built-in to help you manage your tweets, including grouping the folks you follow in (I think) TweetDeck. Here's something I don't understand, though. If you don't want to/can't read a person, why do you follow them? (Not you, Brian, but anyone?) I only follow those I can keep up with. If you can't keep up, either live with missing a bunch, or winnow your list, I guess. There are even ways to put certain people on snooze for a while. It's like signing up for email lists in the days of yore. So many I would like to participate in, but the volume on some lists makes it impossible. And I found out about the DC Metro crash on Twitter, too. :-) What tool(s) do you use to manage your Twitter use? If you’re just using the web site, I agree, it’s unmanageable. There are some great clients on the Mac (Twitteriffic, Tweetie) and even cross-platform (TweetDeck) that have features built-in to help you manage your tweets, including grouping the folks you follow in (I think) TweetDeck.

Here’s something I don’t understand, though. If you don’t want to/can’t read a person, why do you follow them? (Not you, Brian, but anyone?)

I only follow those I can keep up with. If you can’t keep up, either live with missing a bunch, or winnow your list, I guess. There are even ways to put certain people on snooze for a while. It’s like signing up for email lists in the days of yore. So many I would like to participate in, but the volume on some lists makes it impossible.

And I found out about the DC Metro crash on Twitter, too. :-)

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