Comments on: No10 beats Obama http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/ Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Simon Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:02:20 +0000 http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/#comment-259 Good point, Mel. I guess it cuts both ways: for some, identifying themselves with a specific party or candidate would be a plus. But yeah, maybe Twitter needs a 'stealth' option for following. It's interesting how many people are coming up with feature requests for Twitter - a sign that it's hitting some kind of maturity? Or worse, at risk of scope creep? Good point, Mel. I guess it cuts both ways: for some, identifying themselves with a specific party or candidate would be a plus. But yeah, maybe Twitter needs a 'stealth' option for following.

It's interesting how many people are coming up with feature requests for Twitter - a sign that it's hitting some kind of maturity? Or worse, at risk of scope creep?

]]> By: mel starrs http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-258 mel starrs Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:20:43 +0000 http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/#comment-258 I think one of the reasons the other feeds are not showing up as having lots of followers is that you can follow by RSS and therefore not broadcast your political allegiance, especially if you know they are not going to follow you back. This essentially turns Twitter into a microblogging one way thing, rather than the two way thing users who know each other think of. Does that make sense... I think one of the reasons the other feeds are not showing up as having lots of followers is that you can follow by RSS and therefore not broadcast your political allegiance, especially if you know they are not going to follow you back. This essentially turns Twitter into a microblogging one way thing, rather than the two way thing users who know each other think of. Does that make sense...

]]> By: » Tweet tweet? http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-257 » Tweet tweet? Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:58:59 +0000 http://puffbox.com/2008/04/07/no10-beats-obama/#comment-257 [...] Simon observes that, from Number Ten to Barack Obama, they’re all at it. Perhaps it’s just my rather small social networking and blog reading circles, but it seems like the political world’s going mad for Twitter. [...] [...] Simon observes that, from Number Ten to Barack Obama, they’re all at it. Perhaps it’s just my rather small social networking and blog reading circles, but it seems like the political world’s going mad for Twitter. [...]

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