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Twitter is one of those things that you can only do once
i dont understand twitter it would be nice if someone explained it to mo but you need an phone i think lol
You need a computer, internet, phone, and alot of time to waste. In increments.
twitter sucks
we could be making the world a better place for ourselves and for everyone
Very nice commentary - found that very useful and informative.
I didn’t realize twitter was that good, I thought it was a place for people to just whore themselves out socially… respect lol
we are suppose to watch videos on youtube, that’s our propose in our live.
+1 Good informative video
shes so cute =3
plurk it
“What are we supposed to be doing?” people need to think about this more
yeah true,twitter became very popular seriously.but i never took the time to make a twitter account.
Is Joanne on Twitter?
What are we supposed to be doing?
I disagree with the suggestion that open source is for failed projects.
amen to that..
That is a great question and one that for the moment, not even the most advanced consciousness could fathom, “what are we supposed to be doing”, if you ask yahoo or google maybe the answer is: “stop twittering and get a life” and the answer would probably be: “stop meddling and get a twitter”.
Although, combining real life events with constant updates might just be the answer.
0:13 ooooooh!
New camera-angle!
I love Joanne.
AAAAHHHH, texting random thoughts to friends and twittering to the world that you are going to play the drums or that you just finished your taxes….
Seriously, who gives a shit?
I’m not against texting, twittering, web surfing, or E-mailing but the large majority is crap, a waste of time, and demonstrates a need for attention.
What’s wrong with this document? Let me count the ways!
users.cis.net/coldfeet/ang22.gif
Do numbers go that high?
Yes, in fact some open source stuff are top notch. like firefox, and 3d software - blender
Yay Joanne fixed her fingers!
ANOTHER GREAT EPISODE!!!!
So, while we all search for what’s going on and where, is ANYONE actually doing ANYTHING ANYWHERE?
The heart of of Twitter is the Twit, you just can’t go wrong with a market base that big.
another shitty episode
very interesting.
‘contemporary thought stream?’ more like narcissistic vomit. Twitter does not provide USEFUL information, Google does.
Ha! Loved this ep. Such a nice, concise explanation of where the various intellect streams are coming from.
Does anyone else see a really cool convergence out there in a year or two?
Keyword search is nice. The real money will be in helping people sift through all that raw info for the nuggests they want, in an even more sophisticated way. But how, as our astute host nails here, do you monetize that? RB program geeks, meet at the usual place, 2 a.m. sharp, and we will discuss future plans for world domination.
i want to fuck you
ok not really no offense
I love TWITTER!
I loved this video.
Bravo! Whip-smart commentary.
I am picking my nose.
Someday someone will google something I wrote and it will cure cancer.
Yeah, a twitter search might be *faster*, but how much information can you uncover that way? I’d say little to none.
Great Episode.
When people refer to “men”, I’m pretty sure it means “men” in the way that we mean “human”. It’s just a word…
Valuable information, really! (sorry, couldn’t rack my brains to be any more sensible on the comment)
It always seems so irrelevant when I twitter what I am doing. *sigh*
Great episode!
I am glad there is twitter, and facebook, and I am glad many people like to use them. Glad, glad, glad. Now get off of my lawn.
great video, as always
thank you for keeping us up on things
think ill go twitter
WOW! very informational going to twitter this!!!
She types extravagantly fast on the keyboard! She doesn’t even need to look down what she’s writing!! And yet, another reason to give her 5 brilliant stars!! ~Thank you!! :)
Thank you for asking, last in the episode, following years of existence as Rocketboom, and millennia of existence as humans, the all to often unasked and always, as still, unanswered question that is maybe second only to “who am I.” Given the brief duration of our stay, it seems pertinent.
Rocketboom << subscriber++;
All your base are belong to us.
Oh man, good question…
JOANNA 4 EVER!!! ;-)
loved this
righteous :]
What’s up Joanne?
what ARE we supposed to be doing???!!!
Hmm… and why are we “supposed” to be doing it?
I love this wpmen. Funniest female online. Keep it up.
I meant women.
Don’t get too carried away.
Excellent episode, RB. Nice context and usage tips. Had no idea about using Twitter for human feedback like that. I’m all over it! Big twitter-er and Google user. Plus, an especially charming and adorable Joanne delivery.
RB follower #5698
You have a number? How did you get a number? I’ve been here forever and I never got a number! Who else has a number … anybody? How come I didn’t get a number?
On the other hand maybe not. Once we all have numbers we just become part of the collective and resistance becomes futile. Hey, that’s kind of like Twittering.
And HOW are we “supposed” to do it?
Twitter is stupid. Its just one of those teen things that will die in less than a year.
I’ve never been on Twitter. Perhaps I should go checkitout =)
eat, grow, reproduce, compete, control, conquer, colonize… cliques, families, nations - like the weeds & grasses, spiders & flies - & so it goes, all is flow - the eternal plasma of the void - fusing into orbs & bouncing off the bigger ones due 2 their own heat & compression as rays of light from countless suns, into the void again, infinite & eternal, ultimately perhaps nothing - as we slice smaller & smaller ’till we finally C perhaps that all is motion & nothing more - the ‘Ponsi-Verse’ =D
she’s amazing
!
What are we supposed to do….How about we just sit around doing whatever we want :D
That’s fine - relax… & others will come by & take what U have! =)) Aaah nature…
Check out this 1 - much better:
Social Networking Causes Brain Damage, Jealousy, and Cancer
watch?v=JN6oMF5uI5I
Or this (my personal fave =)
Evolution Explainer
watch?v=G1Ef3AUSVws
Gotta’ love the Monty Python animation bits =))
Haha this woman cracks me up all the time!
like I have to say it…….. “Big Brother is Watching You!!!”
Twitter is the first breath of the world mind…
Get absorbed… it’s painless AND refreshing!
USE THE INTERNET TO KILL TIME…
Or look for the meaning of life, depends on what floats your boat.
Read about this @ Amplify! :D
Twitter is beginning to look old, so check out Amplify (my profile there is http://online.amplify.com ;)
Nice report, JoAnne — especially like the eye movement! (you’re a STAR! a GODDESS!! a SUPER-ANCHOR-PERSON!!! ;D )
:) nmw
Ok, that is all too well about Twitter, but I have different priorities. Can anybody instruct me on how I can get safely rid of google’s cookies and all the shit google-bar put in it, before I reformat the whole thing?
Let’s say as it really stands, please.
awesome pieve joanne. i’d been wondering what twitter was about for a little while now. now i know
wow - Joanne is now so beautiful she actually distracts me from the content
yeah good commentary on that but we still love google right ?
Thank you for that good healthy question to balance the sickness that twitter is. Twitter - what a bunch of egocentric crap!
The only thing with this vid is that we sort of dance around the q of whether twitter is a *good* source of info, not just a convenient one. Given it now has a propensity to hit the MSM whenever there’s a crisis. But then, the same could be asked about WP & google.
i dont use Twitter
Twitter is awesome :3
What are we suppossed to be doing?
Living in the moment
Not twittering it.
after watching this video i think twitter might be evolving the internet, in a way it circumvents all traditional web pages, in an update and coding sense its so simple!
Twitter is odd. It’s like “why do all those celebs have stalkers” “why don’t I put my life out there so I can get some stalkers”.
I knew what Twitter was, and for a while I even considered signing up. But I didn’t. I think it’s an attack on our privacy without that people realise it, because everyone is doing it these days.
Then again, Facebook isn’t much better..
A: Nothing
Naaa.. nobody follows you unless you are interesting lol, and even then you can block them so it’s just friends.
coolest thing about twitter is getting updates from people like authors or nasa people, like the news but you choose the stories.
That’s how I use it anyway.
You decide how much information you want to disclose so you determine your own level of privacy.
It’s a bit of an America-centric thought stream, but I know what you mean. Great video.
What is the “Shake Shack”?
Actually, that would B ‘Meekakitty’ =)) Reminds me of ma’self when I was a teen (way she rants)…
VLOG
watch?v=I-HKFkPkcHI
Popcorn is my comfort food.
watch?v=zPaSe0rnkZY
I am an “Under Cover Penis Lover” Lover
watch?v=ntgVb80spHg
Cute when she shuts up - like me! =D
Work Shmork (day 2)
watch?v=XA4gad12mps
Twitter’s great for flogging newly updated videos to interested followers who may not sit on YouTube all day.
Works wonders for me, I can’t complain. In fact, I even encourage it.
I’m supposed to be cutting down on my sugar intake and not eatting this lolllipop so I just answered my question for your question, or…. not??? THIS IS CONFUSING!!!!
Yes Galaxy101stary, like a dog chasing its tail, these are the tweets of our lives
Facebook is alright, I don’t know though which one is worse facebook or myspace…
i want to twitter joann
standingw0lf - hopefully you don’t end up with fail whale results!
I really don’t think Twitter and Google compare well. Google is a search engine that brings you information on subjects, whereas Twitter is a social engine that can bring you information on people. As I really couldn’t care less about 99.9999985% of the people on the planet (I did the math), and of those people, most don’t use Twitter, it really is useless to me. Google, on the other hand, brings be relevant information I need, so is far superior.
ooo how fun.. i would want to try something like this at home.. but i know thats probably never going to happen haha but yeah good job. i really ejoyed the video
That was so very well done. I didn’t realize that twitter had gotten to the stage where it worth searching. I thought it was more status update or lj blogstyle.
The example shown using a movie search in google didn’t turn up the results I normally get. The first thing I get when searching a movie title is a list of shown times of local theatres and then further links to other movies showing and reviews.
2:04
well fb is looking more and more like twitter
the new design is definitely twitter-esque
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I like the fail whale :D He’s cool! xD
He’s cool - but it seems as though he’s been in hiding lately - the fail whale is becoming a bit like Moby Dick!
RocketBoom! I want to follow you on twitter! :D
Great piece on Twitter! I’m still never going to use that thing.
Just a quick comment on the user base numbers between Twitter and Jaiku.
When Google acquired Jaiku they closed for new sign ups. Instead one could leave an e-mail address in order to get notified when they reopened.
Well … they never reopened as planned and one and a half (or is it two?) years later Google open sourced it instead.
At least they have opened for sign ups again.
Bottom line is that because of no new sign ups the user base could not rise and then of cause the traffic levels became stagnant. People wanting to try Jaiku after all the rave reviews back in 2007 could not and instead stayed with or signed up for Twitter and later FriendFeed, Identi.ca and so on.
Anyhoo … just wanted to add some perspective on the traffic levels mentioned in the video.
still working it out
funny.
the essence of human species is not to blabber crap all day, hopefully, twitter comes from twits
Nice commercial. How much did you guys get from this?
Lady, I don’t know who you think you are, but google rocks. twitter is another word for constant myspacing. i like that you think twitter is cool, but google is agtilicly dominant.
Huh? Agtilic? Did you mean Octylic (in dictionary) or Artiluc?
myspace came first, then facebook, then twitter. go look it up everyone and prove me wrong… with proof of course!
To be completely honest, sometimes I make up words to throw people off track. It works often.
Rad video… :)
Throw people off or get turned off by your stupidity? Instead of inventing new words, why don’t you concentrate more in school (you are still 14; still plenty of time for you to learn real words).