Comments on: Somebody shot the president! Twitter: Nothing To See Here, Get Back To Work. http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: James Governor’s Monkchips » The new SAP: evidence in the Twitter cloud http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-276691 James Governor’s Monkchips » The new SAP: evidence in the Twitter cloud Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:00:24 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-276691 [...] I received notification someone called @yojibee is now following my updates on Twitter, the 140 character social networking service. As a general rule I go and check out anyone that is following me. That [...] [...] I received notification someone called @yojibee is now following my updates on Twitter, the 140 character social networking service. As a general rule I go and check out anyone that is following me. That [...]

]]> By: Lachlan Hardy http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-75299 Lachlan Hardy Tue, 08 May 2007 06:04:24 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-75299 Not exactly the WSJ, but Murdoch's <a href="http://news.com.au/" rel="nofollow">NEWS.com.au</a> rolled out <a href="http://twitter.com/OzFashionWeek/" rel="nofollow">Twitter coverage for Australian Fashion Week</a> last week. Including prominent display on the <a href="http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/feature/0,,5012703,00.html" rel="nofollow">fashion week feature page</a> Disclosure: I work there and I built this ;) And think that is very very exciting! Not exactly the WSJ, but Murdoch’s NEWS.com.au rolled out Twitter coverage for Australian Fashion Week last week. Including prominent display on the fashion week feature page

Disclosure: I work there and I built this ;)

And think that is very very exciting!

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » RedMonkOne: going better than I could have expected http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-75066 James Governor’s Monkchips » RedMonkOne: going better than I could have expected Mon, 07 May 2007 23:03:24 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-75066 [...] Who says tweets can’t be meaningful? [...] [...] Who says tweets can’t be meaningful? [...]

]]> By: Twitter it, and they will come http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-74922 Twitter it, and they will come Mon, 07 May 2007 18:30:50 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-74922 [...] several posts today extolling the virtues of twitter. “if you can’t say it in 140 characters its [...] [...] several posts today extolling the virtues of twitter. “if you can’t say it in 140 characters its [...]

]]> By: Open Parenthesis http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-74233 Open Parenthesis Sun, 06 May 2007 16:52:42 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-74233 <strong>Words, Words, Words...</strong> Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words. Words. Words. - Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii I’m not normally prone to quoting Shakespeare - more of a Modernist and Americanist by (academic) training and by inclination. But a few blog mems this w... Words, Words, Words…

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words. Words. Words.
- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii
I’m not normally prone to quoting Shakespeare - more of a Modernist and Americanist by (academic) training and by inclination. But a few blog mems this w…

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-73534 Jon Husband Sat, 05 May 2007 20:22:19 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-73534 From someone who writes much too much ... yes. From someone who writes much too much … yes.

]]> By: Rod McLaren http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-73466 Rod McLaren Sat, 05 May 2007 15:47:39 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-73466 Part of Twitter's growth surely comes from the fact that the barrier to writing/broadcasting is sufficiently reduced that Twitterers can easily fill time by trailing a stream of weather-, lunch- and commuting-related messages behind them. I love and hate it. However, http://twitter.com/twitterfiction is making a decent stab at fitting brief content to the form, and Ernest Hemingway might have found it the ideal pipe for his "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." story. Part of Twitter’s growth surely comes from the fact that the barrier to writing/broadcasting is sufficiently reduced that Twitterers can easily fill time by trailing a stream of weather-, lunch- and commuting-related messages behind them. I love and hate it.

However, http://twitter.com/twitterfiction is making a decent stab at fitting brief content to the form, and Ernest Hemingway might have found it the ideal pipe for his “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” story.

]]> By: Dan Farber http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-73058 Dan Farber Fri, 04 May 2007 23:43:17 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-73058 James...a good lesson...thx Nick...your comment is 179 characters (without spaces)...need more brevity James…a good lesson…thx
Nick…your comment is 179 characters (without spaces)…need more brevity

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-72888 Bill de hOra Fri, 04 May 2007 18:48:55 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-72888 Nick: "my sense is that the main effect of Twitter will not be to get people to speak more concisely but to speak when they really should just keep their mouth shut." Yep, it's one of those enabling technologies stakeholders keep claiming they want, Nick: “my sense is that the main effect of Twitter will not be to get people to speak more concisely but to speak when they really should just keep their mouth shut.”

Yep, it’s one of those enabling technologies stakeholders keep claiming they want,

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-72885 Bill de hOra Fri, 04 May 2007 18:46:39 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/04/somebody-shot-the-president-twitter-nothing-to-see-here-get-back-to-work/#comment-72885 I can rephrase pramit: "I do not use tools that are not obviously tied to revenue. I do not care what you are doing unless it happens to be on my critical path for the next quarter. I suspect you waste a lot your crunchtime on talking to other other people when you could be heads down getting us over the line. Therefore, I have had enough of these toys; let us get back to the crunchtime" Pramit has my total respect. I absolutely understand where he's at, Unfortunately he will always be there, That's the essential problem with 65 day vision. New Redmonk tagline: 66 days later. I can rephrase pramit:

“I do not use tools that are not obviously tied to revenue. I do not care what you are doing unless it happens to be on my critical path for the next quarter. I suspect you waste a lot your crunchtime on talking to other other people when you could be heads down getting us over the line. Therefore, I have had enough of these toys; let us get back to the crunchtime”

Pramit has my total respect. I absolutely understand where he’s at, Unfortunately he will always be there, That’s the essential problem with 65 day vision.

New Redmonk tagline: 66 days later.

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