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Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Last night Techcrunch and Loic Le Meur announced Seesmic’s acquisition of Twhirl, an application we previously reviewed on our site. I got the beta invite to Seesmic a few months back and tried it out once. I had some serious issues with Seesmic. The main issue was that it takes way ... Continue reading »

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  • Mike Keliher

    1 year ago

    Your criticism of Seesmic - that "it takes way too long to post a video and listen to a video playback then read a maximum 140 character message" - seems to assume Seesmic is supposed to replace Twitter or somehow be "like Twitter but in video!"

    Sure, some people explain it like that because it's an easy way to explain what Seesmic is - roughly. But it's actually quite off the mark. There's a massive difference between interacting with people in short bursts of video and doing so in minuscule bursts of text. Comparing the two so directly isn't even like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and cheeseburgers.
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  • Shane Vitarana

    1 year ago

    The difference between text micro-blogging and video micro-blogging is that text can be scanned easily and processed very fast. That is why Twitter works. Voice and video require playing each one individually. You can't scan ahead and process it quickly.
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  • Kosso

    1 year ago

    I can read a newspaper or a book faster than it takes to watch a video, but I still like them all.

    Especially when they reference and connect to eachother's medium.

    Kosso
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  • Jim

    1 year ago

    I was at the http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/ conference and I bumped into Tom Boilard and he has created a photo Twitter application with http://moborazzi.com.
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