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Re: Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Jim — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:27:13 -0000

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.

Re: Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Kosso — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:30:45 -0000

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

Re: Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Shane Vitarana — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:51:53 -0000

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.

Re: Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Mike Keliher — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:15:26 -0000

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.