EduGlu Sandbox

SArah Robbins points out Twistory - (note the correct URL - http://www.twistory.net ) It seems a rather useful tool.

Randy Thornton, proprietor of the Metamedia blog, rocks! He recently wrote and performed his own song about Twitter called “Still tweeting 4U”. I love this kinda stuff—this is who we are, damn it!

I deleted my twitter account. After posting almost 11,000 tweets over a year and a half. And I don’t miss it. I don’t regret it.

Twitter is a strange, unique beast. At first blush, it’s a tool to connect people and to share information.

But that’s not really what twitter is, at all.

I just deleted my twitter account. I’m not going anywhere. I’m not looking for reactions. I’m not dropping out. I’m still online, still available, and still easily contacted via better channels.

Now that I’ve started to get into Twitter, I wonder how many of these “Most Useful Twitter Services That Can Help Your Business Grow” will also be relevant to Educational uses of it.

It’s been just over a week since I decided to make Twitter a read-only medium. I haven’t posted a single tweet, and have only scanned Twitter a handful of times in that week.

And I haven’t missed it one bit.

I’m turning twitter into a read-only medium (for me). I’m not deleting anything. I’m not going anywhere. I just need to cut down on the noise and shallow superficial connections that just aren’t real. Twitter’s just a website. It’s not like it’s real, or important.

Twitter has been bugging me for some time now. No, not the single-digit uptime. No, not the constant “Down for Updates” notices. No, not the slow unresponsive website and throttled API.

I just realized that Twitter is actually dangerous. Harmful. Damaging.

Jennifer has made some very valid points following the TL^t Summit 2008

In particular:

Twitter’s been flakier than usual this week, and supposedly the twitgineers are busy fixing database borkage and scaling stuff up and twiddling bits and furiously adjusting the machine that goes PING!