May be we should use the term Microcasting instead of micromessaging. It is like sms texting but we broadcast to groups of listeners.
stoweboyd
· 1 year ago
Has the problem of sounding like broadcasting, where someone is publishing to the masses.
ekivemark
· 1 year ago
I take your point on the casting connotation.
Since Twitter is like the world's virtual water cooler it reminds me of a term from the uk - having a "natter" - an informal conversation. May be we should coin the term "micronatting"
stoweboyd
· 1 year ago
Sounds like a sleep disorder.
KristianT
· 1 year ago
I cannot help but think that Twitter nailed it when naming the service. The name is accurate (I would not even call it a metaphor) and at the same time has a certain poetic appeal - a rare combination, that IMHO is one of its key success factors.
klecu
· 1 year ago
Microstreaming doesn't seem to capture the conversational portion of Twitter and other basically unthreaded services. Activities like lifestreaming imply one way sharing (usually with comments going "upstream"). Twitter especially has a lot of conversations in the stream. Compare to Rejaw, where public messages start conversation threads, and replies don't show up on the main "stream." That, I would say, is more of a "microstream" than Twitter is.
On a rather geeky side note, perhaps we are looking at the wrong analogy. Twitter is more like a large bus network, with each user being a node that both sends and receives data.
stoweboyd
· 1 year ago
Right, but too geeky.
Sarah Milstein
· 1 year ago
You're right, Stowe, that I hadn't seen "microstreaming" before we published the report. But it's an interesting entrant, and I'll be curious to see if people pick up on it. Other than "Twittering," we haven't hit consensus on the right term for this thing--a telling phenomenon in and of itself.
stoweboyd
· 1 year ago
The report will be interesting to read, I am sure, which I plan this weekend. Thanks, Sarah.
jansegers
· 1 year ago
Microblogs, microblogging and microbloggers are the coined hyponyms IMHO.
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Since Twitter is like the world's virtual water cooler it reminds me of a term from the uk - having a "natter" - an informal conversation. May be we should coin the term "micronatting"
On a rather geeky side note, perhaps we are looking at the wrong analogy. Twitter is more like a large bus network, with each user being a node that both sends and receives data.
Pieter Jansegers
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