one thing that came out of a discussion with a friend of mine just now: a cool thing that old twitter (pre-2007) had going for it is that you didn't have notifications.
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one thing that came out of a discussion with a friend of mine just now: a cool thing that old twitter (pre-2007) had going for it is that you didn't have notifications. this sounds like a bad thing but it's actually good, because you didn't have spam either. you only saw what you explicitly followed.
mostly what i conclude from this is that it reinforces the value of having broadcast and notification being disjoint mechanisms. you should be able to broadcast without needing an inbox.
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one thing that came out of a discussion with a friend of mine just now: a cool thing that old twitter (pre-2007) had going for it is that you didn't have notifications. this sounds like a bad thing but it's actually good, because you didn't have spam either. you only saw what you explicitly followed.
mostly what i conclude from this is that it reinforces the value of having broadcast and notification being disjoint mechanisms. you should be able to broadcast without needing an inbox.
that is to say: notifying someone should be an explicit act and not something that happens automatically. (first, check for their inbox; second, send them a notification message.)
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that is to say: notifying someone should be an explicit act and not something that happens automatically. (first, check for their inbox; second, send them a notification message.)
i remember one time seeing on the public timeline some people having a full-blown conversation but with zero mentions or replies. that's a modality of communication that i think is worth exploring more.
