Chris Baskind - Latest Comments in Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Chris Baskind — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:25:22 -0000

I should add as a postscript a couple of things:

First, while I -- like thousands of other users -- was deeply frustrated by Twitter's difficulties around the time this article was written, people took it far too seriously.

Second, I was deeply impressed by Twitter's utility this hurricane season. i live on the Gulf Coast, and it has been a busy year for storms. To me, Twitter proved its usefulness by allowing people both to communicate with the outside world on mobile devices once utilities began failing, and also receive a variety of well-managed, useful emergency information streams. Twitter was a lifeline for a lot of people. I'm glad it was there.

Twitter has made some real strides in recent months. They've listened to their users' concerns, beefed up their infrastructure, and seem to be committed to improvement. There no way I can take issue with this.

While I haven't yet resurrected my personal Twitter account, i've begun using the service again via Lighter Footstep:

http://twitter.com/LighterF...

Hats off to Twitter for listening, improving, and allowing me back.

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:47:22 -0000

If you didn't really care it wouldn't really matter to you ... and apparently it does ... so you really care.

Since you really care then it seems kinda cold the stay away.

--bentrem

p.s. see you tonight on TalkShoe

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Dan Kaplan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:16:37 -0000

"It's not you, it's me"

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Eric Rice — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:12:27 -0000

Money just *snap of the fingers* fixes stuff? I don't think that is an absolute.

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

queenofspain erin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:20:09 -0000

Stupid twitter. ...sob sob sob

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Illig — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:58:11 -0000

Cindy Klaus is really going to be ticked over this. :) Residual benefits: I'll likely read your blog(s) even more now. TweetJeebus we hope you return to the whale one day. Don't be a stranger.

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

trish — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:20:32 -0000

Is this like those melodramatic posts that bloggers write, claiming they're quitting blogging and announcing how they're done, waiting for everyone to beg them to stay, and then they write another post the next day like nothing ever happened? ;-)

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Lucretia M Pruitt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:12:52 -0000

You're not really leaving are you? That would be major suckage... just take time off and show back up whenever you feel like it!
(((hug)))

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

chrispalle — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:40:26 -0000

Stinkin' hilarious post. I agree that Twitter has been less-than-desirable lately in the sense of letting it occupy my productivity time, but I have to say that I still love jumping in and rolling through my friends' micro-posts. Maybe it's because I'm in a metro area, but it's great that when I do jump in, i see a lot of friends making plans, tweeting about where they are, etc. love that. Even when i can't make it out, i can keep a pulse and stay connected.

The stand-alone clients have been put to rest, though. They're just too distracting. Except for Hahlo when I'm on my commute.

Friendfeed is taking a place for more practical purposes. It's becoming more of a news source as more netizens plug in their feeds. Friendfeed itself is terribly unusable - or atleast too difficult - so it's going to require third-parties to develop the most useful tools. That concerns me because it's more links in the chain.

Nice design and content, btw. Subscribed! :-)

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Kimberly Bock — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:38:42 -0000

i've spent a lot less time in twitter lately..possibly because i havent been feeling well..but there's just a lack of lust there anymore..

besides you and jonathon have progressively sucked me into friendfeed! :-)

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

SarahKCS — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:21:00 -0000

Aw. I just started using Twitter, and you're one of the follows I like best. :( Happily, I'll see you on FriendFeed. :)

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Mihaela Lica — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:04:08 -0000

You say goodbye to Twitter when I just joined, isn't life funny? LOL. And you are using FriendFeed - where I will probably never meet you, because I prefer Secondbrain... and you use Disqus comments... which are still raising question marks in my book... (One day I'll see here a "goodbye disqus" - maybe the day I join disqus - he he!)

Yes, I loved, loved the article! Thumbs up!

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Chris Baskind — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:15:42 -0000

I'm leaving my Twitter account intact. But, especially for the next few months, I'm going to concentrate on content development. With the Lighter Footstep relaunch just a couple weeks off, there aren't enough hours in the day. After that, we'll see. ;-)

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Jeff Tunnell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:04:35 -0000

Too bad. You were one of the reasons I have been using Twitter. I thought it was crap a year ago. When I tried it again, I noticed there were a few people using the service as more than a way of telling us they had just farted or just ate a large pizza. You were one of those people. It lead me to your EcoTech blog, this blog, your FriendFeed, etc. Your post about getting on Alltop lead me to Alltop, which, in turn, got my blog onto Alltop. I think you are missing an opportunity here.

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

marshal sandler — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:31:45 -0000

Dear Chris, At my age 72 years old I know the pain of ending an affair ! Maybe Twitter will return your Love when they realize it takes two to tango ! Move onward and upward no tear's, just dance,eat ,drink and be merry with your new partner Friendfeed, in time you will find a true love who you can communicate with !

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

greenskeptic — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:47:30 -0000

Hilarious post, Chris. Will miss your tweets, but know that I can still find you via FF and RSS...

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

davidconnell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:45:53 -0000

Ah Chris Baskind, you will be missed. You were the first person I had a real back-and-forth Twit with. Remeber, the February 19 primary? Ah, so many memories. You'll be missed on Twitter, but we'll follow you wherever you go... Glad to see you got your blog rolling again.

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

Chris Baskind — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:37:55 -0000

Oh, I'm more optimistic than most about Twitter's future. As you point out, they have a broad and tremendously devoted user base -- plus a growing 3PD community. They also have exactly what they need to fix their scaling problems: great lumpy bags pf American cash. Far from hopeless.

But it's time for me to do other things. I'm as much a willing victim of social media fragmentation as anyone else, and there comes a point where you have to decide what to let go. For me, it's Twitter. Your mileage will vary, especially if you're using one of those fancy synthetic engine oils.

Thanks for the kind words on the spanking-new layout. I was hoping a fresh look would motivate me to post here on occasion. And now that I have a tiny portion of my day back ... ;-)

Re: Dear Twitter: It’s Over. And It’s for The Best

charlieanzman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:40:13 -0000

Chris - Almost wrote this 3 times in the last three weeks. Not sure it's over yet. Twitter still has a huge embedded and loyal following. The fact that Friendfeed imports it (and even lets you hide it and 'peek') helps give it time to re-build. By the way, really nice, clean blog lay-out!