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17 Mar 2007
Twitter - persistent presence?
George Siemens talks about Twitter as persistent presence indicator. And that is indeed what people seem to use it for. But for that purpose it is a lousy service. And what should be persistent presence?
- My being online? - to indicate my being online is already done by several IM-services and Skype;
- My current location? - This is very well done by the Plazes service for me;
- My current meetings - that is doen by an online calendar service;
- My current actions - look in my public calendar as well;
- My attentiont - I used attention recorder for a while, but that records only my web-usage. I did use a local app to record anything, but that was not published
And you can subscribe to my pipes feed to see everything combined. So what does Twitter offer as an extra on my presence, not very much.