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I haven't used Instant Messaging for anything significant in months. Why?

我已经有几个月没有使用Instant Messaging了。 为什么？

Last May (!) I used the Twitter micro-blogging service and made a post every time I managed my Diabetes. It ended up being a pretty cool thing and even was on the evening News in San Francisco.

去年五月(！)，我使用Twitter微博服务并在每次管理糖尿病时发帖。 最终这是一件很酷的事情，甚至出现在旧金山的晚间新闻上。

The rise of blogs brought conversations on the 'net more out in the open. Blogging enabled conversation via essay, but as blogs have matured, posts have gotten longer and longer and threads more difficult to follow. Now, most posts are jumping off points for the more interesting conversations that inevitably move to the comments.

博客的兴起使网上的对话更加公开。 通过博客可以通过文章进行对话，但是随着博客的成熟，帖子变得越来越长，线索也越来越难追踪。 现在，大多数帖子都跳出了一些有趣的话题，这些话题不可避免地转移到了评论上。

Public debates and conversations still exist on Mailing Lists, IRC, and USENET. Private instant messaging is about connecting and conversing but is usually one to one, which certainly doesn't conserve my keystrokes. However, these conversations miss three useful things.

邮件列表，IRC和USENET上仍然存在公开辩论和对话。 私人即时消息传递是关于连接和对话的，但通常是一对一的传递，这肯定不会节省我的击键次数。 但是，这些对话错过了三个有用的东西。

• Constraints

  约束条件

  • Everyone uses a different mail client or USENET client and formatting and replies make things sloppy at best. 每个人都使用不同的邮件客户端或USENET客户端，格式化和回复最多会使事情变得草率。
  • Some folks comment inline, other quote, still others copy-paste, all of which makes it hard to follow. 有些人以内联方式发表评论，另一些人引用，还有其他人则复制粘贴，所有这些都使其难以理解。

  Constraints

  约束条件

• Permalinks

  固定链接

  • Yes, aggregators like Google Groups can make Permalinks (URLs) to conversations, but it's still clunky at best. 是的，像Google网上论坛这样的聚合器可以将永久链接(URL)链接到对话，但是充其量仍然很笨拙。
  • IRC conversations have no permalinks and virtually no searchable logs. IRC对话没有固定链接，几乎没有可搜索的日志。

  Permalinks

  固定链接

• API

  API

  • The APIs for posting and reading to and from IRC and USENET are not easy to implement (although, they are very well understood, you can't bang a client out in an hour). 用于在IRC和USENET上进行发布和读取的API并不容易实现(尽管众所周知，它们无法在一小时之内让客户满意)。

  API

  API

Twitter offers/imposes all three. You can "tweet" a max of 140 characters. Every tweet can be linked directly to and lives forever. There's a clear API. Any one or all of these things may seem lame or a deal-breaker to you, but these very things are what makes it useful for public conversation and sharing.

Twitter提供/强加这三个。 您最多可以“鸣叫” 140个字符。 每条推文都可以直接链接并永远存在。 有一个清晰的API。 这些事情中的任何一个或全部对您来说似乎都是la脚或破坏交易，但正是这些事情使它对于公共对话和共享很有用。

Twitter作为会话启动器 (Twitter as Conversation Starter)

Twitter is just one of the Microblogging services out there, but it's got a nice RESTesque API that has encouraged a number of a cool Twitter Clients like Witty, Twhirl, TinyTwitter (Windows Mobile) and others, as well as a nice mobile site at http://m.twitter.com. It also supports SMS so you can send and received Twitter messages with no UI or client at all.

Twitter只是其中的一种微博服务，但是它具有不错的RESTesque API ，它鼓励了许多很棒的Twitter客户端，例如Witty ， Twhirl ， TinyTwitter (Windows Mobile)等，以及一个不错的移动网站http ：//m.twitter.com 。 它还支持SMS，因此您可以在没有UI或客户端的情况下发送和接收Twitter消息。

Twitter's API also has spawned statistics sights like Twitterholic and Tweeterboard as well as fun things like Twaiku's (Twitter Haiku's) and Twoosh, when you use exactly the maximum of 140 characters in your "Tweets."

当您在“推文”中恰好使用最多140个字符时，Twitter的API还产生了诸如Twitterholic和Tweeterboard之类的统计信息，以及诸如Twaiku(Twitter Haiku's)和Twoosh之类的有趣事物。

I'm finding that I use Twitter more to chat with folks and interact with the community. There's aspects of presence, as sometimes folks will tweet "heading downtown" and I've used this to have surprise meet-ups and lunches when I just happen to cross paths with someone.

我发现我更多地使用Twitter与人们聊天并与社区互动。 存在感存在着某些方面，因为有时人们会鸣叫“前往市中心”，当我刚好与某人穿越道路时，我就用它来举行惊喜的聚会和午餐。

One of the misconceptions about Twitter is that I (a user) need to permissively "follow" you (another user) in order for us to talk. However, one setting change means I'll see any tweet that includes my username preceded by an @ sign. So, the way you respond in Twitter is like this: "@shanselman you rock" and I'll see it.

关于Twitter的误解之一是，我(一位用户)需要宽容地“关注”您(另一位用户)以便我们交谈。 但是，一项设置​​更改意味着我将看到任何包含我的用户名加@符号的推文。 因此，您在Twitter中的回复方式是这样的：“ @ shanselman，您感到震惊”，我会看到的。

One thing to point out (warn you) about Twitter is that tweets tend to be more sarcastic, silly, non-technical, whatever than on a blog. It's important to remember that what you say on Twitter is public, indexable, and arguably permanent, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, but be aware - The Internet Remembers.

要指出(警告您)有关Twitter的一件事是，与在博客上相比，tweet往往更讽刺，愚蠢，非技术性。 重要的是要记住，您在Twitter上所说的内容是公开的，可索引的并且可以说是永久性的，这既是件好事，也可以是一件坏事，但请注意-Internet记住。

Twitter作为消息总线 (Twitter as Message Bus)

There's a number of examples of Twitter being used as a message bus. For example, you can create a Twitter user as a "bot" to be used to send an receive information via an API. One such user is "commuter" that supports the http://commuterfeed.com/ website.

Twitter用作消息总线的例子有很多。 例如，您可以将Twitter用户创建为“机器人”，以用于通过API发送接收信息。 这样的用户之一就是支持http://commuterfeed.com/网站的“通勤者”。

If I "follow" @commuter I can send traffic updates to it like this "@commuter PDX Traffic on I5" and it'll show up on the Commuter Feed.

如果我“关注” @commuter ，则可以向其发送流量更新，例如“ I5上的@commuter PDX流量”，它将显示在Commuter Feed上。

Twitter新闻 (Twitter for News)

I've been getting the majority of my news lately by watching/following the major news outlets that have adopted Twitter, like NPR News, CNN and BBC Tech. Political activists like Dave Winer have been providing commentary via Twitter, and even candidates like Barack Obama have a Twitter presence. Obama has over 16,500 followers at growing on Twitter! Here's a list of the "Twitterati" from http://twitter.alltop.com/.

最近，我通过观看/关注已采用Twitter的主要新闻媒体(例如NPR News ， CNN和BBC Tech)来获取大部分新闻。 像戴夫·温纳(Dave Winer)这样的政治活动家一直通过Twitter提供评论，甚至像巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)这样的候选人也有Twitter的身影。 奥巴马在Twitter上有超过16,500的追随者！ 这是来自http://twitter.alltop.com/的“ Twitterati”列表。

Twitter作为会议/主题塔格 (Twitter as Conference/Subject Tagger)

If you're at a conference or in a particular special interest group, you can include a "hashtag" in your tweet like "#mix08." Many folks did this while at Mix08 in Vegas this year and via another service at Hashtags.org a feed was created that allowed not only the folks on the ground to stay in touch, but also for others not in Vegas to follow the conference.

如果您正在参加会议或特定的特殊兴趣小组，则可以在推文中包含“ ＃标签”，例如“ ＃mix08” 。 许多人在今年拉斯维加斯的Mix08上通过Hashtags.org的另一项服务做到了这一点，并且创建了一个供稿，不仅可以使当地人保持联系，而且也可以使不在拉斯维加斯的其他人跟随会议。

All of these things and more have made (so far) Twitter a really fun, dynamic, and ultimately enriching part of my day.

所有这些以及更多的事情(到目前为止)使Twitter变得非常有趣，充满活力，并最终丰富了我的一天。

Feel free to go sign up for Twitter yourself. I'm http://www.twitter.com/shanselman and once you've signed up you can "follow me" and I can follow you and we'll all join the conversation. I encourage you to find a Twitter Client that works for you and give it a try.

随时自行注册Twitter 。 我是http://www.twitter.com/shanselman ，一旦您注册，就可以“关注我”，我可以关注您，我们都将加入对话。 我鼓励您找到一个适合您的Twitter客户端并尝试一下。

How do you find folks you know on Twitter?

您如何在Twitter上找到认识的人？

You can find folks to follow by letting Twitter check your email contacts, but I have found that just by picking a few folks to follow, then watching who they talk to has been a great way to keep the signal to noise ratio high.

您可以通过让Twitter检查您的电子邮件联系人来找到要关注的人，但是我发现仅选择几个要关注的人，然后看着他们与谁交谈是保持信噪比高的一种好方法。

I don't know how long this will last, but I'm finding Twitter to be a nice, fresh way to keep up with friends and community in a 3rd place separate from USENET, Mailing Lists, IRC and IM.

我不知道这会持续多久，但我发现Twitter是与USENET，邮件列表，IRC和IM分开的第三位与朋友和社区保持联系的好方法。

Related Links

相关链接

• The Developer Theory of the Third Place

  第三名的开发商理论

• Twittering my Diabetes

  Twitter我的糖尿病

• Video: Twittering your Diabetes on NBC11 News in San Francisco

  视频：在旧金山的NBC11新闻上发布您的糖尿病

• Heading to Mix08 and Tweeting along the way

  前往Mix08和推文

• Twitter Social Graph (as seen in the image above) from Bruno found on Data Mining

  来自布鲁诺的Twitter社交图(如上图所示)在数据挖掘中找到

• http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ will take your Twitter Tweets and put them in your Facebook Profile Status.

  http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/会将您的Twitter Tweets放入您的Facebook个人资料状态。

翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/twitter-the-uselessfulness-of-microblogging

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