Not that I ever really got bored of Twitter, but I really love this:
It takes your Twitter feed and displays it so that the tweets of infrequent tweeters are larger than those of people who tweet all day long.
The user experience still needs a lot of work, but the basic idea is great. It reminds you that so much of the way we use Twitter is predicated on how we access the data.
The advice with Twitter is always to tweet frequently, and it’s easy to spot the organisations and people who’ve taken that advice to heart. Or who just never shut up. Some of those motormouths are my very favourites, no criticism of those with plenty to say is intended.
But I use Twitter to follow people – I follow some blogs and feeds, but mostly I like it for hearing what people are talking about. People I know, people I admire, and random people I have picked up along the way because they said something I found hilarious, or smart or weird. And some of those people are mostly invisible to me, because they don’t tweet that much and they don’t get copiously retweeted.
For me the really exciting thing about Twitter is short messages of interest from all over the place. I don’t really give a toss about trending topics. Shuu.sh makes that explicit again – what are the quiet people saying?
In a world where everyone was using Shuu.sh-like services, people would use Twitter entirely differently. If you knew that every post would make subsequent utterances less visible, maybe you’d think harder before pressing send.
Hat tip to @article_dan for introducing me to this service.
