Comments on: The media, social media and the Liberal thrills and spills

By: grace pettigrew

grace pettigrew — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:45:28 +0000

GregM@4: “So calm down Grace and put your feet up and enjoy the show as the Liberal Party gves us the pyrotechnics of its implosion. You may never see the like of it again.”

I was not referring to the Liberal Party ructions being of interest internationally, GregM (and thanks for detailing why we are just a pimple on the world’s bum), but it might be of interest internationally if we end up without an ETS prior to Copenhagen, and it looks like the denialists are in charge of our national debate.

Capiche?

By: David_h

David_h — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:20:52 +0000

boom boom Mecurius Anna, yes we need our inbuilt twitter filters

Some more random thoughts (not tweets) here.

By: Mercurius

Mercurius — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:41:45 +0000

Twit, Twitter, Twest,
We will never rest,
Until the twits have twittered,
And got it off their chest.

By: Gravitas liberabit vos

Gravitas liberabit vos — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:49:11 +0000

Heh Anna

By: Zorronsky

Zorronsky — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:17:37 +0000

Reminds me of the barber man from Banjo’s Ironbark. “Keen at repartee” and the dull flat-headed youths “that had no brains at all.” Speed of reply or wit varies but hardly equates with intelligence. At another thread Van Onselen is accused of missing the point on twitter but getting it right when he has time to think.
Do you operate from memory or the unconscious? Are you on dial-up or broadband. And is the answer any better?

By: Anna Winter

Anna Winter — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:11:22 +0000

Yes.

By: Gravitas liberabit vos

Gravitas liberabit vos — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:49:21 +0000

AW: “You just ignore the idiots, like you do anywhere where people gather en masse.”

Do you refer here to the Reps, or the Senate?

By: Anna Winter

Anna Winter — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:24:47 +0000

Anyone who wants people to be interested in what they’re tweeting would certainly not subscribe to a no need to think before you tweet approach.

I see it sort of like a really huge party, where some of it is good conversation with like-minded or interesting people, and some of it is being amused by someone who’s great with the one liner. You just ignore the idiots, like you do anywhere where people gather en masse.

By: Ken Lovell

Ken Lovell — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:23:42 +0000

Not too sure about you FX.

By: Nickws

Nickws — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:45:31 +0000

I’ve only looked at Twitter once or twice, and have no desire to become a ‘user’.

I wonder if part of the appeal of Twitter is that it gives the writer more control over the responses he/she is forced to endure, and it’s easier to censor the responses there than the responses on regular blog threads?

Perhaps the whole ‘no need to think before you tweet’ angle is overblown, and what’s really important is that Twitter allows people to import their personal gatekeeping strategies from non-political social media into a medium that some are already calling ‘micro-blogging’?