A couple of weeks ago I was reading twitter and this guy post something about building this unreal java script library in a asynchronous don’t know what that sound more fancy that building the next iPod, immediately I thought “what a pipe dream” and “yeah, you and what army?”, but in twitter you can follow almost every one. It happened that I was reading a tweet from Jeff Lindsay that it the part creator of the Super Happy Dev House and part of Hacker Dojo, so it wasn’t a pipe dream at all and yeah he has an army. It was like bumping in a hallway of skull with some really geek rock star.
Today, David Weekly creator of PBWorks (by the way, I don’t like the new name) tweet about opening in the rainbow mansion and a link to Craiglist of the full offer.
Today I wake up faster than usual and connect to check twitter at something around 630am, I was reading about Lemon curd infuse flapjack and I ask for pictures and the recipe, but there were no normal flapjacks, there were true bunny-comics flapjacks made by the creator of one of my top 3 favorite web comics. He answer something like it might be today’s comic, at night, this was the comic posted. After that, I’m a fan forever, what else can I ask for (the recipe was also there).
So, for me, the part of the great value of Twitter is that we are able to interact with all the people that we read and follow only, maybe with them the noise that is created with Twitter was not important, but the costumer experience was great, especially in the bunny comics case, I hope that someday I can do the same.
But wait, I did something like that today, someone post something that seems like a tedious task, I thought how would I do it and I send a @reply, nothing fancy like splitting the atom, but I won follower after all. Eventually we have a Twitter full of people that is worth reading, that can help me make my work or my hobbies better, that will give cool links to read and that will make my day better, making people come together and that rock stars and mortal share the same platform, in the same way.
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Great post!!! I see the same value and i think that following crazy, kind, inteligent, important people is one of the best things to do in twitter. You learn more by knowing what they are doing and thinking than reading about them or wondering how cool is that hacker.