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Is Twitter Changing Real Life Social Interactions?

Started by Corvida · 1 year ago

Last week I had the pleasure of flying out to Portland for Ignite Portland 3. I had a fabulous time and met some really awesomesauce people including one of my biggest idols Marshall Kirkpatrick, fellow Grand Effect Network member and now team writer for ReadWriteWeb, Frederic of The Last Podcast, and a host of [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • SEO

    6 months ago

    It affected my iPhone battery life! Hehe... i am tweeting almost every 30 mins with my iPhone.
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  • Racing School

    7 months ago

    It's kind of addictive. People are now asking for Twitter IDs rather than phone numbers.
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  • Back Pain

    6 months ago

    I must agree with it but asking for Twitter IDs are a little far fetch. Good joke though. ;-)
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  • Singapore Hotel

    5 months ago

    It would be a matter of time when parents need to find their kids via Twitter.
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  • John

    1 year ago

    I think twitter truly does have an influence on real life interactions. Before I knew the ways of Twitter, I was lost... but now, I am found :) It's a great way to start a real life conversation at meet-ups like this, assuming that other people in the crowd are on twitter as well. Deciding to be geeky for the night, I even had a shirt made with my twitter picture on the front (http://snurl.com/2o8hs), trying to link my twitter profile with my life's profile :)
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  • elliottng

    1 year ago

    Corvida, I think what you are describing is typical tech cocktail party behavior...massive creation/reinforcement of many to many connections...weak ties that can become the basis of stronger ties later. I think Twitter reinforces that. Twitter is basically one massive ly connected and personalized cocktail party. But the deeper relationships are built in other places. Through blogging, *maybe* FriendFeed, and definitely via IRL interactions!
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  • Corvida

    1 year ago

    Great comment Elliott. This is why I need you to stop by more. I love hearing your thoughts!
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Glad to meet you IRL. This is for sure a PDX thing (not exclusively); the get-togethers here often have spaces for Twitter handle on them.
    Twitter brings us together and makes us a tight-knit community, one that's always looking to add new blood (cough).
    IMHO Twitter adds an icebreaker element to a cocktail party conversation. You get that "oh, it's you" moment where you go from strangers to pals in a second.
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  • Corvida

    1 year ago

    That's pretty funny how Twitter can do that. You look at someone and have no clue who they are and they shout out there Twitter handle and it's almost as if you've been bffs your entire life lol
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Heh, like meeting a blogger you read, except for everyone.
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  • Matik72

    1 year ago

    Yes, it most certainly does.
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  • Bram Pitoyo

    1 year ago

    I couldn’t agree more with you, and think that this is partly due to the relatively small size of Portland’s tech community.

    When you have a lot of the same people showing up to the same events—averaging about once every week or two—connections are reinforced and new ones are quickly made.
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  • Corvida

    1 year ago

    You definitely have a point there. Though, the rapid speed and which new connections are made far surpassed anything I've ever seen. The tech community in Portland has learned the art of making connections. Jedi masters!
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  • Gary Walter

    1 year ago

    Hey - it wasn't until after Marshall introduced me to you, in the lobby of the Bagdad, that it dawned on me that I'd read your tweets a couple of times. I got so involved in conversation with Marshall's partner, that I never got to talk to you.

    Though I've lived in PDX most of my life, this is the way I've always experienced "parties." In fact, the quote from my in The Oregonian mentions how Twitter is like walking through the convention hall at a large conference. But I like your term - "conversation hopping." That works.

    I'm glad you enjoyed your visit in Portland - we hope to see you here again sometime!

    PS: After reading this post (recommended by @turoczy), I kept reading more and more. You're a good writer!
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  • Corvida

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the compliment Gary.

    I've honestly never experienced this at "parties" or maybe I'm comparing things to clubs that I've been to. Even then we chit chat at clubs or parties at clubs, but I've never experienced things the way I did in Portland. It was pretty amazing though. :)
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  • Josh Bancroft

    1 year ago

    You asked if this happens all the time in Portland, and the answer is yes, yes it does. :-)
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  • Josh Bancroft

    1 year ago

    Oops. Duplicate comment. I'll use this one to say that I first heard of you through Twitter, when you said you were flying in for Ignite Portland 3. And now I "know" you. So there's your proof! :-)
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  • PDFoxy

    2 months ago

    I use twitter and it help me to communication with my friends
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