November 2009
1 post
Twitter is the nose of the dog
Twitter is a niche tool and you love it or are bemused by it. I think that it is best understood as a meme tool - its anthropological economics are geared towards the fast filtering and propagation of interesting ideas - as opposed to, say, analysis.
In this respect it is like the nose of a dog. Dogs are constantly sniffing their environment. The dog is trying to understand which of the...