twitter as a cocktail party
June 10, 2009Over the weekend I was musing about how characteristics of my timeline could be modelled as using physical metaphors. I thought about using 3d space to model my timeline – but I could see it getting in the way of the experience.
Yesterday, night I started modelling my timeline as the twampoline cocktail lounge.
Ok – go to http://twampoline.com/lounge – I’ll wait.
Today, I get this tweet from @twittorsphere ~ http://www.twitip.com/twitter-is-a-cocktail-party/ ~ maybe they’re in the office over the road. HEY TWITTORSPHERE – CAN YOU SEE ME?
I quite like timelines – but they don’t feel like a cocktail party.
Principles
In a cocktail party:
- You overhear the last thing people say.
- You see people talking to each other in groups.
- People move to be close to the people they’re talking to.
- People don’t like to be too close to each other.
- Some people are wall flowers (in a nice way) – they aren’t interacting.
- Some people are loud, some aren’t.
- Some people are active – others are looking for their coats.
In pictures
credit to…
@mneme1 for listening to my initial twitter ramblings (although I rather grandly called them soliloquies).
