Kingsley 2.0

"Text is a UI"

Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

“Summary:
We made a timeline message more punchy, credible, and viral through 5 rounds of redesign.”

"When Pear Analytics started its short-term study, it assumed that most of the tweets would be either spam or self-promotion. This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
Instead, it found that 40.5% could be classified as pointless babble, 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively."

BBC NEWS: Twitter tweets are 40% ‘babble’

"btw vis a vis your immaturity argument, notice where this convo is taking place"

Steve Gillmor @Twitter