Comments on: More Twitter use cases http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/13/more-twitter-use-cases/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Alien Observer http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/13/more-twitter-use-cases/#comment-34377 Alien Observer Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:16:07 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/13/more-twitter-use-cases/#comment-34377 It too often seems like twits have diarrea of the mouth and constipation of the brain. It too often seems like twits have diarrea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.

]]> By: John Johansen http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/13/more-twitter-use-cases/#comment-33636 John Johansen Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:47:02 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/13/more-twitter-use-cases/#comment-33636 Curt, The interesting thing about the use case you mention me in is that I've never used A Small Orange. In fact, I've never been to their website. But, she had mentioned her issues on Twitter so I was able to recognize the name. Twitter is an good tool for Transactive Memory. "Each person doesn't need to remember everything the group needs to know, after all, if each person merely stores in memory information about who is likely to have a particular item in the future." http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/tm.htm I have, on multiple occasions now, read a link by someone on Twitter and gone back through their archive to find it again. I don't remember where it was but I remember who (most of the time). This is a powerful case for Enterprise Twitter acting as a way to aggregate Institutional Knowledge that often gets lost when people leave companies. I was introduced to this concept in 2 posts by Gord Hotchkiss relating transactive memory to search. http://blogs.mediapost.com/search_insider/?p=707 http://blogs.mediapost.com/search_insider/?p=712 Curt,
The interesting thing about the use case you mention me in is that I’ve never used A Small Orange. In fact, I’ve never been to their website. But, she had mentioned her issues on Twitter so I was able to recognize the name.

Twitter is an good tool for Transactive Memory. “Each person doesn’t need to remember everything the group needs to know, after all, if each person merely stores in memory information about who is likely to have a particular item in the future.”
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/tm.htm

I have, on multiple occasions now, read a link by someone on Twitter and gone back through their archive to find it again. I don’t remember where it was but I remember who (most of the time). This is a powerful case for Enterprise Twitter acting as a way to aggregate Institutional Knowledge that often gets lost when people leave companies.

I was introduced to this concept in 2 posts by Gord Hotchkiss relating transactive memory to search.
http://blogs.mediapost.com/search_insider/?p=707
http://blogs.mediapost.com/search_insider/?p=712

]]>