Twitter goes Dossy
Was shown a new site earlier this week, Dossy, that’s developep a Twitter Karma application so you can see who you’re following and who’s following you–and then also who’s following your followers, etc, an on, ad infinitum.
A colleague (T) and I had a discussion: is this anything useful, or just a way for the media pack to massage egos? Probably a bit of both. Twitter’s a phenomenon and it’s going to be around in some guise for a while, not least because it’s a perfect fit with shortening requirements to communicate. I have a Karma score of 1, in that I have one follower (same colleague, in fact, T). I’m happy with that for the moment, until I gather some things to say in less than 256 characters (never been my strength).
It made T and I muse on the subject of speed (or I think this might have been from the Bagehot Lecture at Queen Mary, given by Andrew Marr, who talked about the change in media over the last 20 years, driven by ‘ever-decreasing attention spans’ according to Marr. Which came first…?). Media are becoming faster, both in terms of reaching the consumer, and in terms of production and bandwidth, spectrum; and with that speed, the message is shrinking in size.
MediaPost’s Mobile Insider summarized a key point last year when it read from new metrics that ‘the writing is already on the wallpaper: media sharing will be more important than media consumption‘. If that’s the case, which it looks like, with youtube.com et al, where does that leave the journalist?
