Stefan highlighted my ‘text messages are so last century in this context’ quote — and then added his view below…
Link: Ring Nokia: I finally understand why I don’t like Twitter
Bingo! I don’t even like push email, I prefer opening the Gmail application when I have the time to actually go thru my messages.
I can’t imagine what it would be like getting text messages all day that are complete rubbish. I don’t care what my friends are doing this very second; I only care about what they’re doing when I have the free time to sit on my butt and ponder when our next evening of debauchery will take place.
I totally agree. The likes of Jaiku are good when you want to feel connected, when you have a bit of free time. It’s a total arse getting text messages all day long when you’re in the middle of some really important work — AND you think that each text message MIGHT be relevant to that piece of work – only to find out it’s totally irrelevant.
EVERY time you pick up the handset to see what the text says… no, that’s not what I want. Get all your friends (the ones with Symbian, anyway) on to Jaiku, Stefan, and you can avoid the continual avalanche of irrelevance until you’re in the mood for it.
for me, a twitter service that would work and be meaningful (from my pov concerning moblogUK) would be a persistent presence sms service that updates you with comments left on your moblog, and updates you with comments recently left on friends moblogs. The ideal would be that it includes the post subject so you don’t necessarily need to see what the image/video is (particularly if it’s one of your own posts) when the comment comes in as an sms, and then you can reply, with your reply then being posted as a comment on that thread.
I think twitter is good, but for the reasons in your post and others I certainly wouldn’t allow sms enablement to my handset; people just talk crap all day long!!
They’ve almost got that with Jaiku, Alfie — almost. The next version apparently will do comments. If they then do inline images from flickr or the like, then that’d be exactly what you’ve just mentioned.