Threading on Twitter

@CCSeed

I think the practice of threading, or weaving,.. the interaction that takes place when Twitter posts begin @_______, is on the rise.  I can’t really tell if it just seems so because I’m now following more and therefore seeing a larger piece of twitter pie, but as I view the stream of tweets during the day, its what I am noticing.  (It would be neat if Twitter published daily statistics about tweets by type.  Perhaps they do?  I’ve never seen them.  Only general remarks about the increases due to the debates on the Twitter Blog.  So much of the Twitter experience seems wrapped up in number of tweets and followers, that it strikes me as a bit false and proprietary on their part not to divulge the usage data.  But hey, I’m only one tweet voice in this vast sea…and they’ve got a ship to run.)

Anyways, the point of this post is to build on the practice of threading and to encourage others to pick up opportunities every time they log on to the stream.  As I see it, anytime someone makes a non-directed tweet, this creates an opening to further the notion they have presented through threading.

This is always interesting when it moves beyond the niceties of conversation and into the realm of exploratory collaborative thinking.  I’ll pick up on this idea in future posts, but want to stop here for now to see what your thoughts might be…