Comments on: Twitter: Fishing for thoughts in the collective consciousness

By: Inside Twitter: Building a platform for the planetary pulse

Inside Twitter: Building a platform for the planetary pulse — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:56:59 +0000

[...] Access to the insights that are available searching this collective consciousness [...]

By: Mike Gioia

Mike Gioia — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:12:07 +0000

I think you’re spot on with the untapped potential with Twitter. It really is like a collective conscious and I’m only now just starting to wrap my mind around it.

I see a similar use for this – a way to harness the millions upon millions of ever flowing thoughts into one unified system. Could you imagine connecting all of these random thoughts together into one ‘brain’.. thousands or millions of people communicating thoughts instantly. Its amazing.

By: Following the crowd on Twitter

Following the crowd on Twitter — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:26:15 +0000

[...] playing around with a variety of search methods to fish for thoughts on Twitter I decided to refollow some people based on Lea Woodward’s excellent lifestyle design [...]

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:32:08 +0000

You can see who he follows at http://twitter.com/thomashawk/friends, although there are over a thousand there! You can also go through his recent updates and see which people he @replies to most, and the bloggers he links to.

By: cat

cat — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:56:39 +0000

‘Who does @thomashawk follow?’

Good point…

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:42:31 +0000

I’m sure there would be directories somewhere but if you just use search to find some good people then you can see who they reply to and follow to find more. Who does @thomashawk follow?

By: cat

cat — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:28:37 +0000

Good idea, thanks. Since I’m going back to studies on photography, I thought listening to photographers twitter would help.

Is there any one place to find the top twitter people for any one profession? I know who the top communication designers are (some I follow, some not), just not the photographers.

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:56:53 +0000

I noticed people search was down too – no surprise really, half the site doesn’t work :)

If you want to find photographers try search.twitter.com but search not just for the topic itself but for things that photographers might talk about – that’s a great way to dig up the best.

By: cat

cat — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:05:14 +0000

Ross,

What a useful post. I was not even aware twitter had a subject search.

Recently I tried to do a people search for photographers and it didn’t work (broken, try another time).

Your suggestions work beautifully.