Twitter II

I have been using twitter for few weeks already. I have read some people refer to it as a community, as utility, as a broadcasting tool. I am still intrigued by it: it is a tool, a medium, to create communities and foster conversations. In many cases, groups of friends and colleagues have created those communities and continue conversations that began in living-rooms, coffee shops, conferences, and offices. There are a number of people like me who began without particular friends or colleagues and navigate the Twitter landscape looking for communities and conversations (the way we do it when we first go to a conference in our discipline or to a party where we do not know most of the people): it is not easy to find those communities and conversations——one person I was following blocked her postings after I asked her about the Argentinian group Les Luthiers. Most people I have reply to have answered and added me to their list of followers but that is usually the extent of it, and that is just fine. So far I liked it but I am still at large.