Here’s my Saturday Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (thanks Jerome K. Jerome) #1. Kinda more loosey-goosey than the other stuff.

I think there’s something big about twitter flying below the radar. But probably someone has already thought about it and if you know about that, please let me know. I’m not one for much original thought. More a design-tweaker.

Anyway.

Having an account on twitter means that, as far as I can see, that in any web article the name of an individual can be linked to their unique twitter i.d.

Which means that twitter is now an instant personality test for every person described in web writing if the writer so chooses.

So if for example I say: “On his blog Paul Peacock defines what a Digital Inhabitant is.” (As I do, actually), then, instantly, the reader can go to my see my tweets and have access to my website and get an idea of who I am. Instantly. Never mind how I come across in the article.

If Snapshots – or mShots – are enabled the design of the twitter homepage also becomes important.

So there we are. So doesn’t that mean we should all work really hard on being good? See, the tweets reveal what we think is important to us, are an expression of us. Now we could lie, but how long could we lie for and how long before we were found out and driven from twitter?

And there is in fact a feedback loop to the Real World – see the post on psychology.

The only way out is not to have a twitter account because sure as eggs-are-eggs someone, somewhere is going to link to you.

And good luck with that if you want to be taken seriously as a Digital Inhabitant.

See, what I have been saying is that the digital world is all down to the individual level now. More later. C’mon it’s a Saturday.

NB: To all of my 5 subscribers who are not my wife and me. Sorry about the brief one-line post that flashed across the screen and then was deleted. It was intended for my fun, daily journal of my grappling with technology, not the Deep Thoughts of this one.

Plus I rewrote the intro and it is much more super than it was before so if haven’t actually visited the site recently you might want to. I refined the definition of digital world and think it is in pretty good shape now. Thanks.