NPR: Welcome to the BPP Diner. Need Coffee, Hon?

Welcome to the BPP Diner. Need Coffee, Hon?

NPR guy Andy Carvin, one of the humans most responsible for our great Twitterlution (aka the Twitternado, says Ian Chillag), has taken this great experiment to a new level. And all.

Andy created the BPPdiner, which pulls together all the BPP-related posts on Twitter.com. Sign up to follow it, and then you'll see all the BPP-related posts. Lost? Me, too. Here's Andy:

BPPdiner is an automatic aggregation of every post on Twitter that uses the word bpp. That way, it makes an easy way to create a group on Twitter. Just tell people to mention bpp (or @bpp) in their Tweets, and it'll be posted to BPPdiner. So it kinda is like a listserv for twitter.

The idea, I think, is to help us all keep talking. It should come in especially handy each morning, when the show is broadcasting live. Wander over to the diner. I've seen @robpatrob pouring fresh cups of coffee over there all day.

Laura Conaway

3:20 PM ET | 01-16-2008 | permalink

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Are you all sponsored by Twitter? If not it is nonsense that you are talking about it so freakin much!

Sent by matthew | 3:56 PM ET | 01-16-2008

I beg to differ. Shilling for a sponsor would be nonsense. Genuine excitement about a new way of generating a listener community is totally not nonsense.

Sent by Maura | 4:47 PM ET | 01-16-2008

Hi Matthew,

Nope no sponsorship whatsoever. It's just that part of our goal is to experiment with new forms of online communities, and at the moment, Twitter is being used by a lot of interesting people. In particular, I'm interested in how it can allow members of the BPP community to reach out to us via instant messaging and text messaging while the show is on air. Meanwhile, we hope to experiment with other social media tools as well.

Sent by andy carvin, npr | 5:16 PM ET | 01-16-2008

I was looking at people's twitter feeds and they read basically like this i just made up on the fly:

"Ate an orange. Yummo."
"Saw Terminator: Chronicles, it's decent."
"Went to bar, drank 8 Fat Tires."
"Thought I saw Tom Cruise, was just a seagull."
"Ate another orange."

I don't get it. From what I saw, Twitter is just the boring minutiae of people's lives. Obviously I'm not the intended audience for Twitter. What's it for? Or is that it?; for posting, just for kicks, the random junk people do. Maybe this could have some sort of business or research application, but do people really need to tell the world every single day what they eat, what song they heard at the Gap, etc etc? And with the character limit, the Twitter posts aren't even really conversations, but just short packets of words.

Oh well. I say meh to this thing for now. But more power to you if this is your bag.

Sent by Brian | 11:39 PM ET | 01-16-2008

There's some Twitter trouble at NBC.

Sent by Steve Petersen | 9:51 AM ET | 01-17-2008

For me Twitter is like noon soap operas... only few people watch, but those who do are loyal, and you might catch a bit of some interesting stories! Also, I believe it is a tool for people that tend to thinkalound/talktothemselves.

Sent by aerodi | 10:57 AM ET | 01-17-2008

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