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Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by waytogo »

Shounak wrote: post #86
waytogo wrote: post #65

Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news. Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto. Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.

Can you recommend some good crypto influencers to follow?

A good while controversial start is Ian Balina @diaryofamademan (ICO heavy content) and then just follow founders from various cryptos (Vitalik from Ethereum, Jed from Stellar). Then just add all the people mentioned people retweet.

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by heartbreak »

Shounak wrote: post #86
waytogo wrote: post #65

Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news. Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto. Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.

Can you recommend some good crypto influencers to follow?

My must-follow for cryptocurrency insight is @tqbf.

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by jmfayard »

md224 wrote: post #84
Steeeve wrote: post #18

Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…

I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likely continue to occur until the extinction of our species. These clashes occur within discursive spaces, and Twitter is one such space. This is why I'm bullish on Twitter. It's a space for con…

The parent comment was not about Twitter Reddit Facebook coexisting or not peacefully, but about the logic of all of them competing against our public health.

IMHO we should regulate the hell out of them each time a significant harm on society can be proved, like we did for any other things that humans ever invented. But tech evangelists will say that time is different because 0 and 1 are being exchanged

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by indigochill »

ericmoritz wrote: post #72
Steeeve wrote: post #18

Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…

I've pretty much dumped Twitter for Mastodon. My mental health couldn't keep up with the air of constant outrage on Twitter.

I don't really get this point about Twitter, as often as it's said. On my account I don't follow anyone I personally know. I only follow some infosec/tech people who consistently have stuff to say about infosec/tech that I find at least a little interesting. Maybe occasionally they'll make a slight political tangent, but a great majority of what I see is on topic because I only follow people who stay on topic (John Carmack for instance usually geeks out on there about stuff related in some way to VR).

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by aaron-lebo »

md224 wrote: post #84
Steeeve wrote: post #18

Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…

I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likely continue to occur until the extinction of our species. These clashes occur within discursive spaces, and Twitter is one such space. This is why I'm bullish on Twitter. It's a space for con…

Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy.

When in human history have public spheres like Twitter existed? The public sphere up until about 50 years ago for most people was strictly local. You could not broadcast dumb narcissistic ignorance for free to millions of people. It wasn't possible.

Twitter is not good at what it does. It does not elevate public discourse. It's the equivalent of all the newsteams beating the hell out of each other at the end of Anchorman 2.

If you're bullish about Twitter, maybe we should be bearish about our chances as societies and as a species, because Twitter is full of examples of some or our worst behaviors. It's no surprise Trump loves it.

Just as an example, check out this tweet and its thread:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/96125316896862208...

It's 32,000 tweets of people shouting at each other.

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by loceng »

waytogo wrote: post #65

Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news. Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto. Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.

Anyone you follow who's prominently against cryptocurrencies structured like Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al - that aren't stable?

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by blowski »

zhte415 wrote: post #83
Steeeve wrote: post #18

Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…

Trump... Superbowl... Look seasonal, and more importantly seasonally adjusted. What do you see there? Anything underlying? [Not just seasonal events, like Easter, everything to adjust for, weather, etc...]

Celebrities

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by [deleted] »

jmfayard wrote: post #93
md224 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likely continue to occur until the extinction of our species. These clashes occur within discursive spaces, and Twitter is one such space. This is why I'm bullish on Twitter. It's a space for con…

The parent comment was not about Twitter Reddit Facebook coexisting or not peacefully, but about the logic of all of them competing against our public health. IMHO we should regulate the hell out of them each time a significant harm on society can be proved, like we did for any other things that humans ever invented. But tech evangelists will say that time is different because 0 and 1 are being exchanged

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Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

ericmoritz wrote: post #72
Steeeve wrote: post #18

Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…

I've pretty much dumped Twitter for Mastodon. My mental health couldn't keep up with the air of constant outrage on Twitter.

I only use Twitter for NWS and local news/government information. I don't see my local news/government on Mastodon, yet, unfortunately.

Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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Post by colordrops »

waytogo wrote: post #65

Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news. Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto. Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. I stopped using Reddit and started using Twitter. Perhaps this is a trend. Reddit in general has become too draconian and filtered by secretive dictatorial mods. And I've used Reddit for nearly a decade, so my disappointment with its decline is palpable. I'd prefer to get info directly from the horse's mouth.
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