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How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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I think only Reddit has mastered the large-scale discussion involving thousands or ten of thousands of people at the same time.

Eh, maybe for people who've been using it for years. When celebrities do AMAs without guidance by experienced users, they constantly reply to the wrong threads or even the thread itself. Formatting being hard (e.g. you have to press enter two times to do a single line break) also doesn't help.

Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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I dunno about you, but most people don’t react to insults with physical injury, though in extreme cases that does happen. Not that baseless insults should be encouraged.

most people don’t react to insults with physical injury I'm not quite so sure about that. Most people don't hurl insults face-to-face. If people acted like their twitter personalities IRL, I would expect to see a massive uptick in fistfights.

It depends on what you consider “insult”.

From taking public transit, waiting in bus stops and walking through blue collar neighborhoods most insults are either ignored or get another insult in return.

Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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Especially when you can deliver insults without the threat of receiving a smack in the face back

I dunno about you, but most people don’t react to insults with physical injury, though in extreme cases that does happen. Not that baseless insults should be encouraged.

From what I've seen, at least in the sports arena, most of the physical fights start off with verbal insults. That could also be because sports already has an element of Us vs Them built into it. However, the speed with which things escalate from verbal insults is quite amazing.

Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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I feel like Kara Swisher just handled this in a bad way. You can easily have a conversation on Twitter: you make a tweet, someone else answers it. Rinse-repeat. Jack would've just needed to load Kara's twitter profile and reply to new tweets. What am I missing?

>I feel like Kara Swisher just handled this in a bad way.

Isn't it on Twitter, you know the ones running and presumably most familiar with the platform, to request how the interview be done rather than for the interviewer to know the nuances themselves?

Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno about you, but most people don’t react to insults with physical injury, though in extreme cases that does happen. Not that baseless insults should be encouraged.

From what I've seen, at least in the sports arena, most of the physical fights start off with verbal insults. That could also be because sports already has an element of Us vs Them built into it. However, the speed with which things escalate from verbal insults is quite amazing.

But even in those situations primed for antagonism fistfights and other are the exception. Ignorance and retorts are the most common reaction.

Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno about you, but most people don’t react to insults with physical injury, though in extreme cases that does happen. Not that baseless insults should be encouraged.

Yes, but in person insults are less likely to happen because of the _implication_ of violence.

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Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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I feel like Kara Swisher just handled this in a bad way. You can easily have a conversation on Twitter: you make a tweet, someone else answers it. Rinse-repeat. Jack would've just needed to load Kara's twitter profile and reply to new tweets. What am I missing?

>I feel like Kara Swisher just handled this in a bad way. Isn't it on Twitter, you know the ones running and presumably most familiar with the platform, to request how the interview be done rather than for the interviewer to know the nuances themselves?

Not sure about the back story of this. But it certainly seems like they didn't coordinate at all. @jack seemed very confused throughout.

Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

#39

Regardless of what Twitter is or isn't, how in the world is the CEO surprised by how his product works? And we're not talking some obscure corner case, but basic use case? Having a conversation was a learning experience for him and his team? Such a basic level of unfamiliarity with their own product gives me a lot of pause that he can do anything to guide the company on fixing rampant automated accounts or making it…

To be fair, this is a really atypical mode of using Twitter. Normally it's used for shouting at your audience/someone you disagree with. It's rarely used for true conversations, so I can somewhat see why the CEO is unfamiliar with its performance in that role.
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