Twitter is basically broadcasting. Why would expect bidirectional communication?
Works just fine for CB radio.
Imagine CB radio where everyone has a transceiver with global reach though...
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
#42Earlier 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.
Sports arenas -- at least in the U.S. and several other Western countries -- also serve alcohol, which aids in escalating such situations.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#43Regardless 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.
> It's rarely used for true conversations
Not a twitter user myself, but I've seen a lot of people use their twitter handles like they'd use an E-Mail address. They say "this is a twitter handle send me a DM if you want to talk with me" instead of "this is my E-Mail address please send me an E-Mail if you want to talk". So they do derive conversational value from twitter.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#44Regardless 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…
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Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#45I think only Reddit has mastered the large-scale discussion involving thousands or ten of thousands of people at the same time.
You're downvoted, but I tend to agree. Regardless of the community, reddit's full-width, compact layout is the easiest way I've found to follow a tree-based conversation.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#46Regardless 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.
But then why even try to have this conversation on Twitter? You'd think that after a decade he would have some idea of what Twitter is good and bad at. I can imagine having this kind of failed interview when the company was 3 years old, but after more than a decade, it's a bit bizarre.
Unless this was explicitly meant as a test, and not simply an online interview.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#47This is like acting surprised that a skateboard is not a suitable vehicle for going on a long vacation with.
More specifically: the skateboard manufacturer being surprised that a skateboard is not a suitable vehicle for a long trip.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#48I 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.
Markdown is the worst kind of formatting except for all the others.
I literally don't know how to write a sentence with more than one asterisk in on HN, and I've been here several years. Formatting is hard but Reddit at least follows a known standard and has a "formatting help" link right under the comment box if you need it.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#49Twitter sucks as a discussion platform but it excels as an insult delivery system.
so true. i would say insults or "clap-backs" are more likely to go viral than original idea/content/thoughts.
Re: How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Markdown is the worst kind of formatting except for all the others. I literally don't know how to write a sentence with more than one asterisk in on HN, and I've been here several years. Formatting is hard but Reddit at least follows a known standard and has a "formatting help" link right under the comment box if you need it.
I don't tend to agree with this, the biggest issue with Markdown is pretty much the double newline, and it only makes sense in places like email where you want single newlines ignored. On Reddit/HN where nobody writes comments with hard newlines unless they mean to change paragraphs, that feature could have been omitted.