Why Teens Don't and Won't Tweet
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Why Teens Don't and Won't Tweet
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#2Hasn't the writer heard of Justin Bieber? Who does he think his 6 million followers are?
I actually think Bieber might be a big reason why more and more teenagers ARE starting to tweet. I recently did interviews with High School kids and was surprised to hear how many of them used twitter.
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#3Twitter is a platform built for inclusive broadcast (to everyone), and to teenagers it offers no obvious value.
The author does not seem to realise that the Protected tweets feature is an option that obviates those objections, and makes Twitter function in the "circle of friends" manner the author desires.
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#4Twitter is more "public" than Facebook, and so serves a different purpose. Teenagers become adults.
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#5Twitter is a platform built for inclusive broadcast (to everyone), and to teenagers it offers no obvious value. The author does not seem to realise that the Protected tweets feature is an option that obviates those objections, and makes Twitter function in the "circle of friends" manner the author desires.
What do protected tweets do that a Facebook status update wouldn't? Public tweets have added value over Facebook statuses for some people, but I don't see where protected tweets would.
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#6Hasn't the writer heard of Justin Bieber? Who does he think his 6 million followers are? I actually think Bieber might be a big reason why more and more teenagers ARE starting to tweet. I recently did interviews with High School kids and was surprised to hear how many of them used twitter.
The author admits that some subset of teens do tweet for specific reasons. He does not really mention whether teens follow others on twitter or not, just whether they broadcast information. I agree that most of those followers of Justin Bieber are probably teenagers, however how many are actively tweeting as well as following? I think you may be arguing a point the author wasn't trying to make. His opinions were about producing information, not consuming it.
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#7Twitter is a platform built for inclusive broadcast (to everyone), and to teenagers it offers no obvious value. The author does not seem to realise that the Protected tweets feature is an option that obviates those objections, and makes Twitter function in the "circle of friends" manner the author desires.
What do protected tweets do that a Facebook status update wouldn't? Public tweets have added value over Facebook statuses for some people, but I don't see where protected tweets would.
Nothing, but I was responding to the article stating that Twitter is for broadcasting whereas Facebook keeps updates from being public.
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#8Does HN really need another Facebook vs. Twitter submission? I don't think so.
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#9Hasn't the writer heard of Justin Bieber? Who does he think his 6 million followers are? I actually think Bieber might be a big reason why more and more teenagers ARE starting to tweet. I recently did interviews with High School kids and was surprised to hear how many of them used twitter.
Just because Justin Bieber has 6m followers, doesn't mean any of them tweet.
Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool.
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#10Twitter is more "public" than Facebook, and so serves a different purpose. Teenagers become adults.
Not if you protect your tweets.