Who cares? Teenagers don't have money.
Why Teens Don't and Won't Tweet
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#12Hasn'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.
Aren't there legions of creepy old dudes and women who are part of "biebernation"?
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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.
Defaults matter. Twitter is public by default and the whole ecosystem is based on this assumption, the private setting is just an afterthought. Sure, you can tweet privately, but then you lose most of the features, and I wouldn't rely on security of that.
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#14Who cares? Teenagers don't have money.
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#15Hasn'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.
The first time I have ever heard of Justin Bieber was by seeing his name in the trending topics for weeks in a row. (first half of the year) So a lot of Bieber fans do tweet.
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#16Why is this only true of teenagers? Seems like the argument applied to most people. My parents don't tweet for pretty much the same reasons, for example.
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#18Does HN really need another Facebook vs. Twitter submission? I don't think so.
You're right. However this post gives a little more than that - an insight into social media as percieved by millenials from one of their own. Nothing new, but not entirely irrelevant.
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#19Hasn'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.
> Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool.
Can you substantiate this in any way? This doesn't match my experiences using twitter at all.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The first time I have ever heard of Justin Bieber was by seeing his name in the trending topics for weeks in a row. (first half of the year) So a lot of Bieber fans do tweet.
I think twitter changed their trending topics algorithm to not show Justin Bieber every time, they opted for new popular topics instead of always popular topics.