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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.
My own experience is that 99% of tweets are spam, which means that it is hard to find credible people using it. For example, in technology the few people that have something to say are lost in the flood of spammers. By the way, I don't think that using twitter as a ping service for sites such as HN is helping the matter. In Facebook at least you can rely on your real life connections, so the level of signal/noise is…
"In Facebook at least you can rely on your real life connections, so the level of signal/noise is much better." why don't you just only follow accounts on twitter that don't spam their followers? I agree that there is a lot of spam, but most of that shows up when you search for a trending topic/hashtag. Those trending topics usually get popular (obtaining 'trend' status) before the spammers take over.
These type of articles seem to come from a basic assumption that non-teens do tweet. There's a gap between both MSM and the blogosphere and reality here. The blogosphere is attracted to Twitter since it likes new technology and constant self promotion. MSM is like the parents of a teen, trying to relate to their world and hanging to some band name etc they picked up. In reality, Twitter plays a much smaller part in p…
Hasn'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.
Hasn'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.
Hasn'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.
Hasn'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.