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This creates more of a small room atmosphere. If you piss all over the place, you're going to be back online tomorrow with the same folks.
Over and over again I learn the lesson that Twitter as a broadcasting medium sucks. Twitter as an open chat room is tolerable. More accessible than IRC.
I suspect others are coming to similar conclusions.
For me the benefit of Twitter is access to its social graph. I still don't personally see the benefit of Twitter as a communication channel. It is amazing for mining connections between people. In this respect I've found it an invaluable resource.
What do you use for mining Twitter's interest/social graph?
People are growing out of things, thinking platforms are getting old but forgetting that sometimes it is simply them that are in fact struggling to adapt to fast evolving ways to use a concept as generic as Twitter. I'm not saying that he is necessarily wrong about the recent changes in the timeline but it does sound a bit like "things were better when we were the kings of the hill"... you don't hear the Bieber and L…
Yeah, but sometimes services, even as generic as Twitter, simply fade off too.
This is not different from life outside of Twitter (or Facebook or Instagram or The Internet for that matter). It's life. A fraction of people will always 'misunderstand'. The Internet has generally attracted open and eager people to the platforms it builds, but as things go more mainstream, you're going to get some 'normalcy'. The Internet population becomes the rest of the global population.
Twitter is useful and interesting, but your idea of rich conversation is shallow or weak if it was ever satisfied by conversations that were had 140 characters at a time.
Don't undersimate the power of 140 characters. It helps you convey your thoughts. Take Plato's Republic as an example, most of the conversations could have happened in twitter-form, and not much would have been lost (assuming that some replies would be two or three tweets long).
Actually all the nuance would have been lost out of the Republic in that way.
Philosophy (and literature for that matter) is never just about the concepts or "plot", it's always about the way in which they are conveyed.
Twitter is useful and interesting, but your idea of rich conversation is shallow or weak if it was ever satisfied by conversations that were had 140 characters at a time.
Every single popular technology goes through this phase. For example, people used to dress up to fly on airplanes. Look around the next airport you're in and think of that.
On the Internet, Usenet's "September that never ended" was the most famous of many such transitions.
I don't think the introduction or abandoning of any particular technology is going to change that.