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Re: The End of Big Twitter

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Post by transpy » Wed, Sep 03, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

RickS wrote: post #42

colinbartlett wrote: post #26

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I don't really see Quora ever getting the regular Joes.

I think it has already. My feed now looks like this: What should a 22 year old do with $3000 What should a 23 year old do with $2000 What should a 25 year old do with $5000 on and on and on. A few years ago, it would have been "How can/should spending and saving evolve over a person's life?" I know that's a specific and perhaps pedantic example, but there's been a definite shift in the vibe on Quora, from a place whe…

I also think it has happened already: I want to search for questions about the big bang, I'm typing lazily, expecting the system to auto complete my intent; but when I am at "big b", the suggestions are: "big brother", "big breasts", and "big booty".

Re: The End of Big Twitter

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Post by lepht » Wed, Sep 03, 2014, 4:08 PM UTC

tormeh wrote: post #56

Litost wrote: post #55

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I watched a Noam Chomsky youtube video recently, where he said something similar about TV news. The amount of time you get is only about enough to throw out some half-baked soundbite i.e. "XXX are terrorists", "All benefit claimaints are scroungers" and if it doesn't reiterate whatever the perceived wisdom of the day is, there's no way you'll get enough time to make a point. I don't use twitter but i imagine the 140…

I think a character limit is a good idea, but it should be closer to 400 or something. It should force people to be concise, but not force people to divide their message in multiple posts. I don't really know where the sweet spot is, but I don't think it's 140.

App.net's 256 characters is a very nice 'sweet spot' for me.

Re: The End of Big Twitter

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Post by calinet6 » Wed, Sep 03, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

tormeh wrote: post #56

Litost wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watched a Noam Chomsky youtube video recently, where he said something similar about TV news. The amount of time you get is only about enough to throw out some half-baked soundbite i.e. "XXX are terrorists", "All benefit claimaints are scroungers" and if it doesn't reiterate whatever the perceived wisdom of the day is, there's no way you'll get enough time to make a point. I don't use twitter but i imagine the 140…

I think a character limit is a good idea, but it should be closer to 400 or something. It should force people to be concise, but not force people to divide their message in multiple posts. I don't really know where the sweet spot is, but I don't think it's 140.

I imagine you could design a UX which encouraged people to keep their messages short, but enabled longer elaboration when necessary.

Re: The End of Big Twitter

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Post by ducuboy » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 5:34 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #4

austenallred wrote: post #2

The same frustrations (and more) are constantly levied against Facebook (as well as nearly every other platform). The reality is, however, that people are joining much, much faster than they're leaving. So even if 1 in 10 hates a platform and refuses to use it, that is negated by the 5 that are joining.

Basically, this is just the lament of the early adopters realising that as a space gains more and more users, the more it begins to reflect the mainstream regular person. That's okay, in my opinion, and I disagree with the premise of the article. Personally, I still get tonnes of value out of Twitter. I follow a lot of people I admire, and a lot of my friends, and my Twitter feed has none of the toxic bickering that…

Exactly my point here

"The Beginning of Big Twitter" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8262519