I Hope Twitter Goes Away
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I Hope Twitter Goes Away
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#2For someone that supposedly quit Twitter months ago, there are a surprising number of recent tweets:
https://twitter.com/Alex_Gaynor
Not to mention the big Twitter logo linking to his profile at the top of his blog.
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#3Wait, is this satire? His Twitter account is linked in the header, and it just posted about this article. He claims to want to encourage conversations, but comments are disabled. What is this?
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#4For someone that supposedly quit Twitter months ago, there are a surprising number of recent tweets: https://twitter.com/Alex_Gaynor Not to mention the big Twitter logo linking to his profile at the top of his blog.
Maybe he just wants to engage with #Brands.
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#5For someone that supposedly quit Twitter months ago, there are a surprising number of recent tweets: https://twitter.com/Alex_Gaynor Not to mention the big Twitter logo linking to his profile at the top of his blog.
Well, all his Twitter account is doing is tweeting out links to his blog posts. It's a glorified RSS feed, not what he's talking about the post.
But still, yeah.
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#6Eh. I'm definitely a part of several communities on Twitter. It's just that they're micro-communities that are fluid in size and shape. If I'm talking business stuff I'll @shazow usually. If it's coding, usually @wolever, sometimes @shazow or @lnxprgr3, depending on the language/platform/etc.
The whole hashtag thing is ... pretty hit or miss. I wouldn't mind a better solution to that. But as weak as it is, it's how I found some of my closest twitter-friends, so it can definitely work.
Thankfully I haven't had to deal with any harassment issues (not famous, nor a noticeable minority), though sadly I don't doubt that they exist to some degree.
And just to be snippy, I find it amusing that he's so against comments on blogs, preferring that you write your own blog post. Isn't that exactly like Twitter? Everyone has their own medium, none of which are explicitly connected...
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#7For someone that supposedly quit Twitter months ago, there are a surprising number of recent tweets: https://twitter.com/Alex_Gaynor Not to mention the big Twitter logo linking to his profile at the top of his blog.
Well, all his Twitter account is doing is tweeting out links to his blog posts. It's a glorified RSS feed, not what he's talking about the post. But still, yeah.
Not all his posts are links to his blog:
https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor/status/524683684180271106
But even if they were, there's a certain irony to decrying Twitter while syndicating yourself on it.
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#8Haha what a complete asshoe. Be nice if this random dude went away.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, all his Twitter account is doing is tweeting out links to his blog posts. It's a glorified RSS feed, not what he's talking about the post. But still, yeah.
Not all his posts are links to his blog: https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor/status/524683684180271106 But even if they were, there's a certain irony to decrying Twitter while syndicating yourself on it.
Maybe, there's also something to be said for being pragmatic. You may not like the way the world is right now, but you still have to live in it, you know?
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#10Disagree. Twitter is immensely valuable for me to quickly communicate with people in my "community" (the Javascript tech world), as well as keep up on news in areas I'm interested in: the Javascript tech world & a few others.