I Hope Twitter Goes Away • Hacker News Board

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by lnanek2 » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 7:52 PM UTC

cr3ative wrote: post #3

Wait, 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?

The article is all about how he doesn't want to communicate with people unless they are in his specifically selected group of people he thinks is OK. So allowing blog comments would probably let anyone communicate, which is what he dislikes about Twitter. So I see the blog comments being disabled as more in line with his philosophy, at least.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 7:56 PM UTC

penprog wrote: post #57

[deleted] wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Ok, i'll bite Because twitter boosts "negative social behavior" (wtf? by whose definition?) you want a platform that allows people to report natural disasters, broadcast their products/movements, report corruption, communicate with their fan base, etc. to die? Also, let's all ignore that fact that twitter is used by a ton of government dissidents living in totalitarian governments to broadcast the oppression that occ…

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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by _random_ » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 7:58 PM UTC

Plus all good names are taken and there is no strategy for recycling unused ones - simply embarrassing.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by habosa » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 7:58 PM UTC

Ok this may seem crazy, but check out Google+ again. It is a really nice mix of broadcast and communities (when you can find a good community). It won't replace your FB or your Twitter, but it seems to have a solution to this one niche.

It has the directed-edge-graph of Twitter and also really strong support for communities and pages. I know a lot of the developer communities on there are really strong (I work on Developer Relations at Google so I see it all the time).

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by lk145 » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 8:00 PM UTC

If discussions > broadcast then why disable comments?

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by programminggeek » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 8:00 PM UTC

Twitter won't go away for say 50-100 years. Why? There is value in the name/idea in the public consciousness.

Let's not forget that myspace, friendster, and livejournal still exist. There are a lot of pre 2000 sites and brands that are still sort of a live in some kind of zombie state or another.

It's weird.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by cloudwizard » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 8:06 PM UTC

I am annoyed when people ask me for a twitter id to register. My twitter accounts are just for testing. I think there is a use for twitter as a generator for random number seeds

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by mcantelon » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 8:07 PM UTC

baby wrote: post #38

mbesto wrote: post #28

Slightly side topic - does anyone else feel like they "need" to use Twitter because it's a good distribution platform (the "human RSS"), but generally don't particularly enjoy it? I personally find myself thinking "oh maybe I should post that stupid comment that's in my head on Twitter...last time I did it I got X followers, so I should probably continue to do it"

yup. I'm worse than the author here, I've never understood twitter. It's bad for writing because of the limitation, it's bad to keep track of something because of all the noise, it's bad for discussions, it's bad for communities, etc... The only good things that I can come up with are: broadcasting, stalking someone, press 2.0. And yes I do use it, I have a twitter account with 600+ followers (I don't even know if th…

>it's bad for communities

I'd say it's good for sharing intel within communities, just not for in-depth discussion (other sites are good for that).

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by hvs » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 8:18 PM UTC

GI_Josh wrote: post #11

I don't necessarily agree that Twitter users can't build communities. A friend of mine writes for a sports blog specific to an NFL team. His twitter account (and @replies) show that he is a part of a very strong community around the team. The tweets from these super-fans aren't just missives shouted into space, these people use Twitter almost solely as a response tool to each other. Their tweets look very much like s…

I agree. The hockey and baseball Twittersphere is awash in conversations. I've made a number of real-life friends through Twitter in these communities.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by tg3 » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 8:18 PM UTC

Isn't blogging a form of "broadcast"? Twitter was a originally a "micro-blogging" service after all.

I don't necessarily disagree with his point about the levels of abuse on Twitter, but the medium with which he is expressing his message (his blog) seems to disprove his point.

Why do blog posts seem to be (mostly) free of these levels of abuse, while they're so rampant on Twitter?