Man, this dude's crotchety. "Stop liking things I don't like!"
And twitter users doing their part in turn by getting upset someone doesn't like what they like ;)
I Hope Twitter Goes Away
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#92Twitter is the best real time news source I've ever seen. Any discussion of it's utility that ignores that is missing how a huge percentage of its users actually interact with it.
Yes its bad for conversations. Yes it is poor at building communities. But if you want to know whats happening in Twitter can be a fantastic resource. Especially (but not exclusively) if your area of interest involves sports, tech, or politics.
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#93Man, this dude's crotchety. "Stop liking things I don't like!"
I can't disagree with you, even if I really want to. I'm the same way, I want people to stop using Twitter, because I don't want to use it. I went to dotgo this month, much of the last minute communication was on Twitter, which is a really annoying platform to navigate when you don't have an account. I want to get other people of the platforms that I don't use, so I'm not forced to deal with them myself.
Being push towards technologies, behaviors and trends you don't like can be extremely frustrating. In the end me being bitter about Twitter, JavaScript, smartphones, tablets and all the other stuff I really don't care about isn't going to change public opinion. I comfort myself in the fact that Twitter will be dead soon if they continue to lose money.
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#94Well, they don't make any money, so...
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#95https://quitter.se/ https://alpha.app.net/ http://sublevel.net/ https://cupcake.io/ https://ello.co/ ..the internet is made of choice
Which sort of fails if 99% pick something different from you, or you don't want to pick.
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#96Why is everyone so into Twitter? I've never actually met someone who tweeted.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
>He claims to want to encourage conversations He certainly does not want to encourage conversation. >Twitter has absolutely no way for me to share with others that someone isn't a person I want in my communities; It seems that what this person wants is that everyone he talks to think like he does. That's not a community, that's an echo chamber with no disagreeing, no joking, no comments. It's okay if he doesn't like…
> It seems that what this person wants is that everyone he talks to think like he does. It's interesting that you say that, given that this is the same person who started a firestorm of drama by pull requesting gendered documentation in Node.js.
Oh my god, everything about the discussion of this article is nuts. What are you talking about?!
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#98Step 1: disable your own Twitter account.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> People who think twitter is a conversation platform are #doingitwrong. Period. If millions of people insist on using your product as a conversation platform, it is a conversation platform, no matter what you intended it to be. A thing is what it is.
People use twitter for announcements and then for comments on those announcements. Very few people have actual conversations. When a conversation does happen, it's usually the root poster agreeing (or disagreeing) with the person that tweeted at them. I don't see anyone going to twitter with the initial intent of conversing with someone. Nobody goes onto their computer and says "Hey I'm gonna go message this person o…
You're just flat out wrong. That's why there's a tab dedicated to replies. Twitter conversations can be incredibly interesting and benefit all participants by being public. Twitter's setup hugely encourages @ing people in your tweets.
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#100haven't we always known that twitter is just an anechoic chamber to stick narcissists in?
i guess its alright for comedians/intellectuals to post amusing stuff (even then I find the tweet value to be inconsistent enough that its not worth scrolling through their history). outside that isnt it mainly a platform for egotists & social climbers to add to their self-importance?
i like it cuz it kinda tires them out, maybe stops them from taking to the streets to act like hot shit -- and i never have to look at it :)