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I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by arh68 »

I acknowledge the irony of 'no comments' on this blog post but beneath that there is a point.

All communication is broadcast. What differs is how those broadcasts are released and revisited through time. Twitter emphasizes the recent, most piecemeal events. Not building upon previous works, just consuming content FIFO and shouting back into the ether. Noise.

An old blog post has more potential, more signal-to-noise, than an old tweet.

Wikipedia is an interesting result of [anonymous] editors broadcasting content towards each other in a very constructive manner. Some termites might just stack dirt, but others can use simple methods to construct complex creations.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by jshevek »

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?

I had similar thoughts. Thank you for transforming my confusion and annoyance to laughter.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by enkitosh »

I don't understand. You can build lists, I do and they are followed by other people. I have one list of Icelanders and I totally look at that list as a community of people.

Just take Snoop dogg's account for example, he has a massive amount of followers. Is this not the community of Snoop dogg fans? You can find other Snoop dogg fans and follow them and interact with them if they are doing something that you like.

I love how I can just go on twitter and there is @BettyFckinWhite going "You know who doesn't care that it's #NationalCatDay? Every cat."

and I go "hah, that's hilarious" and then I go do something else. I think social media that aims at being everything you need on one site is robbing to much of our time. Twitter keeps it snappy, yet I can interact as much as I want.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by jshevek »

forgottenpass wrote: post #116
tux3 wrote: post #21

Earlier 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. You say "seems," but it doesn't just seem like that, it is exactly that. The terminology he uses is "safe space." It doesn't mean zero joking or disagreement, but only the type and levels he approves of (minor point, but I'll clarify because I don't want conversation to degrade to pedantics). Why should he care if others use Twitter…

>> The terminology he uses is "safe space." It doesn't mean zero joking or disagreement, but only the type and levels he approves

"Safe space" is a much abused phrase. The meaning of 'safe' as it applies to physical harm is fairly easy for us to agree on. When it comes to emotional and psychological harm, what does it really mean? Where is the line drawn?

It seems that some people will not hesitate to demand the complete absence of anything they find the least bit objectionable, all in the name of 'safe spaces'.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by electronous »

enkitosh wrote: post #143

I don't understand. You can build lists, I do and they are followed by other people. I have one list of Icelanders and I totally look at that list as a community of people. Just take Snoop dogg's account for example, he has a massive amount of followers. Is this not the community of Snoop dogg fans? You can find other Snoop dogg fans and follow them and interact with them if they are doing something that you like. I…

I, too, am a man in his early twenties. Good shit.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by Oblouk »

Twitters open API is very useful. Even if it doesn't allow you to get more than 1% of the tweets (without subscribing to firehouse and paying lots of $$$) it is very useful for many different projects of mine.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by getdavidhiggins »

mrweasel wrote: post #95
getdavidhiggins wrote: post #84

https://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.

I see what you're saying - but for the 1% that are influencers (who share and curate web content) - there is a strategy called POSSE http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)

Basically a lot of people have their own independent rig, and then spam out the link to the silos, while at the same time, operating 5-7 social media accounts where they engage with the feedback on those silos (app.net/ello, etc)

We all know these 'web personalities' - the Grubers, Anil Dashes, Marcos, and even the Gaynors

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by enkitosh »

enkitosh wrote: post #143

I don't understand. You can build lists, I do and they are followed by other people. I have one list of Icelanders and I totally look at that list as a community of people. Just take Snoop dogg's account for example, he has a massive amount of followers. Is this not the community of Snoop dogg fans? You can find other Snoop dogg fans and follow them and interact with them if they are doing something that you like. I…

Wait. He has a link to his twitter account in the header of the blog. What is the last tweet? 9 hours ago, a link to this article. He hopes that twitter will go away yet he uses it constantly? I'm confused to say the least. I don't know what this man wants!

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by rantanplan »

Oh the irony!

I stopped using twitter mainly because of Alex and other similar figures in the python community.

I quickly found out that twitter(or maybe the social media in general) brings the worst in people. I was following people because of their status in the software community and I hoped that I might get informed about tech stuff directly "from the source".

Instead, what I got were stupid jokes, rallies against "hostile" people that used "he" instead of "she" (oh the horror!) and other political nonsense.

I put up with the brain farts of people I used to admire only for a few months. I then decided that twitter probably isn't for me.

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