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I use twitter a lot to find clients, support (e.g. I need someone from Google or Microsoft to help me with an issue), and much more. It's also a great way for me to gather news and updates. I follow the account of most of the tech I work with so I'm always up-to-date with their latest updates.
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> 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.
A thing is what it is. That depends on what the definition of “is” is.
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I don't want to speak for the author, but an argument could be made that a product that: 1) Is massively popular; and 2) Has design flaws that actively sabotage conversation ... could lead to a situation where "B would be better if A went away," due to network effects. No matter how good an alternative B you build, people will keep on suffering with A despite its limitations , because that's where all the other peopl…
Exactly. Shotgun-blast your puerile thoughts to your dozens/hundreds/millions of followers. Don't bother reading any responses it might garner—they're going to be just as base. Now you're in the habit of just shotgunning statements into the crowd, so when you do the same thing on Facebook, you've forgotten how to engage in a more lengthy, rational discussion. Or, even worse, you've grown up with Twitter and don't und…
Alright, so twitter is terrible because its 'broadcast' instead of 'communities', and you don't like 'broadcast' but you like 'communities', so twitter should go away. a) "I hope Twitter genuinely ceases to be." b) "I want a product that enables me to build and participate in communities[...]." Having a product that enables b) doesn't mean a) must happen. Why come to that conclusion. Because you don't like participat…
I never directly communicate with people on Twitter.
Whether you or anyone else likes it or not, we are in a time where we need to learn to adapt and include, not hide and exclude.
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Then why does it need to go away? It's obviously ok at conversations if millions of people use it that way.
No, it's not "obviously ok" for conversations if "millions of people use it that way". What kind of strange thought process leads to that conclusion? It's only "obviously ok" if (a AND b), where: (a) "millions of people use it that way" (b) it's productive and beneficial when used that way. The (a) is only enough to show that Twitter serves a need people have for certain coversational structure (short messages). Does…
Edit to add: also, I didn't try to "prove that it's the best tool imaginable tool for the purpose or thats it's the pinnacle where evolution in such networks stops." I just said it's ok.
But what I hate the most is useless articles filled with random twitter posts. It's the new and lazier street interview and it's as stupid as those "X number of people started a petition / created a facebook group about [random outrage of the day]".
Twitter is OK to know when something is down, or when your favorite artist has a new album but it has weakened journalism.
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Then why does it need to go away? It's obviously ok at conversations if millions of people use it that way.
Agency effect. People would use something else if met their needs better and had as many users. (e.g. Facebook vs. Myspace)