Twitter is basically broadcasting. Why would expect bidirectional communication?
Works just fine for CB radio.
How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
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#12Twitter sucks as a discussion platform but it excels as an insult delivery system.
Which is how it became a unicorn because it turns out that humans get addicted to being angry
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#14Twitter is no more suitable to having conversations than SMS are. This is a case of trying to force a use case on a platform that isn't designed for it. Edit: It's getting very tiring to receive downvotes at every comment.
Agreed, but showing messages in order? That's doable isn't it? I'd be annoyed if my text messages started displaying out of order.
Used to happen to me all the time around 2007. And yes it was very annoying.
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#17Twitter is no more suitable to having conversations than SMS are. This is a case of trying to force a use case on a platform that isn't designed for it. Edit: It's getting very tiring to receive downvotes at every comment.
Agreed, but showing messages in order? That's doable isn't it? I'd be annoyed if my text messages started displaying out of order.
This still happens today - actually I get a lot of dropped and reordered messages in a very well covered area. People don't realize it because a lot of the time we unconsciously design our text messages to be disposable.
The only reason I know is because I'm going through a big project and the big stakeholders are frequently communicating via text messages as well as phone and email. I've considered moving us to WhatsApp but we're nearing the end so its not that annoying, we just know to use it less.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is how it became a unicorn because it turns out that humans get addicted to being angry
Especially when you can deliver insults without the threat of receiving a smack in the face back
I dunno about you, but most people don’t react to insults with physical injury, though in extreme cases that does happen.
Not that baseless insults should be encouraged.
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#19I feel like Kara Swisher just handled this in a bad way. You can easily have a conversation on Twitter: you make a tweet, someone else answers it. Rinse-repeat. Jack would've just needed to load Kara's twitter profile and reply to new tweets. What am I missing?
That wouldn't have made the news the way this did, now would it?
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#20> Twitter’s 280 characters just don’t leave enough room for a nuanced conversation.
Well, yeah. And cars are a terrible way to travel across oceans. The world discovered this ages ago. Kids, back in my day we only had 140 ch