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Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by atomi »

duxup wrote: post #64

>Cultivate a good set of accounts to follow Man I'm so done with that. Even cultivating a group of accounts on say a topic ... they're still people so I get their angry rants about whatever issue. And I respect their right to be a person and tweet about what they want, but that's a double edged sword as far as my interest goes. I really don't want to see a twitter spat, ever. Even if I AGREE with someone I'm followin…

I agree with everything you said. But this comment is a great example of a rant you don't want to see on Twitter.

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by duxup »

atomi wrote: post #91
duxup wrote: post #64

>Cultivate a good set of accounts to follow Man I'm so done with that. Even cultivating a group of accounts on say a topic ... they're still people so I get their angry rants about whatever issue. And I respect their right to be a person and tweet about what they want, but that's a double edged sword as far as my interest goes. I really don't want to see a twitter spat, ever. Even if I AGREE with someone I'm followin…

I agree with everything you said. But this comment is a great example of a rant you don't want to see on Twitter.

It's a good thing nobody has to see it on there ;)

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by tmaly »

mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

Earlier I used to follow all sorts of famous twitter accounts and had joined all sorts of (ugly debate). I really liked Twitter in comparison to FB in the sense that it introduced me people of millions types from all over the world. On FB, everyone was already known to me so there was no novelty in what I was browsing. However, later on I realized that Twitter is actually a "outrage generating machine". Everyone is o…

I have observed the same thing with famous accounts. I stopped following most of them. I stick with regular people that tweet about interesting project or accounts with some inspiration statements.

As you get older, you just don't have all this free time to sit there and scroll through garbage.

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by prionassembly »

Zealotux wrote: post #13

I have an honest question for Twitter users of HN: what's the net positive value of Twitter to your life? It feels like using Twitter or not has been an uninterrupted argument for years, even on HN, as if on one end your rational brain knows Twitter is detrimental to your mental health, but on the other end: it's a great dopamine, and outrage dispenser.

To build a (small, steady) following.

Twitter is full of weird people who are the core potential audience of my creative/intellectual stuff. (HN in contrast is not.)

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by skinkestek »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #72
mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

Earlier I used to follow all sorts of famous twitter accounts and had joined all sorts of (ugly debate). I really liked Twitter in comparison to FB in the sense that it introduced me people of millions types from all over the world. On FB, everyone was already known to me so there was no novelty in what I was browsing. However, later on I realized that Twitter is actually a "outrage generating machine". Everyone is o…

Same thing here. Was following smart programmers and engineers on programming related matters. Fast forward a few years and most of them were spending their time talking about completely unrelated US political matters and petty drama 99% of the time and very little actual programming stuff. I just removed Twitter from my phone. I'm not sure how Twitter works now, but I imagine that a system of bot generated topics ra…

> and most of them were spending their time talking about completely unrelated US political matters and petty drama 99% of the time and very little actual programming stuff.

And that was one of the brilliant things about Google+:

You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think).

Another thing was - after Google lost the nym wars their ux for using pseudonym accounts became one of the best I was aware of (no, it is not the same as the multiple-logged-in-accounts ux which I find rather unsatisfactory, but I guess parts of it lives on in YouTube were I can still see my pseudonym(s) when I log in.)

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by kgonza »

tinyhouse wrote: post #52

The fact that the social justice conversation in America talks only about black people, as this post does as well, shows the majority of people only care about social justice issues when the minority group becomes big and loud enough. I just skimmed through the article (it's long, I don't have time to read the entire thing). I completely disagree about her overall statement. I prefer not to talk politics in my public…

The minority group is probably louder but if you've paid attention to demographics it's actually become smaller. But it should tell you a lot about your society that people are grudgingly treated with a little more respect only after they become "big and loud enough."

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by nfriedly »

I tend to use Twitter as a write-only medium. If there's something I want to share with the world, I might tweet about it. But I almost never log in and just start scrolling.

I guess I also use it for occasionally for 1-on-1 communication via DM's and @mentions.

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by ihuman »

balaam wrote: post #42
mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

Earlier I used to follow all sorts of famous twitter accounts and had joined all sorts of (ugly debate). I really liked Twitter in comparison to FB in the sense that it introduced me people of millions types from all over the world. On FB, everyone was already known to me so there was no novelty in what I was browsing. However, later on I realized that Twitter is actually a "outrage generating machine". Everyone is o…

This is the best way to use twitter. You get a clear stream of useful, relevant content. Unfortunately this also gets framed as a "filter bubble". I want a filter bubble. The problem in practice is that twitter actively fights you doing this. It tries to pour raw sewage into your nice clean stream and you can't stop it. You see what other people have liked, or what's popular or lots of other things I don't want to se…

> You see what other people have liked, or what's popular or lots of other things I don't want to see.

If you use a third-party app, you won't get most of that. You'll just get a reverse-chronological timeline of people's tweets and retweets, and I think some allow you to filter out retweets.

Re: On Using Twitter

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Post by allenu »

mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

Earlier I used to follow all sorts of famous twitter accounts and had joined all sorts of (ugly debate). I really liked Twitter in comparison to FB in the sense that it introduced me people of millions types from all over the world. On FB, everyone was already known to me so there was no novelty in what I was browsing. However, later on I realized that Twitter is actually a "outrage generating machine". Everyone is o…

I used to follow a lot of reporters. Even if I agree with the reporting, I noticed that there was just too negativity in my stream that was overwhelming. Everything was just amplified every day and yeah, I agree it's an outrage generating machine. A couple of weeks ago I unfollowed a bunch of blue checkmark accounts (including many reporters), and have also found it's much more pleasant.
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