It's like standing in front of a firehose of tiny little bits of information. Only if you want to take the trouble to follow hashtags on topics that interest you does it make sense. For me it's often not worth the bother.
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Twitter is the public forum in the way of: news, press releases, town halls, debates, coffee houses, etc.
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Twitter is wonderful. I've come across so many interesting people with unique viewpoints from across the globe on it, and I actually met one of my best friends on there. Wonderful, and far, far better for me than Facebook. I agree with summary of this article, that Twitter struggles because it doesn't know what it is - and therefore can't effectively convey that to a wider potential user base.
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Looking at Twitter always makes me feel bad about myself. I feel like I'm back in the cafeteria in middle school, trying to one-up the cool kids with witty or snarky repartee. For whatever reason, Instagram makes me feel happy -- I'm getting a glimpse of friends' lives, traveling alongside them for a moment, sharing some beautiful sight. Facebook? Meh.
I can understand Twitter's appeal as a way for normal folks to feel connected to a celebrity's daily routine but I have never valued any other purpose it serves or content it provides. Am I the only one with that opinion? I understand it more as a fun toy to chat and make yourself heard. But when the media use its feed to gauge public opinions or create stories from, it's very worrying as an intelligent source. Exactly who are these people who jump onto twitter to comment on issues and trends? I feel corporations and advertisers jumped onto these social media bandwagons out of pure fear of being left behind. They have given social media way too much worth and never stopped to analyze its value. It is just another toy for us to make ourselves heard and feel of value in the world. But I'm sorry to say no one is listening and no one really cares. And I have a feeling Twitter management has known this for a long time.
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What's a magazine?
Twitter's a media format. It's really difficult to describe because it genuinely depends what you fill it with. But the format's great.
Wd be v interested on your thoughts on this, I liked your book. Thanks for the article. M
Twitter's a media format. It's really difficult to describe because it genuinely depends what you fill it with. But the format's great.
Wd be v interested on your thoughts on this, I liked your book. Thanks for the article. M
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Twitter is a giant cocktail party, and you choose which conversations to walk past and which to join in.
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Twitter ... Twitter ... Who are you? What have you sacrificed?
Brian Irey: You've backed the wrong horse.
"You were right by his side ... and now you denied."
"Die ... in your own demolition!"
Brian Irey: You've backed the wrong horse.
"You were right by his side ... and now you denied."
"Die ... in your own demolition!"
I love Twitter. I don't love Facebook. I love that Twitter is about lots of things. And that lots of people all over the world are tweeting all sorts of things that may not make sense to Nick Bilton but make perfect sense to me. I use Twitter in real time while watching MSNBC. Progressives I connected with watching #inners or #maddow now live tweet The Walking Dead together and recommend other shows. And then there is Sharknado, what fun, and Younger. I've made new 'friends' on Twitter live tweeting Younger. I like that it is "favorite" not "like". The two are NOT the same. I like that I can follow (and learn from) people in Russia, and Ireland, and Australia, and Malaysia, and Argentina, and the list goes on. Now I cannot speak to how they monetize or will monetize, but I have learned far more on Twitter than on Facebook. I use Twitter for community, for news, for new things. I didn't know about Slooh from Facebook. I learned about it on Twitter. Sometimes I read something on Facebook and tweet it. Sometimes people on Twitter get excited about it. Sometimes I read an article tweeted by someone I follow and then share it on Facebook. And people on Facebook like it. One of the things that is so great about Twitter is that you need to learn how to do it. And then you can teach others. And btw, the search function on Twitter is way better than the search function on Facebook. Have I missed anything? Oh yes, Twitter translations actually make sense. Facebook? Not so much.
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The problem I have with twitter is separating the wheat from the chaff. Periodically, there is a brilliant link or insight from someone that I follow. The rest is stream of consciousness dribble. That serves a purpose too, but I am not sure in what way. Maybe it is to absorb the zeitgeist of the day and appreciate how fast it changes.
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Drivel = v. verb 1. talk nonsense
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That is what I use lists for. Almost like my own newspaper sections based on my interests. Many times I place persons on lists without "following" them. This leaves me only seeing the most important tweets on my feed and leaving the others on lists that I can look at when I feel like seeing posts related to, for example, DC Museums.
I opened a twitter account for a few minutes once. The couple of people I "followed" kept re-tweeting a bunch of stuff I wasn't interested in, and I deleted my account. It's handy, tho', for stalking an ex-boyfriend. I think a lot of users don't understand the fine points of using it, and no one seems to realize that you can google someone's twitter handle on a computer and see everything they tweet and every "conversation" they engage in without you having to have an account or even "follow" them. Warning: sometimes you find yourself in a cesspool of pornography this way!
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You can turn off retweets from individual users, but I guess that's a finer point.
Twitter is great. The "Promoted Tweets" ad platform seems to lure me in a couple of times a month. I use twitter 10x more than Facebook.
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