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He's a hack. Nothing really can be done with Twitter. It's effectively an IRC client. Should never have been a big public company.
by cylinder 11y ago
He's a hack. Nothing really can be done with Twitter. It's effectively an IRC client. Should never have been a big public company.
- scrollaway 11y agoYou're being very unfair to IRC. IRC is often a fantastic debate platform - Twitter is not.
- joshkpeterson 11y agoReally tired of people who work in tech acting like the way they use technology is the only way people use technology.
- scrollaway 11y agoAre you replying to the wrong comment? What you just said is strictly irrelevant to my reply to GP. And if you're not, whatever your point is, there's actual reasons why Twitter is not a good debate platform. Kinda like there's actual reasons why an oven is not a good place to store money. Biggest one, the 140 character limit encourages "clickbaity" arguments and lossy compression of information.
- onewaystreet 11y agoTwitter is a one-to-many platform. It's nothing like IRC as most people use it. If you want to make a comparison it should be to a mailing list.
- scrollaway 11y agoTwitter is somewhere in the middle of both. It's async, skewed towards realtime, topic-centered multi-user conversation. It's an unintuitive but valid comparison tbh. What do you define as "one to many" anyway? All conversation is one-to-many unless you are actually aggregating what people are saying before presenting it somehow.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoIt's Slack, just as a public forum and a lower barrier entry to use.
- scrollaway 11y agoYou just described IRC.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoIRC is nowhere as pleasant and easy to use as Slack, hence its takeoff.