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Twitter 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.
by onewaystreet 11y ago
Twitter 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.