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Honestly, twitter to me feels... pointless. There was a time, when people kept nagging me to enter the social world to pump my startup and whatnot, and I even
by speeder 11y ago
Honestly, twitter to me feels... pointless.
There was a time, when people kept nagging me to enter the social world to pump my startup and whatnot, and I even learned how to install several software to help me manage it (including some that Twitter bought and killed, something I consider a serious mistake of theirs).
I twitted prolifically, got several followers, managed to sometimes interact with famous people, then after all the difficulties in using their service after they killed the clients they bought, I started to forget more and more, until I wans't using it anymore.
Then now years later, I noticed... it made no difference, the only different between using twitter, and not using twitter, is that by not using twitter I save time to do other more useful things, and also more entertaining things, twitter is not good to get useful information, not good to entertain, and not a IM, in fact I have no idea what twitter is for.
So to me, twitter is pointless... Also extremely hard to use (ie: some people obviously saw some effect from twitter, but... HOW? I even used some tracking apps to help, like Klout and whatnot... I scored my "brownie points" a bit, but I always felt lost, what I should write, and why? And to who?
If I as user, don't figure why I am reader other people stuff, how as content producer I figure what I am writing, and to who?)
- downtide 11y agoTwitter makes for an easy way to publish and consume status feeds. And I like the shortform. There are other ways to do the same, but the tools weirdly are still not ready for mass consumption.
- hayksaakian 11y agoFor me Twitter is a way to speak directly to public figures in a public way.
- partisan 11y agoMy only interaction with twitter is through the weekly "Popular in your network" emails I get every few days. I actually do find them useful; I don't follow anyone extraneous and so the items are almost always directly related to content I am interested in. I am not a producer of content, so for me, Twitter will always be a one-way street. What that means is that it competes with any other news/content source such as Google News, HN, Reddit, etc. If it weren't for those periodic, curated, but extremely relevant emails, twitter wouldn't be on my list of news sources. I imagine they will start injecting sponsored messages on those emails and then I might have to reconsider.