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From the comments section on avc.com: "Twitter isn't a social network. It's a real-time publishing engine and consumer-customizable distribution network." I c

• cpeterso 11y ago
  Twitter is like "RSS for the rest of us." I've long wondered whether Twitter could have grown into a more approachable Google Reader product. When major news services are tweeting links to their articles even though they need to use unprofessional tweet-speak, then you know there is value here for publishers to reach readers.
• jshen 11y ago
  This highlights my biggest complaint about twitter. I use it largely as your quote describes, to get publish events from people/organizations I'm interested in. In short, I use it like a modern RSS feed. The problem is that a whole bunch of people see twitter as something different, including twitter if their plan to increase the tweet limit to 10,000 happens. Some use it as a commenting system. Some use it as a medium (think tweet storms), etc. And this leaves me with the question, what is twitter trying to be? I honestly can't figure it out, and that's my issue with twitter.
  • prawn 11y ago
    AFAIK, the 10k limit change is intended to enable a publisher to include their content (article, etc) in an expanded version of their tweet. So instead of you clicking a headline in your RSS feed and getting the story, you'd hit the tweet and get the story.