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Being a "read-only" Twitter user, I don't think it's about the technical difficulty of posting to Twitter (definitely if you're posting to Hacker News, you're n
by ryanbrunner 11y ago
Being a "read-only" Twitter user, I don't think it's about the technical difficulty of posting to Twitter (definitely if you're posting to Hacker News, you're not going to have problems knowing how to post to Twitter), but rather, the futility of it.
Twitter, to me at least, seems like a platform for relatively influential people / people who have a pretty unique insight on something happening real-time to post. If I post on Twitter, I get maybe a few likes and retweets, and nothing else. On facebook, or reddit, or even here, I'm far more likely to feel like a part of a conversation rather than a lone voice yelling into a sea of a million people.
- zippergz 11y agoThis definitely resonates with me. I've been a Twitter user since the very early days. Early on, I could tweet something (even something mundane) and get dozens of replies. More if it was something interesting. These days, no matter how interesting the Tweet, I'm lucky to get 2-3 responses (including likes). Clearly I'm not an unbiased judge of the quality of my Tweets, but by any measure I'm finding it MUCH harder to get responses these days.
- petra 11y agoOne easy thing to do is to start a discussion with someone non-famous who responded to someone you read. Often you'll get a nice conversation out of it.
- ryanbrunner 11y agoI'm sure there's strategies and whatnot that can help you grow your audience / influence. And if you're using Twitter for marketing purposes, then great. The point is that I, and I'm sure a lot of people, aren't interested in that. I want to have interesting conversations, and I'm going to gravitate to posting on platforms that allow those conversations to happen without having to do unnatural things to start them off.