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For the life of me, I could never understand how to use Twitter. It seems it's getting even more difficult.
by kfk 10y ago
For the life of me, I could never understand how to use Twitter. It seems it's getting even more difficult.
- phil248 10y agoI think the complexity is part of the appeal. There's some sense of accomplishment or exclusivity from "figuring it out" and being "Twitter-savvy".
- delecti 10y agoThe appeal is that there's nothing to "get". It's entirely understandable to not understand why people use twitter, but how to use twitter is incredibly simple, beyond probably any other social network.
- phil248 10y agoI disagree. After a couple meager attempts I never figured out how to naturally follow conversations, and quickly parsing abbreviation-filled snippets of text is a skill I think needs to be learned.
- hackaflocka 10y agoI suspect that Twitter became popular because it came before Instagram and Snapchat. If it had come after, it would be ignored. I taught an MBA class with 11 students. They were required to use Twitter for a group assignment. My shock when a large majority of them had never used it, and a large minority of the new users just couldn't figure out how to use it, and why it was useful.
- kimi 10y agoI have a four-letter Twitter handle (so I have had it since the dawn of time) but the "why it was useful" part still eludes me.