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My 77 year old father forced himself to learn Twitter. Why? Financial news. My journalist friends live on Twitter. Why? Breaking political news. People I follow

by rrggrr 10y ago

My 77 year old father forced himself to learn Twitter. Why? Financial news. My journalist friends live on Twitter. Why? Breaking political news. People I follow in national security circles... on twitter. After a certain number (age or users) its not about quantity but quality.

rhizome 10y ago
I've found Twitter has become my primary news source over the past couplefew years.
- redcap 10y ago
  Twitter was amazing useful after the big earthquake/nuclear issues in 2011 (I live in Japan).
  - free2rhyme214 10y ago
    That and LINE
    - redcap 10y ago
      For me it was mainly twitter for news. Facebook was useful immediately after the quake to let family back home know that I was OK while the phone lines were still jammed. I also used it as a way to relay news in English to Facebook friends in Japan who can't read Japanese.
- trts 10y ago
  Right after Google shut down Reader for me. Twitter remains the best source of news + programming + local + academic content for me. Although on the whole I'm a little burned out on 'content' in general.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    All I can say is, follow reporters who handle topics you're interested in and it's like having your own personal news site. A messier, but more direct advance beyond RSS (which I also still use religously).
  - mevile 10y ago
    Have you tried inoreader? I use it pretty much just like I used Google Reader.
huuu 10y ago
Are you sure about the quality? I watched Twitter after EgyptAir flight 804 was lost. And I was amazed by the amount of shit I got to see. Everybody was placing assumptions, unknown 'facts', stupidity and so on. Sometimes I saw a relevant post but then it got reposted a trillion. Maybe some streams are of good quality. But my breaking news experience was not of high quality I must say.
whyoh 10y ago
>its not about quantity but quality. This sounds weird to me, because Twitter seems the epitome of quantity over quality. Even with my carefully selected RSS feeds I feel overwhelmed by all the news I get in a day. I can't imagine following news on Twitter where people think it's perfectly OK to post a new tweet every 10 minutes.
- lloeki 10y ago
  My carefully curated list of followees has a stringent eviction rule on overposters. Unfortunately, in an effort to satisfy undisciplined people that routinely follow people in the order of thousands, each one of Twitter's tentative change to incrementally bring a mimicry of automated smartness to everyone's timeline has terminally ruined it for me as my feed turned into a non-deduplicated, unordered mess appended with nonsensical suggestions (and ads).

by rrggrr 10y ago

rhizome 10y ago

I've found Twitter has become my primary news source over the past couplefew years.

redcap 10y ago
Twitter was amazing useful after the big earthquake/nuclear issues in 2011 (I live in Japan).
- free2rhyme214 10y ago
  That and LINE
  - redcap 10y ago
    For me it was mainly twitter for news. Facebook was useful immediately after the quake to let family back home know that I was OK while the phone lines were still jammed. I also used it as a way to relay news in English to Facebook friends in Japan who can't read Japanese.
trts 10y ago
Right after Google shut down Reader for me. Twitter remains the best source of news + programming + local + academic content for me. Although on the whole I'm a little burned out on 'content' in general.
- rhizome 10y ago
  All I can say is, follow reporters who handle topics you're interested in and it's like having your own personal news site. A messier, but more direct advance beyond RSS (which I also still use religously).
- mevile 10y ago
  Have you tried inoreader? I use it pretty much just like I used Google Reader.

huuu 10y ago

Are you sure about the quality? I watched Twitter after EgyptAir flight 804 was lost. And I was amazed by the amount of shit I got to see. Everybody was placing assumptions, unknown 'facts', stupidity and so on. Sometimes I saw a relevant post but then it got reposted a trillion. Maybe some streams are of good quality. But my breaking news experience was not of high quality I must say.

whyoh 10y ago

>its not about quantity but quality. This sounds weird to me, because Twitter seems the epitome of quantity over quality. Even with my carefully selected RSS feeds I feel overwhelmed by all the news I get in a day. I can't imagine following news on Twitter where people think it's perfectly OK to post a new tweet every 10 minutes.

lloeki 10y ago
My carefully curated list of followees has a stringent eviction rule on overposters. Unfortunately, in an effort to satisfy undisciplined people that routinely follow people in the order of thousands, each one of Twitter's tentative change to incrementally bring a mimicry of automated smartness to everyone's timeline has terminally ruined it for me as my feed turned into a non-deduplicated, unordered mess appended with nonsensical suggestions (and ads).