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Why? The only thing twitter does better than basically anything is: Has a giant userbase containing many influential Internet celebrities. Except for that it

Why? The only thing twitter does better than basically anything is: Has a giant userbase containing many influential Internet celebrities. Except for that it is inferior in almost every single way, starting with the ridiculously low character limit, continuing with the spam everyone all the time etc the list goes on. Hey, even google+ is better in several ways, except for the part about Internet celebrities.

bad_user 10y ago
That ridiculously low character limit is one of the reasons I'm active on Twitter much more than anywhere else, as it forces people to be concise. And for everything else, like complex thoughts that can't be expressed as tweets, there are always blogs, whose URLs you can also distribute via Twitter. Twitter basically works like your personal aggregator of interesting stuff. And I freaking hate people using Facebook or Google+ for blogging, because these services suck for blogging. On spam, I don't know what you're talking about, because I get no spam. I'm @alexelcu on Twitter, my account is from 2008 and I'm counting about 20 blocked accounts corresponding to about 20 spams I got in 8 years, which is actually rather impressive. I think people complaining about the char limit don't understand the value of Twitter. And no, Google+ seriously sucks, I could rant all day about how much Google+ sucks. And you know what? Google+ wouldn't need Internet celebrities if it would be compatible with the open Internet, but it isn't ;-)
- kemayo 10y ago
  Counterpoint on the spam thing: I get a noticeable amount -- one a day or so -- of spam followers. That is, accounts that follow me entirely so I'll see their name in the notification email, and then unfollow me within a day. It's an interesting form of spam, which isn't trackable by observing Twitter message traffic as it lives entirely in account metadata.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  Eh by spam-everyone-all-the-time I mean that any message I post will be "spammed" out to all my followers even if they just follow me for my Java interest or because I sometimes tweet about local politics.
  - pjc50 10y ago
    But this is one of the things I like about twitter :) Well, most of the time. Sometimes you find out your heroes are terrible people. When it works you find out things you didn't know you were interested in - getting out of the 'filter bubble'.

bad_user 10y ago

That ridiculously low character limit is one of the reasons I'm active on Twitter much more than anywhere else, as it forces people to be concise. And for everything else, like complex thoughts that can't be expressed as tweets, there are always blogs, whose URLs you can also distribute via Twitter. Twitter basically works like your personal aggregator of interesting stuff. And I freaking hate people using Facebook or Google+ for blogging, because these services suck for blogging. On spam, I don't know what you're talking about, because I get no spam. I'm @alexelcu on Twitter, my account is from 2008 and I'm counting about 20 blocked accounts corresponding to about 20 spams I got in 8 years, which is actually rather impressive. I think people complaining about the char limit don't understand the value of Twitter. And no, Google+ seriously sucks, I could rant all day about how much Google+ sucks. And you know what? Google+ wouldn't need Internet celebrities if it would be compatible with the open Internet, but it isn't ;-)

kemayo 10y ago
Counterpoint on the spam thing: I get a noticeable amount -- one a day or so -- of spam followers. That is, accounts that follow me entirely so I'll see their name in the notification email, and then unfollow me within a day. It's an interesting form of spam, which isn't trackable by observing Twitter message traffic as it lives entirely in account metadata.
reitanqild 10y ago
Eh by spam-everyone-all-the-time I mean that any message I post will be "spammed" out to all my followers even if they just follow me for my Java interest or because I sometimes tweet about local politics.
- pjc50 10y ago
  But this is one of the things I like about twitter :) Well, most of the time. Sometimes you find out your heroes are terrible people. When it works you find out things you didn't know you were interested in - getting out of the 'filter bubble'.