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Twitter only makes sense for public figures. For regular people, nobody on Twitter gives a crap about what you have to say. Facebook is fundamentally better be
by jondubois 10y ago
Twitter only makes sense for public figures. For regular people, nobody on Twitter gives a crap about what you have to say.
Facebook is fundamentally better because you only get updates from people who you know in real life - When you post something on FB, those people actually care about what you have to say (interactions are bidirectional).
To the average user, Twitter is just a glorified RSS news feed. You read other people's tweets, but nobody actually reads your tweets. The interaction is mostly unidirectional.
- pjc50 10y agoYou're Doing it Wrong(tm) :) I only got into twitter to follow people I knew in real life; I've ended up following a lot of strangers and public figures and I've made a few friends over it. My wife has made even more friends by tweeting along with TV, especially Eurovision.
- criddell 10y agoWhen you publish something, how do you let your followers know about it? Have you ever compared how much traffic your RSS feed generates compared to your tweets? On the flipside, how do you discover things?
- stephancoral 10y agoYour post is just not true. There are writers, artists, actors, etc who have been discovered through Twitter or have used it to significantly broaden their audience. @sosadtoday and Mira Gonzalez are two writers off her top of my head who basically built their careers on Twitter. And this isn't even getting into the "weird Twitter" phenomenon. Point being, people do read what you say and it's possible to get a lot of exposure. Maybe you're just not tweeting anything interesting.