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Twitters problem is simple, they are a router not a destination. The simple fact that you are linking to an article but not debating it on twitter unless you re
by ThomPete 10y ago
Twitters problem is simple, they are a router not a destination. The simple fact that you are linking to an article but not debating it on twitter unless you really hit some nerve is why they cant make money. 140 chars dictatorship have hindered them doing any real innovation and the puritans unfortunately have been able to slowly choke twitter.
- mxuribe 10y ago+1; totally on point!
- bbctol 10y agoIs that really their target, though? I think of twitter as a place for communities, where people react, tell jokes, and have conversations. It's not a place for serious debate, but that might not be the problem.
- ThomPete 10y agoThat's exactly the problem. Twitter is a serious place in fact if it wasn't for shared professional interests twitter would have died out earlier on. It was once people realized they could connect with people they shared interest with that it started to gain traction. But the problem is that people don't spend time on twitter and twitter doesn't encourage people to spend time there. Instead they push people off twitter to somewhere else which means they spend less time on the platform and more time on others platforms. This is opposite of Facebook where you debate the articles on the actual platform.