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Care to share which of pg's tweets you found powerful? I would say that when pg has something to say, he takes to his blog. I dont think his tweets are within a
by teej 10y ago
Care to share which of pg's tweets you found powerful? I would say that when pg has something to say, he takes to his blog. I dont think his tweets are within an order of magnitude as valuable as his blog. And for that reason I don't agree with your assessment of Twitter.
I don't think you're giving the distribution mechanisms enough credit. The only reason that the POTUS's tweets hold so much weight is because every 24 hour news company reports on them endlessly. It gets power from magnification.
- sbarre 10y agoTwitter simplifies re-broadcasting and discovery.. Only people who know Paul Graham will know about his blog, but his tweets can be re-broadcast to a much wider audience through re-tweeting, who can be exposed to him without having sought him out or known about him in the first place. I've discovered, and subsequently followed, probably half of my twitter feed through re-tweets from my existing feed. I have to imagine that's the same for a lot of others.
- projektfu 10y agoThat's funny. When I first started reading his blog, I had no idea who he was, and Twitter didn't exist yet. A friend emailed a link to me because he thought I should read it.
- sbarre 10y agoI definitely wasn't implying that there are no other ways for people to discover content, and email is of course still a very popular way for that to happen. I still email links, and receive links by email, all the time ..