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There's tons of superficial and annoying posts on Medium and Facebook posts, as well as people sharing screenshots of their iPhone notes app on Twitter. Most of

There's tons of superficial and annoying posts on Medium and Facebook posts, as well as people sharing screenshots of their iPhone notes app on Twitter. Most of their authors posted them because they want attention. It's not about the character limit. It's more about how humans want attention and there's an infrastructure to support that desire.

saurik 9y ago
But there are also tons of reasoned and interesting posts on those mediums... the closest that exist on Twitter is the occasionally burst of tweets that you probably didn't even read on Twitter but saw on one of those Twitter conversation archiving websites, as the burst of tweets is totally untraceable :/. Twitter doesn't just "encourage" superficial content with its character limit: it actively enforces superficial content if you want to participate. I have half a million followers on Twitter and I essentially don't ever post anything there as it is next to impossible to say anything of value in 140 characters :/. Everyone I know in my field with Twitter accounts and a ton of followers essentially just use it to post snide bullshit and start arguments, or try and fail to be informative and spend the next week trying and failing to correct some misconception people got due to lack of context. The closest it comes to ever working is in the small community of people who seriously take to reddit to discuss what someone said on Twitter, which is the dumbest thing I could imagine... and it isn't even like Twitter is some amazingly successful company that can say "you are wrong, this works great": most of the talk about them is that they will fail or be acquired at a much lower valuation than they had many years ago.
- ikeyany 9y ago
  Twitter is an endless bag of potato chips for the mind. However, it's within our nature to seek the path of least resistance, and munch on snack food to keep busy.

saurik 9y ago

But there are also tons of reasoned and interesting posts on those mediums... the closest that exist on Twitter is the occasionally burst of tweets that you probably didn't even read on Twitter but saw on one of those Twitter conversation archiving websites, as the burst of tweets is totally untraceable :/. Twitter doesn't just "encourage" superficial content with its character limit: it actively enforces superficial content if you want to participate. I have half a million followers on Twitter and I essentially don't ever post anything there as it is next to impossible to say anything of value in 140 characters :/. Everyone I know in my field with Twitter accounts and a ton of followers essentially just use it to post snide bullshit and start arguments, or try and fail to be informative and spend the next week trying and failing to correct some misconception people got due to lack of context. The closest it comes to ever working is in the small community of people who seriously take to reddit to discuss what someone said on Twitter, which is the dumbest thing I could imagine... and it isn't even like Twitter is some amazingly successful company that can say "you are wrong, this works great": most of the talk about them is that they will fail or be acquired at a much lower valuation than they had many years ago.

ikeyany 9y ago
Twitter is an endless bag of potato chips for the mind. However, it's within our nature to seek the path of least resistance, and munch on snack food to keep busy.