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The author has a twitter account with 70k tweets, so I think that should qualify him for shit-knowing citizenship in the "on-line" community.

intoverflow2 9y ago
Yet only 6000 followers and very few of his tweets break into double figures of likes... Shouting 70 thousand times into a void doesn't actually make you a participant.
- smacktoward 9y ago
  The median Twitter user has what, a couple hundred followers? They certainly don't have 6,000. An account with that many isn't hugely famous, but it's certainly doing better than most.
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
    That's assuming they weren't paid for. Someone narcissistic enough to blast out 70K tweets is likely to pursue all avenues to inflate their self-worth.
- rtpg 9y ago
  I think he spotted you https://twitter.com/bafeldman/status/880405704510713857 https://twitter.com/bafeldman/status/880405704510713857
- reitanqild 9y ago
  Also isn't twitter much more about celebrity and brand worship than about internet culture? Or am I showing off my lack of understanding of Twitter and/or Internet culture?
  - TillE 9y ago
    No, not at all. Though I think that's what most of HN believes, strangely. Everyone fucking hates this term, but Google "Weird Twitter" for one of Twitter's many significant organic communities.
    - reitanqild 9y ago
      Though I think that's what most of HN believes, strangely. Weird how different we perceive things: For me I always thought HN adored twitter and only I and a few others cried out loud against what I perceived as the naked emperor. I try to be open to see where I'm wrong though and I might be about to change my rating to same rating as Mac OS: "probably great but doesn't work for me."
  - AnOscelot 9y ago
    No offense, but you're showing off your lack of understanding. Some people do use Twitter to tweet at their fave celebrities, but that seems to be more of a minority use case. It is useful to tweet directly at brands, especially when you need product support, but again, it's a minority of uses. In my circles, there's Weird Twitter for creativity. Political Twitter, which is now a dominant form of medium-length blogging where the punditry is broken up into 140 character paragraphs. Art Twitter sending out all sorts of photos and paintings. Cute Twitter for DogRates and other forms of reporting on fuzzy things. Twitter is still good for breaking news, and for on-the-spot reporting. Even great for weather. I live in a stormy part of the country, and hitting #kswx can be good on bad nights for getting reports from the people around me. And, of course, it's the premier way for the leader of the free world to spit his thoughts directly at the public. They may not have found any way to make money, but Twitter is a core part of internet culture. It's like Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, etc., that it's so big, it can't be pinned down to just one aspect or another.
    - reitanqild 9y ago
      No offense, but you're showing off your lack of understanding. No worries, I kind of expected that ;-) That said I'll go even further and state that I have even tried to use it for 5 year plus but I still fail to enjoy it. Guess it proves I'm hopeless at 2017 internet culture. I used to enjoy reading web rings, make stupid web sites, use irc and run a blog though. :-/
- catenthusiast 9y ago
  I’m a long-time Brian Feldman fan and I can assure you he has a vast knowledge of internet culture. He wrote one of the most comprehensive pieces on Minion memes.
ruleabidinguser 9y ago
The fact that you think this means anything says it all

intoverflow2 9y ago

Yet only 6000 followers and very few of his tweets break into double figures of likes... Shouting 70 thousand times into a void doesn't actually make you a participant.

smacktoward 9y ago
The median Twitter user has what, a couple hundred followers? They certainly don't have 6,000. An account with that many isn't hugely famous, but it's certainly doing better than most.
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
  That's assuming they weren't paid for. Someone narcissistic enough to blast out 70K tweets is likely to pursue all avenues to inflate their self-worth.
rtpg 9y ago
I think he spotted you https://twitter.com/bafeldman/status/880405704510713857 https://twitter.com/bafeldman/status/880405704510713857
reitanqild 9y ago
Also isn't twitter much more about celebrity and brand worship than about internet culture? Or am I showing off my lack of understanding of Twitter and/or Internet culture?
- TillE 9y ago
  No, not at all. Though I think that's what most of HN believes, strangely. Everyone fucking hates this term, but Google "Weird Twitter" for one of Twitter's many significant organic communities.
  - reitanqild 9y ago
    Though I think that's what most of HN believes, strangely. Weird how different we perceive things: For me I always thought HN adored twitter and only I and a few others cried out loud against what I perceived as the naked emperor. I try to be open to see where I'm wrong though and I might be about to change my rating to same rating as Mac OS: "probably great but doesn't work for me."
- AnOscelot 9y ago
  No offense, but you're showing off your lack of understanding. Some people do use Twitter to tweet at their fave celebrities, but that seems to be more of a minority use case. It is useful to tweet directly at brands, especially when you need product support, but again, it's a minority of uses. In my circles, there's Weird Twitter for creativity. Political Twitter, which is now a dominant form of medium-length blogging where the punditry is broken up into 140 character paragraphs. Art Twitter sending out all sorts of photos and paintings. Cute Twitter for DogRates and other forms of reporting on fuzzy things. Twitter is still good for breaking news, and for on-the-spot reporting. Even great for weather. I live in a stormy part of the country, and hitting #kswx can be good on bad nights for getting reports from the people around me. And, of course, it's the premier way for the leader of the free world to spit his thoughts directly at the public. They may not have found any way to make money, but Twitter is a core part of internet culture. It's like Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, etc., that it's so big, it can't be pinned down to just one aspect or another.
  - reitanqild 9y ago
    No offense, but you're showing off your lack of understanding. No worries, I kind of expected that ;-) That said I'll go even further and state that I have even tried to use it for 5 year plus but I still fail to enjoy it. Guess it proves I'm hopeless at 2017 internet culture. I used to enjoy reading web rings, make stupid web sites, use irc and run a blog though. :-/
catenthusiast 9y ago
I’m a long-time Brian Feldman fan and I can assure you he has a vast knowledge of internet culture. He wrote one of the most comprehensive pieces on Minion memes.

ruleabidinguser 9y ago

The fact that you think this means anything says it all