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Of course widespread use of this will mean tweets are less useful. You won't be able to find that book/movie that somebody talked about or their great analysis
by slyall 9y ago
Of course widespread use of this will mean tweets are less useful. You won't be able to find that book/movie that somebody talked about or their great analysis of some topic.
ie also on the front page today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727319
which links to a series of tweets, the top comment in HN is:
"I'm the author and linking to my tweets is a bad idea because they auto-delete after 14 days."
- scrollaway 9y agoI've seldom seen any tweet carry information for longer than a few days. The combination of the messages being small, threads being hard to read, and tweets being hard to search makes them an atrociously bad medium to store information. It's kinda like IRC discussions but almost worse. It's a shame because there's a lot of information stored in there... it's just not accessible.
- doomlaser 9y agothey're useful in gauging public responses to events or products, and old ones can be particularly useful to see how something was viewed in its time. you can get pretty fancy with date range searches at https://twitter.com/search-advanced https://twitter.com/search-advanced I use it to read the pulse on all sorts of things all the time. I even have 't' set as an address bar hotkey trigger for https://twitter.com/search?q=%s https://twitter.com/search?q=%s on every browser that supports the functionality.
- jackewiehose 9y agoLinking to these tweets is already a bad idea because often tweets get deleted or the twitter website is just terrible.
- tikhonj 9y agoThanks to the quality of Twitter's search, I already can't find that book/movie that somebody talked about unless I liked/retweeted it. It's actually pretty frustrating: I remember seeing something in my Twitter feed, I want to show it to somebody, and I simply can't find it again even if I just saw it a day ago...
- riquito 9y agoI think that widespread use of this would bring to an opposite "tweetkeep" or enhancements to Wayback Machine