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There's nothing inherently wrong with the Twitter platform.

• Scoping_dindus 8y ago
  Depends on what the goal is. 300 characters incentivizes driveby remarks rather than articulate conversations. Twitter also has really bad content enforcement. Not inherent to the format, but it's worth consideration in the interest of practicality.
  • eahman02 8y ago
    Who has time and energy for articulate conversations over the internet? What do we want, a social network for the few?
    • IGI-111 8y ago
      Usenet was fun while it lasted. But september will probably never end.
      • eahman02 8y ago
        In fact, it's about to start.
• lmm 8y ago
  There was a great article I've never been able to find again about how the UI of Twitter naturally guides users into de facto bullying, and most of the advice given by experienced Twitter users (e.g. check existing replies to a tweet before adding your own) is working around UI choices made by the system itself.
  • pferde 8y ago
    I wonder how many of those bully-inducing UI features are also present in software like Mastodon or Diaspora, and are therefore disasters-in-waiting, to be triggered once critical mass of users is reached.
  • Pete_D 8y ago
    Was it this one? https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143131/http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=41853 https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143131/http://www.shamus... (archive link because the site seems to be down at the moment)
    • lmm 8y ago
      It wasn't, but that's a good article on the same topic. The one I was thinking of was focused more on low-level details of the twitter UI.