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Me neither. There are a bunch of core design decisions baked deep into Twitter that all encourage users to be confrontational and produce drive-by snark. I’m no
by smacktoward 8y ago
Me neither. There are a bunch of core design decisions baked deep into Twitter that all encourage users to be confrontational and produce drive-by snark. I’m not sure how you remove those design decisions without turning Twitter into something that’s no longer Twitter.
- ColonelBlimp 8y agoWhat core design decisions? It's a real question. I closed my Twitter account when I realised it made me unnecesarily unhappy but without really knowing why.
- Quarrelsome 8y agoCharacter limit and somewhat unadulterated spread of popular tweets would be my guess. Encourages "drive by snark" and shows stuff to people that are likely to snark.
- smacktoward 8y agoI wrote a whole thing on that subject :-D You can read it here: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/ https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/