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My impression of Twitter is that it is people hungry to build a reputation and a 'personal brand' and Tumblr trades on anonymity?
by kristianc 7y ago
My impression of Twitter is that it is people hungry to build a reputation and a 'personal brand' and Tumblr trades on anonymity?
- kenhwang 7y agoBoth are as branded or anonymous as you want it to be and I've seen both used for either. I really think the key component for both is how easy it is to share and discuss content that the sharer didn't create with people they don't know with as much or little privacy as they want. That makes it different from Instagram which is focused on original content with little discussion. Reddit which is focused on new content with much heavier focus on discussion. Facebook which is supposed to be for personal content with familiar people.
- kristianc 7y agoSure - Twitter may not have any specific requirement for you to use a real name, but Twitter will also likely go out of its way to make make your life uncomfortable if you do wish to remain anonymous (not limited to requiring a phone number, excluding you from nice trinkets such as verification, deprioritizing you in its algorithm if you're sharing from a private account, making it harder to RT you). The use case for Twitter is clearly building out a public persona. I'm not aware of many that were trying to do that with Tumblr.