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The product has "twit" right in the name. Twitter is where you go to read twits or become one. Why is anyone surprised? From its tiny size limits to its byzant
by nullc 8y ago
The product has "twit" right in the name. Twitter is where you go to read twits or become one. Why is anyone surprised?
From its tiny size limits to its byzantine threading and inability to follow all of one person without creating an account (which they often instantly ban, even if it does nothing but read)... Twitter is a communications medium constructed in a way that maximizes the ability ferment outrage and minimizes the ability to inform. Twitter is a platform for twits to be twits as an amusement to other twits.
Fortunately, you don't have to use it and a great majority of people largely don't. For some reason it gets fetishized by the media -- probably because twittishness is good for business -- and spun as if it were important.
- kaffeemitsahne 8y ago> For some reason it gets fetishized by the media -- probably because twittishness is good for business -- and spun as if it were important. I've always assumed this is simply because a lot of journalists happen to be on Twitter.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoProtip: you can text "follow @username" to 40404 to follow people without having a twitter account. I much prefer getting a text from a select few people when they tweet. And if you're not a fan of twitter there's the bonus of it costing them money without giving ad revenue.
- bubblewrap 8y agoExcept you can follow all sorts of experts and famous people om there. Not all of them are twits. Even Paul Graham drops the occasional tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg https://twitter.com/paulg
- asdff 8y agoThat's dependent on your interests though. In my field people are too busy writing manuscripts to write a tweet.
- bubblewrap 8y agoWhat field is that?
- kurtisc 8y agoThe UK Prime Minister made the twit joke in 2009 and it was trite then too.