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Is this really unique to Twitter, though? I've had very little difficulty contacting, i.e. academics whose papers I've read, or programmers who have written bl
by kerkeslager 7y ago
Is this really unique to Twitter, though?
I've had very little difficulty contacting, i.e. academics whose papers I've read, or programmers who have written blog posts.
You do miss some randos interjecting into the conversation, but these interjections detract from the conversation more often than they contribute. When I'm conversing with Joe Armstrong I'm not interested in the interjections of some rando who did an Erlang tutorial once and feels that qualifies him to have opinions.
- fossuser 7y agoThe advantage of twitter is you get to interact with someone conversationally on things they tweet that they find interesting. You also can learn unknown unknowns from things that are shared/discussed. Direct email contact is great, but has a higher threshold to engage in. I think it’s different than twitter, it compliments it - but I think it’s also a lot less frequent because of that higher threshold.