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The addictive value of twitter is that you can ping some quasi-famous person in your field and they will often engage in conversation. It's pretty magical. That
by acidburnNSA 6y ago
The addictive value of twitter is that you can ping some quasi-famous person in your field and they will often engage in conversation. It's pretty magical. That's not gonna happen on my paid mailing list.
- znpy 6y agoActually, if a quasi-famous person happens to be in a mailing list (I'm talking abou mailing lists, not newsletters) then it might answer your emails and participate in a conversation.
- acidburnNSA 6y agoThe mailing lists I'm on almost always get relegated to a filtered folder where loads of things irrelevant to me come by (e.g. user support). Maybe I'm just on the wrong mailing lists, but the ability to subscribe, ignore, and boost threads is pretty valuable.
- znpy 6y agoso... 1. mailing lists are noisy and 2. you don't check them very often. regarding 1. isn't twitter noisy too? regarding 2. can you really blame this on the mailing lists?
- gkoberger 6y agoOr, to put it another way – this advice is for "famous" people like Balaji, and is untenable for most people on Twitter. Twitter is different because everyone can both send and receive from the same account. This advice isn't for normal people, but rather for people who want to build an audience in a one-way-direction.