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Twitter alternatives will all fail because they try to be an application for millions. They see Twitter and see the volume of users so build something for the n

by chippy 6y ago

Twitter alternatives will all fail because they try to be an application for millions. They see Twitter and see the volume of users so build something for the numbers and hope that they are less bad. But Twitter and every other thing that has grown big has 1) started small 2) was not initially created to be big and 3) was attractive to use.

rusk 6y ago
Twitter succeeded because (and I'm not au fait with the details of how exactly) they managed to onboard a lot of high profile users from a variety of different walks of life. Everybody else came to hear what they had to say. This must have been a huge amount of work, and not something that's talked about much and I can only presume you'd have to do something similar to mount any kind of credible opposition. That's a lot of work for people who's prime motivation is chasing dopamine hits. EDIT can't reply to below cause I've used up all my commenting credits for now: My word selection (au fait) relates probably to cultural context. This is a phrase that people around me use frequently. Sorry not trying to be obscurantist or anything. I just have a life outside the Internet where people talk in non-Internet ways.
- technoplato 6y ago
  > au fait As someone very curious about language usage, why wouldn’t you just write the word “familiar” there. I’m genuine curious as to your motivations. Is it brevity? Am I missing additional context this provides?
  - jan_Inkepa 6y ago
    It’s just a phrase that’s in standard usage in some dialects (like mine) but I guess not in others. I don’t think it’s deliberately obscurantist, just people writing as they talk. I’m happy with people letting having some flavour or colour to their speech rather than aiming for germanic recidivism as an ideal of purity. (Though yeah clear simple plain writing can be good to aim for, what that means depends on who yer talkin to).
- pjc50 6y ago
  In English Twitter, the "anchor celebrity" seemed to have been Stephen Fry. I'd love to see a good anthropological survey of how Twitter became popular enough that by the time of the Arab Spring it was the default "public communications" app.
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by chippy 6y ago

rusk 6y ago

Twitter succeeded because (and I'm not au fait with the details of how exactly) they managed to onboard a lot of high profile users from a variety of different walks of life. Everybody else came to hear what they had to say. This must have been a huge amount of work, and not something that's talked about much and I can only presume you'd have to do something similar to mount any kind of credible opposition. That's a lot of work for people who's prime motivation is chasing dopamine hits. EDIT can't reply to below cause I've used up all my commenting credits for now: My word selection (au fait) relates probably to cultural context. This is a phrase that people around me use frequently. Sorry not trying to be obscurantist or anything. I just have a life outside the Internet where people talk in non-Internet ways.

technoplato 6y ago
> au fait As someone very curious about language usage, why wouldn’t you just write the word “familiar” there. I’m genuine curious as to your motivations. Is it brevity? Am I missing additional context this provides?
- jan_Inkepa 6y ago
  It’s just a phrase that’s in standard usage in some dialects (like mine) but I guess not in others. I don’t think it’s deliberately obscurantist, just people writing as they talk. I’m happy with people letting having some flavour or colour to their speech rather than aiming for germanic recidivism as an ideal of purity. (Though yeah clear simple plain writing can be good to aim for, what that means depends on who yer talkin to).
pjc50 6y ago
In English Twitter, the "anchor celebrity" seemed to have been Stephen Fry. I'd love to see a good anthropological survey of how Twitter became popular enough that by the time of the Arab Spring it was the default "public communications" app.
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