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A bit of a tangent, but why do people insist on posting these things to twitter? They are so annoying to read like that. What does twitter offer that other plat

A bit of a tangent, but why do people insist on posting these things to twitter? They are so annoying to read like that. What does twitter offer that other platforms, designed for this type of content, don't?

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> What does twitter offer that other platforms don't? Its audience.
- teawrecks 5y ago
  Twitter has made it too annoying to use their site without an account. I'm no longer part of that audience.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I'm sure Twitter sheds a tear for you and I not being there, but laugh all the way to the bank for the millions that are.
  - eli 5y ago
    Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded
haswell 5y ago
> What does twitter offer that other platforms, designed for this type of content, don't? Wide reach, and ongoing engagement/discussion. I read threads like this because the follow-on discussion is often just as or more interesting than the thread itself. I think a blog post is also a good option here, but most blogs aren’t well suited for having a discussion.
- matthewdgreen 5y ago
  Here’s the blog post I wrote in 2015, if you prefer. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-juniper-backdoor/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-junip...
user-the-name 5y ago
Readers.
blincoln 5y ago
There are a lot of information security discussions that only take place on Twitter, so it's kind of a self-perpetuating situation. The entire reason I signed up for a Twitter account, after something like 5 years of refusing to do so, was that I asked for some clarification on a post to Full Disclosure, and was told something to the effect of "this has already been discussed at length on Twitter". I had done a bunch of web searches already, and none of them had turned up the thread they linked to, but they were right. I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Twitter, but because of that situation, I discovered a lot of other discussions in other fields that I wouldn't have seen otherwise, so it seems like a net positive.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> What does twitter offer that other platforms don't? Its audience.

teawrecks 5y ago
Twitter has made it too annoying to use their site without an account. I'm no longer part of that audience.
- dylan604 5y ago
  I'm sure Twitter sheds a tear for you and I not being there, but laugh all the way to the bank for the millions that are.
- eli 5y ago
  Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded

haswell 5y ago

> What does twitter offer that other platforms, designed for this type of content, don't? Wide reach, and ongoing engagement/discussion. I read threads like this because the follow-on discussion is often just as or more interesting than the thread itself. I think a blog post is also a good option here, but most blogs aren’t well suited for having a discussion.

matthewdgreen 5y ago
Here’s the blog post I wrote in 2015, if you prefer. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-juniper-backdoor/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-junip...

user-the-name 5y ago

Readers.

blincoln 5y ago

There are a lot of information security discussions that only take place on Twitter, so it's kind of a self-perpetuating situation. The entire reason I signed up for a Twitter account, after something like 5 years of refusing to do so, was that I asked for some clarification on a post to Full Disclosure, and was told something to the effect of "this has already been discussed at length on Twitter". I had done a bunch of web searches already, and none of them had turned up the thread they linked to, but they were right. I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Twitter, but because of that situation, I discovered a lot of other discussions in other fields that I wouldn't have seen otherwise, so it seems like a net positive.