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Is there a good case for why someone who doesn't use twitter would create an account and use it now? Trying to figure out what organic growth for them looks lik
by motohagiography 5y ago
Is there a good case for why someone who doesn't use twitter would create an account and use it now? Trying to figure out what organic growth for them looks like.
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- pixelgeek 5y agoI tried to open an account a while back as there were a lot of coders on Twitter that I wanted to follow. I almost immediately shut the account down due to 1) the utterly broken search and 2) the sheer number of 'suggested' accounts or trends to follow. Even if you aren't concerned about issues that this account brings up it is a miserable user experience.
- teetertater 5y agoI opened an account 3 weeks ago and had pretty much the same experience. But.. then I unfollowed every verified account and topic, and it got much better. Once you find a few accounts you like it's easier to find more. Since then I've discovered many cool resources and been invited to niche dev communities. It's too early to say if it's worth it yet but I would say yes if I can grow to a few hundred followers. (At that point you have supported to boost product hunt launches, people to give feedback, amplify your support issues, etc)
- pixelgeek 5y agoI just found it to be a wall of noise. It didn't give me any sense that I had any control over what was going on.
- cblconfederate 5y agodespite all this, twitter is still the source where you can find "dissident" voices who speak for themselves. For example with the whole discussion wrt to vaccines, all other sources do some inane level of "censoring" which has no rhyme or reason. HN generally avoids the subject due to politics, reddit allows its $0/month moderators to do whatever the fuck they want, FB ewww i wont even go there, what's left? For me twitter is the only source where i can subscribe to people who aren't passionate, aren't constantly preaching, and aren't afraid to present their side of the story (they exist, you just have to find them by aggressive elimination)
- moralestapia 5y agoA few months ago I created an account for a website I have, followed a few accounts, tweeted once and was then banned for literally no reason. All of this happened in less than 24h. After that, I try to avoid Twitter when possible. It's also a cesspool of entitled pseudo-intellectuals (both left and right leaning), so I don't miss it much, honestly.
- motohagiography 5y agoMy view is always a bit alien, but I get the sense if you follow the wrong person out of curiosity you get banned, which takes on weird reputation risk in itself. It seems like a vice anyway. A strange game, the only way to win is to be like everyone else.
- cronix 5y agoI signed up and was immediately banned after following 3 different accounts in fairly rapid succession. I had already been "following" these accounts for some time by directly going to their twitter pages on the website and had them bookmarked, so I just went to each person directly from the bookmarks and hit "follow." This is apparently "Unusual activity." In order to prove I wasn't a bot and continue to use their service, they wanted my phone number (I signed up through the website and don't want the app on my phone). I really don't care about tweeting myself and it was just for the convenience factor of having the accounts all in a single place without having to go to different bookmarks each time, so it's not a big deal to not have an account. It's all publicly available, although they're trying to make it harder to navigate twitter unless you have an account and signed in.
- handrous 5y agoTwitter never doesn't decide it needs your phone number after a short while. Nothing you did or didn't do made that happen. At most you sped it up a couple days.
- raxxorrax 5y agoAsian and African markets probably. For western nations it becomes a containment platform like Tumblr has been until it destroyed itself.
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