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On my machines twitter got blocked. That's what happened to twitter. At least for me. It's a terrible website. Character limit leads to terribly shallow discus
by kybernetyk 5y ago
On my machines twitter got blocked. That's what happened to twitter. At least for me.
It's a terrible website. Character limit leads to terribly shallow discussions that still need to be split into multiple posts. It's a dumb medium of exchange.
- toyg 5y agoYeah I've dropped it too. It's full of terrible people looking for excuses to abuse people, awful wannabe comedians making terrible jokes, and never-ending bitching. If FB and Instagram are where people go to show off, Twitter is where people go to moan, whine, and fight. No thanks.
- ltfey 5y agoAs bad as Twitter is, blogging is essentially dead. Wordpress's free product is garbage that now runs block ads, breaking the flow of content, and Substack is Y Combinator, which to a lot of people is a turn-off given the incubator's historical association with DVFs (domestic violence founders). Ultimately, the greatest danger to the written word is that, because it is so easily indexed, fascistic employers (pardon the redundancy) can, in a couple of seconds, search everything a target has ever written and find reasons either to reject him (after he has passed an interview) or reduce his offer on evidence of lower leverage. Social media is a fool's game. In ten years or so, the ultimate flex will be not to partcipate. Twitter somehow survives in spite of this, because (a) it is an unserious format, a fact that lends some plausible deniability, (b) a fraction of people--arguably perversely, but also arguably nobly--enjoy gambling with their reputations, and (c) there is a defeated, demoralized understanding among the young that, given the destruction of the middle-class labor market, not to play the social media game is just as dangerous (it suggests having something to hide) as to play it. So today's savvy young people might tweet a little bit but mostly lurk, or use alternate accounts to post anything that might get serious.
- gnyman 5y agoI find the character limit a interesting limitation, both negative and positive. On one hand, as you say, it's impossible to have a nuanced discussion in 280 chars. But on the other hand it forces (and allows) people to write interesting things in a very concise format. Should be noted though that I only interact with twitter trough Tweetbot and with a extremely curated follow list. And in this specific way I find it's a great way to keep up to date on industry specific news and learn about new things (by following people in other industries). It's far from perfect but I have not found any other way to keep up to date with the thoughts of people I look up to or find interesting. I had high hopes for micro-blogging but it has not caught on yet.