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Twitter played well in the impulse control game and unfortunately won over many people. Crafting a blog post takes way more effort compared to a rant like loose
by tiborsaas 5y ago
Twitter played well in the impulse control game and unfortunately won over many people. Crafting a blog post takes way more effort compared to a rant like loosely connected stream of tweets.
- mh_ 5y agoI wrote this about 13 years ago (a little tongue in cheek) but it held up: https://sensepost.com/blog/2009/twitter-killed-the-infosec-blogging-star/ https://sensepost.com/blog/2009/twitter-killed-the-infosec-b... -snip- There’s something liberating about saying “here’s a link”, as opposed to taking the time to formulate your thoughts into a full blown posting. We were curious if this twitter-effect was real, imaginary or only applicable to lazy people like us.. Thanks to python-twitter and a few lines of script we can look at the the blogging habits of some info-sec superstars (and maybe confuse correlation and causation to jump to conclusions while we at it). -snip-