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To me, Twitter is a guy in a crowd saying something. There will be followers nearby who presumably like what he says (or why are they there?). Then there are ot
by robthebrew 5y ago
To me, Twitter is a guy in a crowd saying something. There will be followers nearby who presumably like what he says (or why are they there?). Then there are others away from the followers who overhear the (potential crap) he says. They respond. Or not. It is like being in a crowded bar and walking past discussions: just snippets of text with zero context (by and large). It is "communication" for people without RL friends or who have zero interest in responses to their statements. It is the ultimate self-validation: you actually don't care about dialog, just monologue.
- rbinv 5y ago>It is the ultimate self-validation: you actually don't care about dialog, just monologue. Very true. Even Twitter replies are often like a "dialog" of monologues.
- spicybright 5y agoI've been looking for a good analogy for twitter, and this fits the bill almost perfectly. If I may add: As you walk around hearing people talk, everyone is getting a bit drunk, so their conversations sometimes get a bit out there and more extreme out of context. Also, the bar gives free drinks for people that get into arguments, so there's incentive to interject randomly into conversations with your own view point. And anyone that drinks socially knows drunken arguments aren't particularly productive most of the time.