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Really, can't understand why academia (or anyone frankly) chose Twitter as a means to do public communications. Character limit, poor access control capabilitie

by oytis 4y ago

Really, can't understand why academia (or anyone frankly) chose Twitter as a means to do public communications. Character limit, poor access control capabilities, actively blocking people without accounts from reading. Like, every aspect seems to be worse than vintage blogging platforms, apart from the fact that somehow everyone is on Twitter now.

danielvf 4y ago
Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value. Your new content appears in feeds in seconds. The small content size constraints allow readers to follow more people, making the network more connected.
- ghaff 4y ago
  >Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value. I question the value. Yes, there's discovery but nothing is keeping anyone from clicking through a link from a short summary. And, if people don't? Personally I'm OK with that. No one is paying me for eyeballs. Way too many people are obsessed with pageviews even if they don't get compensated for them.
- oytis 4y ago
  Yes, you're right, feed seems to be the major differentiator. RSS never really reached the same user experience.
denton-scratch 4y ago
> somehow everyone is on Twitter now. Well, you can't reach me through Twitter. I think the "everyone" you refer to is "everyone who thinks they're important". Lots of politicians, journalists, "celebrities" and academics. I tried to read the tweeter's opinions, but gave up after three sentences (3 tweets). That's a truly awful way to consume a reasoned argument.
- oytis 4y ago
  I think I'm mostly confused about academia really. I get it, it's a nice and easy format to quickly share one's thoughts, so masses are there. Now people who need to speak to the masses (celebrities, politicians) are also there. But academia should be different as I though. Post like this one seem to be rather belonging to a mailing list or a specialised blog or whatever good format that were invented on the internet. Instead it is composed as a series of linked SMS-sized messages on a walled-garden type of platform.
  - denton-scratch 4y ago
    > Post like this one seem to be rather belonging to a mailing list Couldn't agree more. I grieve the decline of mailing lists.
fomine3 4y ago
It's still better than Facebook and LinkedIn for login, because I can read a tweet without login at least. Show reply requires login but who cares garbages?

by oytis 4y ago

danielvf 4y ago

Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value. Your new content appears in feeds in seconds. The small content size constraints allow readers to follow more people, making the network more connected.

ghaff 4y ago
>Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value. I question the value. Yes, there's discovery but nothing is keeping anyone from clicking through a link from a short summary. And, if people don't? Personally I'm OK with that. No one is paying me for eyeballs. Way too many people are obsessed with pageviews even if they don't get compensated for them.
oytis 4y ago
Yes, you're right, feed seems to be the major differentiator. RSS never really reached the same user experience.

denton-scratch 4y ago

> somehow everyone is on Twitter now. Well, you can't reach me through Twitter. I think the "everyone" you refer to is "everyone who thinks they're important". Lots of politicians, journalists, "celebrities" and academics. I tried to read the tweeter's opinions, but gave up after three sentences (3 tweets). That's a truly awful way to consume a reasoned argument.

oytis 4y ago
I think I'm mostly confused about academia really. I get it, it's a nice and easy format to quickly share one's thoughts, so masses are there. Now people who need to speak to the masses (celebrities, politicians) are also there. But academia should be different as I though. Post like this one seem to be rather belonging to a mailing list or a specialised blog or whatever good format that were invented on the internet. Instead it is composed as a series of linked SMS-sized messages on a walled-garden type of platform.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  > Post like this one seem to be rather belonging to a mailing list Couldn't agree more. I grieve the decline of mailing lists.

fomine3 4y ago

It's still better than Facebook and LinkedIn for login, because I can read a tweet without login at least. Show reply requires login but who cares garbages?