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Twitter is pure hell and most people only use it because they’re addicted to being online.
by ryanSrich 4y ago
Twitter is pure hell and most people only use it because they’re addicted to being online.
- seti0Cha 4y agoIt would be better were that true. But sadly, there's are hair-think veins of incredibly useful discussion happening there as well. I have tried in the past to construct in Twitter a timeline that showed me just the very informative or thoughtful comments but it always ends the same way - my worst interests gratified, my better ones unsated.
- pasquinelli 4y agoi think you're just describing addiction. there's always some elusive "value" that you're chasing. i don't know about twitter, i've never used it, but i find it hard to believe there's anything "incredibly useful" on there. interesting, i could see, but useful?
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- PebblesRox 4y agoI've had pretty good success with Twitter. I am careful to limit my followers to avoid cluttering up my feed with stuff I don't want to see. I mostly follow the math teacher/early education crowd and regularly get inspired with fun math games and other activities to do with my kids. Plus I've gotten a lot of neat books from the library after seeing someone mention them on Twitter. So for me it's been a good signal-to-noise ratio, unlike e.g. Reddit where I can definitely relate to that elusive value-chasing you describe. Even on HN, the amount of relevant stuff I learn is low compared to the sheer amount of time I've spent here over the years.
- bolanyo 4y agoI love Twitter. But I immediately thought of Twitter as a counterexample when I read vagabund's claim.
- stiltzkin 4y agoIs hell if you do not know how to use it, same applies to other social media as Reddit.