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Cannot agree, at all. Anecdotal evidence only, but I find myself using twitter less and less. If anything, what I'm using it for these days is to follow someone

Cannot agree, at all. Anecdotal evidence only, but I find myself using twitter less and less. If anything, what I'm using it for these days is to follow someone interesting (like a developer on a project I like, or, since I'm also into Olympic lifting, those types of people) and see if they tweet anything. So, I lurk and follow. Rarely do I engage anymore. And they are never conversations since 1. twitter absolutely SUCKS as a communication platform (can't see what people reply to a person, can't see what people say about a subject...no way to aggregate the information etc) and 2. twitter still, to this day, drops tweets. #2 fathoms me. As an experiment I followed the exact same people from two different twitter accounts. Using twitter.com for both, I had remarkably different streams. This is just awful. Even so it seems that most of Twitter is marketing these days. Spam upon spam upon spam followers and replies. And most everyone is selling something and tweeting about it. It gets very, very tiring. Twitter isn't really interesting to me anymore. Not sure if it will be in the future, but I don't see myself using it much in the near term.

andreasklinger 15y ago
I completely agree. Twitter made social conversations worse and the timeline became more and more useless. This is why twitter was for me the permanent second. But i strongly believe that this is only one part of their future. Therefore the post.
adriand 15y ago
A colleague described Twitter as "marketing people yelling at other marketing people". I see his point, but I find that in my local community, Twitter serves a purpose. There are frequent conversations between local individuals interested in urban renewal in my city, which often include city councillors, officials in various capacities, journalists, and so on. So this is interesting and quite valuable. But there's no question there's a huge amount of noise. And I question whether anyone who follows more than 300 or 400 people is actually reading much at all in their stream.
MatthewPhillips 15y ago
I agree. I was an addict 2 years ago, a frequest user a year ago, and now rarely check my stream, and never post anything. For me personally, I'm kind of over social networks entirely. I don't find them interesting any more. I'm hoping to see a revival in personal home pages, where you can share your thoughts in a place that you own and control. We just need the mechanic that makes it dead simple for others to consume the content (Wordpress is not it).
- untog 15y ago
  I'm hoping to see a revival in personal home pages, where you can share your thoughts in a place that you own and control. To an extent, I think Tumblr fills that role. I post photo albums (which it handles well) and long text posts (which it doesn't) to my Tumblr, and people can 'like' them, comment and so on. The concept of 'reblogging' doesn't fit in with that though.

andreasklinger 15y ago

I completely agree. Twitter made social conversations worse and the timeline became more and more useless. This is why twitter was for me the permanent second. But i strongly believe that this is only one part of their future. Therefore the post.

adriand 15y ago

A colleague described Twitter as "marketing people yelling at other marketing people". I see his point, but I find that in my local community, Twitter serves a purpose. There are frequent conversations between local individuals interested in urban renewal in my city, which often include city councillors, officials in various capacities, journalists, and so on. So this is interesting and quite valuable. But there's no question there's a huge amount of noise. And I question whether anyone who follows more than 300 or 400 people is actually reading much at all in their stream.

MatthewPhillips 15y ago

I agree. I was an addict 2 years ago, a frequest user a year ago, and now rarely check my stream, and never post anything. For me personally, I'm kind of over social networks entirely. I don't find them interesting any more. I'm hoping to see a revival in personal home pages, where you can share your thoughts in a place that you own and control. We just need the mechanic that makes it dead simple for others to consume the content (Wordpress is not it).

untog 15y ago
I'm hoping to see a revival in personal home pages, where you can share your thoughts in a place that you own and control. To an extent, I think Tumblr fills that role. I post photo albums (which it handles well) and long text posts (which it doesn't) to my Tumblr, and people can 'like' them, comment and so on. The concept of 'reblogging' doesn't fit in with that though.