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It's weird to admit, but ever since Twitter jumped the shark LinkedIn has become my main replacement. Closest thing to vaguely broad views and updates from peop
by fhd2 3y ago
It's weird to admit, but ever since Twitter jumped the shark LinkedIn has become my main replacement. Closest thing to vaguely broad views and updates from people most of which I know to some degree.
It _is_ cringe, but not the stuff my "network" writes, and not really based on writing style, for the most part. It's mostly just the sponsored and boosted stuff. That also wasn't my favourite content on Twitter.
If X tries to become LinkedIn, it sounds like their major opportunity is to become the worst of both worlds. And what Elon thought was "cool" in the past was, at least in my opinion, mostly not.
- chewmieser 3y agoBloomberg wrote an article on this recently: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-22/instagram-twitter-and-tiktok-upheavals-are-helping-linkedin#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-22/instagram...
- Spooky23 3y agoI'm humbled to hear that you have announced the LinkedIn has replaced Twitter as your firehose of nonsense. That is a significant shift that realigns your media consumption with strategic goals.
- fhd2 3y agoThank you, it's great to get positive feedback after investing so much energy. Reach out to me if you need help with your sales strategy!
- orzig 3y agoYeah, me too. It's boring, but after the last decade I'm more than willing to accept that "cost" for the benefit of having a sense of what's going on with my contacts. Does anyone know how to efficiently unfollow large numbers of people though? I was way to promiscuous in the early days and want to winnow down to someone I've actually worked/socialized with.
- imbnwa 3y ago>If X tries to become LinkedIn, it sounds like their major opportunity is to become the worst of both worlds. And what Elon thought was "cool" in the past was, at least in my opinion, mostly not. Wouldn't the impact largely be on how people looking for jobs on X would have to clean up their profiles/history?
- fhd2 3y agoNot sure. I rather envision lots of thinly veiled self promotion and bad con-artistry with a "cool" tone spamming all kinds of threads. At least with LinkedIn I know to run for the hills based on post length and the first sentence, I feel on Twitter, or X or whatever, that kind of stuff would be more of a sucker punch.
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