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"Incredibly useful" would imply that if you told me about Twitter, I wouldn't believe you. As much as I wish it were otherwise, it's not that hard to believe t
by bithive123 14y ago
"Incredibly useful" would imply that if you told me about Twitter, I wouldn't believe you. As much as I wish it were otherwise, it's not that hard to believe that someone invented IRC over HTTP and gave it a silly name.
- jdminhbg 14y agoMany people, myself included, were skeptical of the value of Twitter until they used it. In that sense, we literally did not believe how useful Twitter was. Also, Twitter is almost nothing like IRC in any respect other than being an electronic communication medium.
- glhaynes 14y agoPeople don't expect "incredible" to mean "not credible" anymore.
- bithive123 14y agoThat's literally the most awesome thing I've read today, for all intensive purposes!
- gfosco 14y ago..... for all intents and purposes.
- bithive123 14y agoChrist, enough with the pedantry.
- marshray 14y agoIf it once was "credible" but no longer is, perhaps a more appropriate term is "uncredible" or "decredible". Of course, that woudl imply that the act of removing credibility from something would be "decrediblizaiton" or "decredencing".
- polyfractal 14y agoChrist, enough with the pedantry. I'm getting sick of all the pedants on HN critiquing idioms and common phrases. Did you understand what the GP meant? Yes. Did you need to point out to the world your complete mastery of the English language? No. The GP's point was that Twitter is useful, despite it's relatively low score on "innovative new technology" scale.
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