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I know I said I was done, but, you know... someone is wrong on the internet. You seem to be of the opinion that Twitter's purpose is to "post short messages".
by calambrac 18y ago
I know I said I was done, but, you know... someone is wrong on the internet.
You seem to be of the opinion that Twitter's purpose is to "post short messages".
Um, yes. Because it is. And yes, that's why people use Twitter, along with the fact that a bunch of other people use Twitter (which would go away if they shut their doors, wouldn't it? So that bit's kind of irrelevant in the context of this imaginary scenario).
Also: You agree with this, go back to the part of this thread where you said "Twitter provides a very simple way to pass along messages."
Now I'm done, for realz.
- unalone 18y agoPass along being the key phrase. You don't use Twitter because it lets you post messages. You use it because the site is a giant infrastructure that is designed to pass the things you write along to other people, both through following and through replying. The actual system of posting messages is comparatively irrelevant: there were microblogging sites before Twitter, but they didn't focus on following other people, so they were forgotten.