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I like to have my friends on Twitter so I can shoot them @ messages but as soon as the number of people I follow goes above around 100 the signal to noise ratio
by 0majors 14y ago
I like to have my friends on Twitter so I can shoot them @ messages but as soon as the number of people I follow goes above around 100 the signal to noise ratio turns me off. I don't have the time or the interest to read all of that to find couple of good tweets. I'm a light Twitter user due to this; I assume creating lists can help.
- jarek 14y agoIf only there were any other ways of messaging people on the internet
- jamesrcole 14y agoSo? Why do you even need the Internet? You could just SMS them? or why do you even need SMS? Why not just send them snail mail letters or see them in person? There are certain pros and cons -- differeing levels of convenience being one of them -- of every communications medium and your response completely ignores that.
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- jamesrcole 14y agoThe person was talking about @ mentions, not DMs. @ mentions have certain properties - it's a semi-open form of communication. Other friends who follow you both can see your communications. That can be handy If you and others prefer to communicate (for certain purposes) via twitter, and there's another person, X, that you'd like to also include in the communication... sure you can send them a message by some other means, but it'd be more convenient to be able to just include them as well. >The argument can be turned around - you could just follow people whose updates you don't care about on Twitter so they can message you As I said, the discussion was not about DMs, but anyway the original point was about how software might be changed to make things more convenient... you seem to be treating less-convenient compromises as the only option that should be considered.
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