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I really don't appreciate this kind of sarcasm on HN. And your sarcasm, quite frankly, I don't get. I get asked a lot what makes Twitter useful. So I wrote up

I really don't appreciate this kind of sarcasm on HN. And your sarcasm, quite frankly, I don't get. I get asked a lot what makes Twitter useful. So I wrote up the specific uses wherein I find it helpful. (Oh, and btw, you'll find more useful tweets at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=duckduckgo http://search.twitter.com/search?q=duckduckgo )

rarestnews 18y ago
So how being corrected for writing what you doing is useful to you? Or feeling of being more connected - is that useful? Or repeating your FaceBook status - is that useful? Or spreading links, which you admit to be not working because of not enough followers?
- epi0Bauqu 18y ago
  If you knew me, you'd know I don't waste my time writing stuff I don't believe in. I don't blog very often. So yes, I obviously find all of those cases useful, and again, I frankly don't understand why you don't see their usefulness. > So how being corrected for writing what you doing is useful to you? In the specific example, it saved me hours of time. > Or feeling of being more connected - is that useful? Absolutely. It makes me happier and more productive. > Or repeating your FaceBook status - is that useful? Absolutely. For the same reason Facebook status' are useful! > Or spreading links, which you admit to be not working because of not enough followers? That's not what I said. I said you need a lot of followers to make is useful, and I have about just enough for it to be: "I don't really have that many, but with the amount I do have it is enough..."
  - rarestnews 18y ago
    Keep it up, good work!
    - epi0Bauqu 18y ago
      Is that more sarcasm? Seriously, I can't tell.
      - rarestnews 18y ago
        Neither sarcasm, nor direct statement. Just a way to stop argument that would lead us both nowhere. We have different beliefs. I'm not planning of convincing you to my point-of-view (it would pretty much be impossible and also useless for me, I'm not running a religion) and your arguments don't convince me.
        epi0Bauqu 18y ago
        Convince you of what? That I don't believe myself that I find Twitter useful in those cases?
        rarestnews 18y ago
        I'm posting this only cause you asked, not to start flame war. Like I said don't want to convince you to my opinion (and it would be impossible). ...convince me that Twitter is more useful than harmful (especially to your time and self-assessment), I'd rather have 1 real-life friend and 1 real-life enemy tell me their opinion about my startup, than any sampling of random 1000 Twitter followers. I might prefer opinion of HN readers (smart guys here), but not the ranks of people reading Kutcher's tweets or things like fart-tweeting chairs. I tried reading the smartest folks, but even they struggle to tell some coherent thought in 140 chars. Then it turns out, those guys aren't really there, but rather ghostwriters. And Shaq. Who as great basketball player as he is - isn't exactly the mastermind. So, who else are Twitting? Oprah. Give me a break. Twittering is just another way to passively entertain yourself, like TV. Just like TV remote - you have to press a few buttons occasionally and show goes on - a lot of fluff-fluff-fluff, then maybe something useful and then again 59 minutes 45 seconds of fluff. Hardly worth spending hour to go through fluff (commercials in TV case or what your "follower" ate for breakfast or who he's in petty war against who to reach 1M followers in case of Twitter). It's just not worth the time spent. In my opinion - if you want opinion on your startup.. Add UserVoice. Do you want to promote it? Buy ads or do some smart marketing that doesn't require money. Using Twitter you're just following the herd which spends 99% of their time on useless reading of other peoples... let's call them.. thoughts.. or Re-Thhooughts in many cases. Once again I remind you that this is my BELIEF and I couldn't convince you of that and you won't convince me of opposite using arguments you presented. So, let's just move our own ways.
vorador 18y ago
I really don't appreciate this kind of post on hn. Do you think there haven't been enough submissions about twitter ? And besides, I've always found rude submitting links to his own blog.
- epi0Bauqu 18y ago
  Wow, HN has indeed changed. I thought it would be interesting to the community. Sorry. I'm basing that on previous stories and questions like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182755 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182755
  - vorador 18y ago
    According to searchyc.com, sixteen twitter-related links were submitted since yesterday. This is really too much, and besides, 90 % of the links say the same thing. You should consider that before posting or maybe delay your posting.

rarestnews 18y ago

So how being corrected for writing what you doing is useful to you? Or feeling of being more connected - is that useful? Or repeating your FaceBook status - is that useful? Or spreading links, which you admit to be not working because of not enough followers?

epi0Bauqu 18y ago
If you knew me, you'd know I don't waste my time writing stuff I don't believe in. I don't blog very often. So yes, I obviously find all of those cases useful, and again, I frankly don't understand why you don't see their usefulness. > So how being corrected for writing what you doing is useful to you? In the specific example, it saved me hours of time. > Or feeling of being more connected - is that useful? Absolutely. It makes me happier and more productive. > Or repeating your FaceBook status - is that useful? Absolutely. For the same reason Facebook status' are useful! > Or spreading links, which you admit to be not working because of not enough followers? That's not what I said. I said you need a lot of followers to make is useful, and I have about just enough for it to be: "I don't really have that many, but with the amount I do have it is enough..."
- rarestnews 18y ago
  Keep it up, good work!
  - epi0Bauqu 18y ago
    Is that more sarcasm? Seriously, I can't tell.
    - rarestnews 18y ago
      Neither sarcasm, nor direct statement. Just a way to stop argument that would lead us both nowhere. We have different beliefs. I'm not planning of convincing you to my point-of-view (it would pretty much be impossible and also useless for me, I'm not running a religion) and your arguments don't convince me.
      - epi0Bauqu 18y ago
        Convince you of what? That I don't believe myself that I find Twitter useful in those cases?
        rarestnews 18y ago
        I'm posting this only cause you asked, not to start flame war. Like I said don't want to convince you to my opinion (and it would be impossible). ...convince me that Twitter is more useful than harmful (especially to your time and self-assessment), I'd rather have 1 real-life friend and 1 real-life enemy tell me their opinion about my startup, than any sampling of random 1000 Twitter followers. I might prefer opinion of HN readers (smart guys here), but not the ranks of people reading Kutcher's tweets or things like fart-tweeting chairs. I tried reading the smartest folks, but even they struggle to tell some coherent thought in 140 chars. Then it turns out, those guys aren't really there, but rather ghostwriters. And Shaq. Who as great basketball player as he is - isn't exactly the mastermind. So, who else are Twitting? Oprah. Give me a break. Twittering is just another way to passively entertain yourself, like TV. Just like TV remote - you have to press a few buttons occasionally and show goes on - a lot of fluff-fluff-fluff, then maybe something useful and then again 59 minutes 45 seconds of fluff. Hardly worth spending hour to go through fluff (commercials in TV case or what your "follower" ate for breakfast or who he's in petty war against who to reach 1M followers in case of Twitter). It's just not worth the time spent. In my opinion - if you want opinion on your startup.. Add UserVoice. Do you want to promote it? Buy ads or do some smart marketing that doesn't require money. Using Twitter you're just following the herd which spends 99% of their time on useless reading of other peoples... let's call them.. thoughts.. or Re-Thhooughts in many cases. Once again I remind you that this is my BELIEF and I couldn't convince you of that and you won't convince me of opposite using arguments you presented. So, let's just move our own ways.

vorador 18y ago

I really don't appreciate this kind of post on hn. Do you think there haven't been enough submissions about twitter ? And besides, I've always found rude submitting links to his own blog.

epi0Bauqu 18y ago
Wow, HN has indeed changed. I thought it would be interesting to the community. Sorry. I'm basing that on previous stories and questions like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182755 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182755
- vorador 18y ago
  According to searchyc.com, sixteen twitter-related links were submitted since yesterday. This is really too much, and besides, 90 % of the links say the same thing. You should consider that before posting or maybe delay your posting.