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It promotes consice yet well-thought out statements.
by stephengillie 13y ago
It promotes consice yet well-thought out statements.
- coldtea 13y agoReally? Have you even been near twitter? It promotes slogan like ideas, contrained thinking, ADD, silly one-liners, and BS self-absorbed tibbits.
- qu4z-2 13y agoConcise implies both short and information-rich. In my experience with twitter, the former is certainly true but...
- saalweachter 13y agoLet's be honest: it gives authors permission to not write a lot. The thing that differentiates Twitter from its competitors isn't the well-thought-out-ness of the tweets, it's the volume. When you can't write more than 140 characters, you feel OK tweeting almost anything. And you do, and you do it a lot. A blogging platform is a drag because it feels like work to write a meaningful blog post. You start a dozen blog posts that you never publish because they don't feel finished. So you end up never blogging because you "don't have time for it". Twitter won because their 140 character limit encouraged constant, thoughtless posting, which allowed for an insane volume of tweets. And it turned out that volume is way, way more important for a social network than quality or thoughtfulness.
- MartinMcGirk 13y agoMost insightful comment I've read all day. I had never thought of it like that before, but it rings true and now Twitter's success makes perfect sense to me (at last). I'm now wondering how (if) you could tread the line between volume and quality such that you could create lots of content that avoided the "Had ketchup on toast for breakfast - #YOLO" kind of content.
- prostoalex 13y agoIn languages where verbs and adjectives are not superfluously extraneous.