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The problem with twitter is that it's 160 char limit is too short to be useful without an embedded link. That makes it useful for quick notes and as a pointer t
by coldcode 13y ago
The problem with twitter is that it's 160 char limit is too short to be useful without an embedded link. That makes it useful for quick notes and as a pointer to actual news but not getting news itself. Since twitter restricts apps from accessing tweets in commercial volume, the usage of tweets to generate "magazines" full of news that are easier to read doesn't happen.
I use it as a subscription mechanism for my blog in addition to rss. But not much more than that.
- rtpg 13y agoI actually follow a decent amount of journalists, and they comment a lot on things in a sort of "preview" of what I'll see in tomorrow's paper. For example, with the Iran negotiations, there was a lot of chatter about people entering the building, making comments, etc. It's not the news, but it's like a high-level form of gossip, and pretty real-time. Plus it's nice to be able to ask a person a question (there's a pretty high response rate when asking a writer something on twitter). Interesting side-note though : 160 chars in japanese ends up being pretty big content-wise, which is probably why a lot of japanese users don't mind using it as their main social network account.