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Imagine this. I spread out my arms wide apart. My left palm represents reality. My right palm represents the dimension where the author of this article currentl
by maxklein 17y ago
Imagine this. I spread out my arms wide apart. My left palm represents reality. My right palm represents the dimension where the author of this article currently exists, but to get from left to right palm, you have to go one time around the globe.
This article is so far from reality, it's stupid. The data point is a single anectdotal one. There is no info on the data. There is no hint at all that twitter had anything to do with the decline - it could just as well have been birds pecking at the internet cables to all the subscribers houses and disrupting exactly those packets.
Totally biased in-the-bubble speculation, this blog post is not even wrong, it's just silly.
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- edw519 17y agoEvery once in a while, I look at the comments before the original article, just to see how I'd like to proceed. I'm not going to read this article because no matter how good or bad it is, it can't possibly be more entertaining than maxklein's assessment. I wish I could just hit an F key to post this review whereever I wanted, replacing "twitter had anything to do with the decline" with some context sensitive text.
- access_denied 17y agoMany of us do it like that, thanks for spelling ist out. We are a crowd, here on HN.
- mattyfo 17y agoI couldn't agree more entirely. Some 97% of internet users use email on a daily basis while only some small bubble of a demographic use twitter.
- hooande 17y agoComments like this are why I love news.yc
- maukdaddy 17y agoExcellent analogy maxklein. In fact, you should be able to copy/paste this for over 90% of the "x is dead" or "y is the x-killer" blog postings.