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Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium

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On 15 Jul 2014 21:09:03 GMT
Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2014-07-15, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > So in a way, it [Twitter] works slightly more like usenet.  We toss messages out
> > there, and whether you read it depends upon whether you subscribe to
> > view the group the message is within.
> 
> Twitter's *exactly* like Usenet, except there's only one "group" - misc.misc.
> 
> Among the many ways it's shit is that it doesn't scale. Once you follow
> enough people, the Tweets arrive way faster than you can keep up, and unless
> you have a Twitter client that saves them(*), they vanish off the bottom of the
> list and are lost.
> 
> Yet another example of someone reinventing Usenet, badly.
> 
> (* I don't know if any do that. The two I use don't.)

Huge is right.  I use @dicthandbook to promote my book, and a couple
dozen people follow ole' "Dick Tater" and I follow a bunch of reporters
mostly, who are reporting from the field on what dictators are doing.

To me, it's an auditorium, in which everyone is saying "Hey, XX YY ZZ
Whatever" to nobody in particular, hoping somebody is listening.  Then
you've got a whole bunch of other people simply repeating that.  It's a
huge echo chamber.  Yes you can follow interestig people and if you get
the right ones it can be a good source of information.  But the amount
of noise in that echo chamber is deafening.  Not to mention the 140
character limitation makes it useful for short, pithy declarations but
pretty awful for meaningful conversation.  I know people like it, but I
truly don't get it.  It just seems like an awful medium for exchanging
information and its related ills - like URL shorteners - make the web
less safe.  I just can't figure out why people like it so much.   Maybe
because it gives you a steady stream of novelty on your smart phone -
i.e., it's mildly distracting.

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Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-12 17:39 +0000
  Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-07-12 20:15 +0000
    Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-07-13 00:05 +0100
      Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium G Skinner <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-13 21:40 +0000
        Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-07-14 04:21 -0500
          Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-15 20:51 +0100
            Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-07-15 21:00 +0000
              Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-07-15 21:09 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-17 12:46 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-07-17 14:33 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-07-17 16:06 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-07-17 13:55 -0400
              Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-15 23:59 +0100
              Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-07-16 11:32 -0500
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-07-16 18:02 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-16 19:29 +0100
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-07-17 07:17 -0500

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