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Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs

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On 2014-03-31, Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31/03/2014 17:34, RS Wood wrote:
>> Very interesting article over at the Atlantic:
>>
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/how-twitter-has-changed-over-the-years-in-12-charts/359869/
>>
> [...]
>>
>> The last bullet is obviously because they had trouble coming up with a
>> tenth, interesting point.  The others are interesting.  The switch to
>> retweets and the incessant hashtagging says to me Twitter as a
>> conversation platform has plateaued, probably because it's not great
>> for conversation unless you like short, choppy attacks.  It also says
>> to me a lot of people tried it for a while and then lost interest as
>> the novelty wore thin.

On the English/Spanish bit, in my part of the world German is used a lot.
This is useful to me as a vocabulary builder.

> I tried Twitter for a while back in 2009, but eventually dropped it 
> after 6 months because it was too much of a time-sink. I rejoined in 
> 2012, mainly to see if it had improved. About the only good thing I can 
> say about current Twitter is that you can cut down the noise level 
> greatly by turning off retweets from the most voluminous of those you 
> follow. (Or perhaps reevaluating why you're following them.) And where 
> you do find good conversation, it's a little easier to follow. But the 
> shortness of messages, and the sheer number of them, make trying to keep 
> up an impossible task. So I no longer bother - I'll just skim the last 
> few hours of Twitter in the morning and evening, and call it a day.

I started with Twitter in 2010 with the aim of not letting it become a time
sink by being selective.  Those I do follow generally have something to say
and more often than not include a link to an article of interest, but they
don't tweet every day - more like once or twice a month.

@climagic has some good Linux CLI one liners on a daily basis.  This one from
28th March introduced me to the pv utility:

curl -s http://artscene.textfiles\.com/vt100/globe.vt | pv -L9600 -q 
# Spinning ASCII art globe.

-- 
Paul Sture

"In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy
is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."

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The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 16:34 +0000
  Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-31 17:55 +0100
  Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> - 2014-03-31 21:25 +0100
    Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-01 00:32 +0200
  Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-02 09:05 +0000
    Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 21:51 +0000
      Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-04 10:20 +0000
        Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-05 07:29 +0000

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