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| From | Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs |
| Date | 2014-03-31 17:55 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <j8jo0b-pn.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> (permalink) |
| References | <20140331163428.696265a9.rsw@therandymon.com> |
On 31/03/14 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/ Yep. Tweets are too short (who cares about SMS). Anything worth say will be lost in the noise. You can't build sophisticated filters to direct useful stuff to your eyes. Retweets as a concept are totally broken - specifically - yes, retweet to your followers - but the fact that about 90% of any stream is just the same factoid retweeted often without any additional content is just bloody annoying. Twitter has some niche uses - mostly when something extraordinary happens, eg disaster, infrastructure problem or revolution. The rest of the time it's just a load of old bollocks :)
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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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