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Every new "feature" makes the site worse.
Right but like some insane percentage of twitter "users" are bots anyways.
Disagree as long as you can curate a community for yourself. I have like 530~ followers but I still use it every day.
And Twitter gave us dril, the comedic voice of this generation
...who?
It's no wonder, it's become so toxic people must be leaving in droves
...who?
How do people not use twitter but are on OT gaf?
Like everything people post is usually like at least an hour behind twitter.
Also news breaks on twitter, so I doubt it will go away.
I'm more surprised by the fact that people are still using Facebook. That thing is absolutely pointless if you don't have any friends. But Twitter can be a good source of news and sometimes meeting new people.
Twitter is not a good product at all.
Discovery features are bad so you're almost never going to have an interaction with a stranger unless it's a sociopath who uses it 20 hours a day to yell at people they disagree with. Lack of features to stop abuse means active users have the opposite problem where they have to face a torrent of shit. Celebrities checked out a long time ago so now most famous people have stage-managed accounts. It's really just journalists and comedians actually using it. The UX is terrible (I especially love all the shit they force down your throat and you can't turn off, "Show less of this" doesn't do fucking anything). No privacy granularity at all. Media features are garbage. Embedded images and videos are not very performant. Customer support could one day be something useful on Twitter, but most companies just have "@Soandso Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, DM us for more info" -> DM them -> "We'd be happy to help you with this, please call our customer service line M-F 9-5". If they had a more flexible bot specification they'd be a better platform for this. Oh, and speaking of bot specifications, their API is pretty bad and not useful for researchers, who otherwise would be the greatest evangelists of Twitter. Conversations are impossible because the threading interface is dreadful. If you have privacy turned on then there's no way to suppress follow requests without blocking someone. The onboarding process sucks. The spam problem is out of control, both in terms of sex-bot accounts, russian political accounts, and just blog spam. I think most of the people I know who have Twitter accounts use them for contest signup garbage.
It's hard to think of something Twitter does that it's actually good at.
How do people not use twitter but are on OT gaf?
Like everything people post is usually like at least an hour behind twitter.
Also news breaks on twitter, so I doubt it will go away.
Why would anyone need to use Twitter because they come here?How do people not use twitter but are on OT gaf?
Like everything people post is usually like at least an hour behind twitter.
Also news breaks on twitter, so I doubt it will go away.
uhhh no not quite
I'm well aware of how net gaining works, it's still an issue if the people joining are just barely replacing the ones who leftIf the net gain is zero then we could use your statement to assume people are also joining in droves.
Twitter is not a good product at all.
Discovery features are bad so you're almost never going to have an interaction with a stranger unless it's a sociopath who uses it 20 hours a day to yell at people they disagree with. Lack of features to stop abuse means active users have the opposite problem where they have to face a torrent of shit. Celebrities checked out a long time ago so now most famous people have stage-managed accounts. It's really just journalists and comedians actually using it. The UX is terrible (I especially love all the shit they force down your throat and you can't turn off, "Show less of this" doesn't do fucking anything). No privacy granularity at all. Media features are garbage. Embedded images and videos are not very performant. Customer support could one day be something useful on Twitter, but most companies just have "@Soandso Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, DM us for more info" -> DM them -> "We'd be happy to help you with this, please call our customer service line M-F 9-5". If they had a more flexible bot specification they'd be a better platform for this. Oh, and speaking of bot specifications, their API is pretty bad and not useful for researchers, who otherwise would be the greatest evangelists of Twitter. Conversations are impossible because the threading interface is dreadful. If you have privacy turned on then there's no way to suppress follow requests without blocking someone. The onboarding process sucks. The spam problem is out of control, both in terms of sex-bot accounts, russian political accounts, and just blog spam. I think most of the people I know who have Twitter accounts use them for contest signup garbage.
It's hard to think of something Twitter does that it's actually good at.
It's a garbage platform only used by stans and celebrities these days. What's the appeal?
If you are into collecting things or purchasing limited-run items that sell out quickly, or hearing from particular people, groups, or companies in a timely manner, Twitter is by far the best platform.
There is literally nothing better for getting news and up to the minute announcements, it's not a "garbage platform" at all. Everyone in here saying it is just doesn't know how to use it.
Discord or Slack would be a much better service for sneaker drops or Mondo posters or whatever. It may be the case that there's not a critical mass on those services within those communities, but if that critical mass did move, the software would be a lot better for a number of reasons.
*Wario64 posts about a special edition for an obscure game being available for 30 seconds on a site nobody's ever heard of*
*posts again 3 seconds later*
*posts again 3 seconds later*
*I turn off notifications*
This is a good post.Twitter is marketers talking to marketers about marketing
I love how the article opens up by saying Twitter attracted no new users. Then halfway down, it said it attracted 1 million new users 'internationally'.
So it attracted 1 million new users then. Why is America SO self obsessed to the point articles can be written talking only about America without any 'in America' caveats in the sentence.
As a non American it's at best confusing to read an article which appears to talk about the whole company which is later revealed to be just the US part, and at worst very irritating.