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- Jul 8, 2015
I am not sure if social justice is really the downfall of Twitter, apart from people that watch SJW antics I never heard any form of outrage about that kind of topic. Most people will just unfollow a person that spills some ideology or nonsense they don't want to see in their timeline.
Twitters problem is more systemic. It is in itself the "signal boosting" tool. Most of the things in my timeline are people that want to advertise something they created, something they deem worth sharing, just tweet random thoughts or add another hashtag to some cause or current event. The thing is, that Twitter isn't more than just that and probably will never be, but that is also the reason why the media eats it up like hot pockets. Where else can you get reactions from people all over the world, already bundled down to 140 characters with one thumb up your ass?
You can't post anything of value or depth onto Twitter. You can't formulate arguments unless you split them up into multiple tweets and if you do so, people will probably get annoyed that you spam their timeline. With its 140 character limit it is a medium for quick, fleeting comments on whatever is happening 'right now' and nothing more than that. Most tweets will be read by only a few people, before they drown in the stream of blah, and once a tweet is 'gone' it just takes too long to dig it up again.
Even the most popular tweets only have a half-life measured in hours and you are likely to miss even those, if you don't check your Twitter every other minute. The thing is, that while facebook works on it's own, Twitter doesn't, twitter is a medium you use while doing something else or when you want to comment on something. It is rather similar to an MMO in my opinion, either you go all hardcore and Tweet all day long, or you just have it running on the side, not paying that much attention to it. It seems to be nigh impossible to change twitter at the core without pulling it out of the niece it occupies. Every media outlet incorporates Twitter these days, so they already have more advertising than anyone else could hope for. So I don't think that lifting that character limit would do any good.
The only thing Twitter could do is add something new to the mix, while keeping the rest, but that doesn't seem to be easy. In short: Twitter is a victim of the short attention span it generates.
Twitters problem is more systemic. It is in itself the "signal boosting" tool. Most of the things in my timeline are people that want to advertise something they created, something they deem worth sharing, just tweet random thoughts or add another hashtag to some cause or current event. The thing is, that Twitter isn't more than just that and probably will never be, but that is also the reason why the media eats it up like hot pockets. Where else can you get reactions from people all over the world, already bundled down to 140 characters with one thumb up your ass?
You can't post anything of value or depth onto Twitter. You can't formulate arguments unless you split them up into multiple tweets and if you do so, people will probably get annoyed that you spam their timeline. With its 140 character limit it is a medium for quick, fleeting comments on whatever is happening 'right now' and nothing more than that. Most tweets will be read by only a few people, before they drown in the stream of blah, and once a tweet is 'gone' it just takes too long to dig it up again.
Even the most popular tweets only have a half-life measured in hours and you are likely to miss even those, if you don't check your Twitter every other minute. The thing is, that while facebook works on it's own, Twitter doesn't, twitter is a medium you use while doing something else or when you want to comment on something. It is rather similar to an MMO in my opinion, either you go all hardcore and Tweet all day long, or you just have it running on the side, not paying that much attention to it. It seems to be nigh impossible to change twitter at the core without pulling it out of the niece it occupies. Every media outlet incorporates Twitter these days, so they already have more advertising than anyone else could hope for. So I don't think that lifting that character limit would do any good.
The only thing Twitter could do is add something new to the mix, while keeping the rest, but that doesn't seem to be easy. In short: Twitter is a victim of the short attention span it generates.
Why are you working on an iPad Pro? When did the iPad become a tool for serious game design?
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