Posted on 10/19/2015 12:41:25 PM PDT by MNDude
It’s early fall, and I’m at my favorite cafe in London. What the? Twitter’s a cemetery. Populated by ghosts. I call them the “ists”. Journalists retweeting journalists…activists retweeting activists…economists retweeting economists…once in a while a great war breaks out between this group of “ists” and that…but the thing is: no one’s listening…because everyone else seems to have left in a hurry.
. Abuse is killing the social web, and hence it isn’t peripheral to internet business models — it’s central. It has significant chilling effects: given a tipping point, people will simply stop using a network, and walk away…and that appears to be what’s happening with Twitter. Abuse is just as central to tech that connects people as selling beef that isn’t contaminated with salmonella is to an industry that feeds people. For the simple fact is that no one wants to spend their life being shouted at by people they’ll never meet who are angry not at them but at the world for things they barely even said to people they barely even know.
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I whoopdidoo’ed but that was back in my drinking days so I won’t give details here for fear of getting banned.
What’s killing Twitter is the abuse by media outlets and bloggers to Tweet messages that are nothing more than a link to some article.
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Blog Pimps know no bounds....
I’m between a rock and hard place. My boycott of Facebook requires me to use Twitter to share my website and activities. Just hoping Facebook flops first.
In any case, I was invited to appear on a local news show solely because I was on Twitter with a following. (I know this because I asked them after the segment)
Facebook Common stock price is now at $98.49 per share, or $9849, plus commision charges for a Round Lot.
If I happened to have $10K burning a hole in my pocket, I would buy it. Make hay while the sun shines, don’t you know.
You’re right. eventually, this stock price will either go down and stay that way, or the common may become Preferred, which will lessen the total amount available at one time.
Sometimes a hot stock will stabilize over time, after the novelty wears off.
I recall Disney stock used to be about $42. back in 1990.
It is now $109.47. Not a huge difference, considering the total value of this organization.
Tried Twitter, it wasn’t for me. After a month of being inactive, I got a couple notices of somebody trying to crack my password, so I changed it. It happened again, so I just deactivated and deleted. A pain in the arse.
I don’t know.
The “over share” generation is going to find out that things on the net never go away.
I like FR exactly the way it is today. It’s not broke, so don’t ‘fix’ it. The only reason I can see any big change in FR being considered, is that allowing advertising will bring in more revenue. I would understand this. I would still support FR. I hear it’s very expensive to establish and maintain sites like this one.
I’ve always been Twitter Free
Wow, I’ve always viewed Twitter as the domain as bitter journalists.
I've been using "social media" since the days of BBSs run on home computers using one-at-a-time dialup a 300bps (not "Kbps", not "Mbps" ... "bps"). I've used FTP, gopher, USENET (when you could literally read EVERY message posted on all forums), AOL, CompuServe, WWW on Mosaic, and plenty of forums up thru MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and on. Somewhere around 30 years of social media observations.
They ALL have finite lifespans. All of them. Whenever I point this out, someone says "oh, but THIS one is different!" No it's not. Those have died off too. And now...Twitter is getting reports of its demise.
Every signifiant forum appears as a fresh new face, a new way of interacting, with users piling on because it's fresh and new and interesting people are using it and it's cool to hang out there ... until EVERYONE is hanging out there, the signal-to-noise ratio plummets, antagonistic fights are the norm, and the interesting people go somewhere else new & largely unknown they can go to be interesting, leaving the bottom to fall out as everyone holding it up rapidly vacates the premises. Cycle repeats. And now, Twitter: interesting people starting to leave because it's overwhelmed by twits tweeting terribly.
Instagram and others are filling the gap, but I'm not sure they're going to have quite the explosive dominance. Something new will show up, Twitter will evaporate from being an authoritative news source for reporters, Facebook will stall, and... off to the next big thing.
Twitter is mainly a GOSSIP site. It’s for people to snipe at each other .. to make others envious of our lives .. to tell secrets that have no business being revealed.
I’ve never been on Twitter or Facebook .. and I still don’t see any reason to start now.
I like Twitter but give people two chances to act civil then block. I love to block morons.
Yes, FB has gotten horrible in last 2 years with clutter.
Interesting...can you give me your thoughts on Facebook for business?
Facebook has replaced the traditional Company Web page, for starters.
But Twitter at least has a core value. The ability for a public figure to get his/her message out and circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional media. Donald Trump is one who uses the medium very wisely. It's also a way for a private citizen to break a news story that can quickly be re-tweeted to millions of people.
Problem with Twitter is that there are too many nobodies cluttering up Twitter feeds with useless crap. Early on, I made the mistake of following friends and co-workers on Twitter. I'd get a constant stream of what they were having for dinner or how they hated the recent episode of South Park.
Now I just follow things that I'm interested in and I quickly unfollow people who spam their feeds with nonsense.
What’s Twitter and what is its value to our civilization?
Are business transactions being conducted via Facebook?
Remember the site Digg.com?
Same thing happened to them. I used to be a poster, but eventually, it became unusable. If you weren’t a site homer, you couldn’t even get an article on the first page without getting downvoted into oblivion. And if you held certain points of view, forget it.
After a while, it became not worth the effort. I’m glad it is a shell of its former self.
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