Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

Re:Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO,... by ThomPete on Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:37PM (#10095395)

Twitters main problem is that it's a protocol more than an actual content platform. What they need is to get more content onto their platform and the only way to really do that is to allow for richers posts which means loose the 140 character limit.

I know a lot of people will say "but thats what so great about twitter" and I would claim that it isn't, they just think it is. The short tweets and the asyncronous character of twitter creates quite a lot of noise and so you are actually reading way way more than interesting 140 character tweets you also read a lot of noise and redundancy.

No whats really great about twitter is that it's more centerede around interests than friendship and that this provide the actual value of using the service.

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Re:Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO,... by benwoodward on Thursday August 20, 2015 @10:45PM (#10095722)

Totally agree. I stopped using Twitter because I got so tired of rewording everything to fit into 140 characters. The most interesting people on Twitter tend to use multiple tweets to broadcast one message, and join them up with "...", but when I see that I'd rather they had just written a short blog post and linked it.

In my opinion, what Twitter is most useful for is sharing links and short updates to prompt action from your followers, like reading your new blog post. And because of this, it's not the kind of place where you want to spend a lot of time, because the content isn't that engaging, it's just the news ticker that you scroll through for 5 minutes and leave.

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