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Re:Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool by prawn on Friday October 23, 2015 @03:27AM (#10437296)
Doubt he's the only one who can see it. It's written up in many stories and most people using Twitter can see how much of a graveyard it can become at times. (It's the social network I use most, so I'd rather that weren't the case.)

This could be purely a move about PR and legacy. In recent times we've seen Yahoo and then Microsoft make expensive moves in an attempt to gain relevance.

I'm not sure it'd be the rank and file employees who hold Twitter back, but anyone steering it?

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Re:Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool by wingerlang on Friday October 23, 2015 @03:34AM (#10437319)
> .. how much of a graveyard it can become at times

Could you expand on this? I don't use Twitter enough to know the subtleties of it.

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Re:Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool by ponyous on Friday October 23, 2015 @04:54AM (#10437520)
For me it feels like graveyard when I search for a hashtag that interest me and all I see are promotions and links to other pages. I want to see actual discussions among people like me so I can participate.

Note: I don't truly understand how to use Twitter...

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Re:Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool by rational_indian on Friday October 23, 2015 @05:41AM (#10437628)
>Note: I don't truly understand how to use Twitter...

Does anyone?

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Re:Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool by prawn on Friday October 23, 2015 @05:18PM (#10441359)
Can feel like it goes hours with barely anyone seeding it with content, outside a select few people. You can tweet something you feel is really interesting and get no feeling that anyone has seen or appreciated it (my two main accounts have about 800-2000 followers). There are some active topics, but a lot of friends have abandoned it for Instagram. I don't use Facebook so I don't see how active that is by comparison.

My wife works in social media specifically and would go days without a tweet now. I take that as one sign.

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