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Re:Let Twitter Be Twitter by ducuboy on Thursday November 05, 2015 @04:36PM (#10516270)
Yes! Twitter requires too much work to be useful!

Sorry for the plug, but this is exactly how http://svven.com can help. New user tweets a couple of links - gets other people that tweeted same links - and also the other links they tweeted. How's this for a solution?

Re:Let Twitter Be Twitter by Leynos on Thursday November 05, 2015 @05:00PM (#10516415)
Just tried it. It makes me look incredibly boring. :( I just don't seem to tweet enough links to things that are actually interesting. Lesson learned.
Re:Let Twitter Be Twitter by ducuboy on Thursday November 05, 2015 @05:08PM (#10516462)
This is another great point!

Twitter just doesn't offer any incentive to tweet interesting stuff, besides the vanity features (stars/favs/likes/whatever they just introduced).

Svven gives you a good incentive to do so. Thanks a lot for trying it, check back after tweeting some cool links! ;)

Re:Let Twitter Be Twitter by austenallred on Thursday November 05, 2015 @05:42PM (#10516656)
Didn't PG say he wanted something like that?
Re:Let Twitter Be Twitter by ducuboy on Friday November 06, 2015 @02:05AM (#10518167)
Did he?

Well I applied for YC Fellowship and didn't make it. That was a pitty also given the naming coincidence - "fellowship" is the core concept in Svven.

http://youtu.be/iQx-e4KPNaE