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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by logicallee on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:45PM (#12672675)
the problem is that by other metrics twitter is doing pretty well. There are very important people who will engage you in conversation (such as here) and ask you to DM them on twitter. That's insane.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by komali2 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:52PM (#12672722)
What do you think would happen if Twitter didn't exist? You'd probably just email them or something.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by logicallee on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:30PM (#12673590)
huh? If cell phones didn't exist, you would make an arrangement to go meet someone at a certain time and place, and if you both didn't show up, OH WELL. "stood up".

That doesn't diminish from the value and buy-in of cell phones and is a bizarre argument to make regarding the value, if any, of twitter.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by sanderjd on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:20AM (#12675207)
I don't really get this analogy. Cell phones are a qualitative improvement in that situation. How is sending a DM an improvement over sending an email?
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by logicallee on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:39AM (#12675654)
I guarantee you that every single person sending and receiving DM's has an email address, so you'll have to ask them.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by wott on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:05PM (#12673462)
Ask you to what? Deathmatch?
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by gspetr on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:00PM (#12673757)
Pretty sure "DM" here stands for "Direct Message", i.e. private message.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by logicallee on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:30PM (#12673594)
regardless, it is a preferred method of communication (to the exclusion of other types) of many people, and is absolutely huge.
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