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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by yabatopia on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:52AM (#14136575)
If you use it that way, great, but it's not really a social network, but rather a personalized news feed with comments. Which brings us back to the OP: Twitter doesn't feel very social,
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by lenkite on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:23AM (#14136675)
I agree. Twitter is just RSS on steroids. And you don't really need steroids.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by pvdebbe on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:38AM (#14136736)
It's like RSS on a sugar rush.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by dade_ on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:38AM (#14137978)
And once promoted content started bombarding me in Twitter, I went back to RSS. Unfortunately sites are dropping RSS, though most WordPress sites have an unpublicized feed.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by felideon on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:20AM (#14138999)
Twitter via Bitlbee solves this problem for me: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoTwitter
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by kalmari on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:26AM (#14138238)
i used to use rss for podcasts too but most just use dedicated services now they are a lot harder to find these days and im sure your right about the rest.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by jpindar on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:58AM (#14139331)
Why should all networks feel the same? A news feed where I can ask questions and get personal answers from real journalists, politicians etc. feels very social to me.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by RodericDay on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:43AM (#14138014)
How is it not? The vast, vast majority of the people on facebook (I have like 1.2k friends) don't seem to ever post anything except maybe a pic once in a while.

Likes are similar to retweets.

Seems like such an absurd distinction.

Twitter is also fast and snappy compared to obese FB. It's basically noble in comparison.

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by kalmari on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:22AM (#14138211)
its even categorized that way in most app stores. its how i used it too never found a news source that was not on twitter either.
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