Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow

Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by majewsky on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:27AM (#14137242)

> On Twitter, if you're not capital I interesting or flailing for attention, you'll just get ignored.

So? Twitter is as much a platform for consumption as it is for broadcasting.

Also, I find that statement to be pretty untrue. For example, my own account only contains very few "original programming". Most of the time, I just scroll through my timeline and push "retweet" on the most interesting stuff. That has been enough to earn me nearly 150 followers.

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by norswap on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:14AM (#14138172)

> So?

So it makes Twitter a frustrating experience for those that do not "just" want to consume content, and it's one of the reason that it is not growing.

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by massysett on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:13AM (#14137844)

How many of those followers are bots?

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by adrian1973 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:39AM (#14139152)

Indeed. In my own case, I haven't tweeted in years, but I have not lost any followers (about 180-190, which is incredible considering I'm a non-famous misanthrope) and last time I scanned my followers list they were almost all friends or acquaintances who themselves have not tweeted in years, marketing types who follow 1000000 people hoping for a follow back, and obvious bots.

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