Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow
by massysett on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:53AM
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In other words it's a replacement for Google Reader. That's great but it will always be a niche product.
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A niche product that has revenue in the billions and hundreds of millions of users. That's not a bad niche. I think Twitter should embrace this and do as much as they can to serve their fans and stop chasing growth.
Hacker News is a niche product. Should it branch out into celebrity news to grow their audience?
Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow
by DoofusOfDeath on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:29AM
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You mean have stories by Chris Lattner and Linus???
Man, I would pay 10x as much for that!
Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow
by at-fates-hands on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:46AM
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To a degree, yes.
I use my main Twitter feed for development news and info sec stuff so the people I follow are pretty visible in those industries.
My news feed is done through feedly, which includes more mainstream news, celeb gossip, architecture and other random topics I'm interested in.
If I combined the two, I'd go nuts in a day trying to sort through it all. I've learned over time to curate my own feed and to never "cross the streams" if you know what I mean. It works well and instead of trying to filter thought so much cruft, I have specific apps for the topics I want to keep up on.