Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me?

Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me? by tptacek on Saturday May 30, 2009 @02:11PM (#633939)

Do you read Hacker News, or just troll it? Twitter stories make the front page several times a week, and virtually every one of them has a high-rated comment from someone who needs to point out to us how unimportant Twitter is to them.

I don't have time to learn to like anything but Bass and weiss beer, to find out what J-Horror is all about, to play Mob Wars on Facebook, to learn Haskell, to put up solar panels, or to visit New Orleans. Is that 6 "Ask HN" posts I'm unfairly holding back? Or is "I don't see why this is so hyped up" just a really boring story?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me? by stijnm on Saturday May 30, 2009 @04:09PM (#634052)

Hi,

I am using HN to understand from (hopefully) other tech professionals if they have found a way to leverage Twitter. (And have read some good comments already in this thread.)

Twitter is very real-time, that is its power and a core part of its functionality.

So, your 6 generalised analogies on not having time for X misses the point.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me? by tptacek on Saturday May 30, 2009 @05:10PM (#634093)

Next time, try http://www.searchyc.com first.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me? by beta on Saturday May 30, 2009 @03:36PM (#634028)

Is that 6 "Ask HN" posts I'm unfairly holding back?

Nope. Not unless you're so desperate for up mods that you're going to start posting non-posts.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me? by villageidiot on Saturday May 30, 2009 @04:17PM (#634061)

I don't think the OP was trolling. Maybe s/he is just not as familiar with HN or Twitter as you are? Regardless, I think your response is disproportionately hostile and fosters an ungenerous environment. I find it discouraging that such an unforgiving response would receive so many upvotes.

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