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Good use for Twitter?
I hear a lot about how Twitter is a bad concept, because the character limit means things can be oversimplified, taken out of context, and posted without a source. I've never used it myself, but recently I've been wondering if it can be useful to me. For example, some bloggers I follow might post some insights on Twitter that they don't anywhere else, and help me discover other interesting blogs.
Have you found a good use for Twitter besides as a social network or news aggregator?
It's pretty good when checking for service outages since companies usually tweet when they plan on doing maintenance, ETAs on when they will be finished and it's also often the first place they post when there is unexpected downtime... but other than that and the rare bit of "breaking news" type stuff (the veracity and value of which is often highly questionable) I rarely ever use or check it. I honestly just don't really "get" twitter or the point in following people so I get spammed with notifications every time they mindlessly tweet something out into the world.
Twitter is just different. It's got good points and bad, as you say. I use it as an alternative to other media and it keeps me off of Facebook, a site which I can't justify at all.
What does twitter do differently than facebook that allows you to justify using it?
I don't know these days, maybe nothing. But twitter used to be one of the quickest ways to find out what was going on in the world. It also lent itself to group watching tv shows. Whereas Facebook when I put it away was all about self promotion and one upping others' lives. Either in quantity or quality. Ugh.
Even as a non-user of Twitter, I can answer that: it allows strangers to see what you post. The primary use case for Facebook is to share content with people you know. The primary use case for Twitter is to share content with people you don't know.
I can browse Twitter without logging in. That's basically impossible with Facebook. That's the only reason I still sometimes browse through tweets.
What I use Twitter for:
It's just fun! You talk about yourself, you talk about other people, you post about things you'd normally think too mundane to talk about, whatever you like!
I think I've said this before here, but I'd use twitter if it was designed around microblogging about my life to my friends and family.
You could do that, but getting them to follow you might be the problem, lol. On the other hand, with all the promoted ads in almost all the social media today, there's really not much different. I have some relations who microblog among their siblings using group chat. If you can call it blogging. Ad free for them.
A potential source of experienced developers when it goes out of business.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/25/twitter-q3-2018/
I mean, yeah, it's profitable at the moment. I hope at some point it isn't.
Bad take.
Not really-- I actually didn't use Twitter until maybe two years ago. I stayed away from it thinking it was more of a fad.
Twitter is a politics machine for me. While I mostly discuss politics on reddit (and here a little bit). I find Twitter is great for following actual politicians (and groups) to keep track of what they are up to and learn about up and coming politicians (like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez).