Comments on: Why I Like Twitter

By: Serdar

Serdar — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:05:06 +0000

Yeah, I’ve tried Tweetdeck and am now using Hootsuite mainly to broadcast. I just find the whole “dip in and read whenever” metaphor to not be very workable, because then you find yourself at odds with people who say “What, you didn’t know about X? It was all over Twitter the other week!” I figure anything important enough to be discussed or mentioned on Twitter will make the rounds of other venues eventually, so it’s just not worth the hassle for me.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:57:21 +0000

I use Tweetdeck and lists to make it more manageable. But you can think of Twitter as a stream you dip into when you have time rather than trying to read everything, if that makes sense.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:49:42 +0000

I can’t use Twitter for anything other than one-way broadcasting, because if I try to keep up with it in anything other than the most cursory and useless way, I get flooded — and I don’t even follow that many people. Give people a firehose….