Comments on: Why I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter

By: Felipe Sahagún

Felipe Sahagún — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:14:24 +0000

I’d love to join. It’s really enriching to follow GIGAOM, but it’s past midnight here in Madrid, I’ve been too many hours today in twitter and I still have a few exams to read before going to sleep. If you make an effort to please every follower asking for information, advise…, twitter becomes a 24 hours.7 days a week, Master or PhD seminar. Nobody could pay for it and, I am afraid, very few bodies would take it without going blufffff.

By: JFWaller

JFWaller — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:57:54 +0000

My sentiments exactly.

By: JFWaller

JFWaller — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:50:15 +0000

IMHO, twitter is small talk for small minds. Many of us prefer not to reduce our lives to snippets.

By: Artful

Artful — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:10:28 +0000

But all the “love” features of Twitter are available to me now via my e-mail and news flashes on my I-Phone. I get better-all-around news coverage than anything Twitter can provide and I avoid the inanity of the Twitterati.

By: wmougayar

wmougayar — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:31:57 +0000

Mathew, I’m curious to learn more about your thoughts regarding the future of online/social conversations- maybe a post of its own :) ?

On one hand you indirectly toss Branch, and in another point you believe we lost hope in Twitter’s ability to nurture conversations.

I believe Twitter can in one stroke improve its conversational backbone, if they wanted to. Branch should have been a Twitter feature, really. It’s ironic it is supported by 2 of its founders. Are they experimenting then folding it inside Twitter, or frustrated they couldn’t do it inside?

By: Aakar

Aakar — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:01:29 +0000

You are most welcome! And, btw it’s a fantastic read. I couldn’t agree more with you.

By: Gina Goodman

Gina Goodman — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:09:33 +0000

Good thoughts here… I think many feel the same. And as for addiction, I think that’s just the side effect of something that works. I’d consider myself thoroughly addicted to email, Google, the Internet as a whole…in that I don’t think I could survive without it! I don’t look at this as a negative effect, but more as progress maybe.

By: elsua

elsua — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:23:56 +0000

You are most welcome! Thanks for tapping into it and adding the link to yours over here. It made me go back, re-read it again and think whether the experience has changed since I wrote it and the answer is that yes! It’s changed a lot, but not necessarily the tools, nor my networks, but myself… It’s been a bit of a cathartic moment that blog post, because it helped me clear plenty of my ideas and pre-conceptions and once those are now moving on, so I am … Sticking around with Twitter, for now, for sure, but for how long, only time will tell ;) hehe

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:43:15 +0000

I agree — that fragmentation has (or could have) very real consequences for society. Thanks for the comment.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:41:29 +0000

That’s a good point, James — perhaps there will emerge a more open network of platforms than we have right now. I certainly hope so. Thanks for the comment.