Measuring how bad Twitter is
This (and the original post[0]) sum up how I feel about Twitter. Every few months (since joining in 2009), I jump on and attempt to curate my feed to only get stuff I care about. I stick around for a few weeks, then get overwhelmed by the deluge. So I constantly curate and trim and it all becomes very tiresome.<p>I want Twitter to be a feed of news and opinions from organisations and people I care about, but it is far too hard to jump in and see how a conversation started or evolved. It is far too hard to filter out the noise.<p>Honestly, my RSS feeds give me everything I need and they&#x27;ve been going strong for over 10 years. Sprinkle in a bit of Apple News to fill in the blanks and Twitter quickly finds itself in the &quot;too hard&quot; basket.<p>The financial state of Twitter highlighted by this article is mind-blowing. How on earth have costs crept up so much with no meaningful improvement in product? As a very astute tech-savvy person, I cannot see anything that Twitter has done in <i>years</i> that have made it better. That stands in stark contrast to Facebook.<p>I&#x27;m sad about this because Twitter has been such an integral part of the modern internet, in democratising information. It&#x27;s role in the Arab Spring alone was world-changing. It&#x27;s a pity it hasn&#x27;t been able to harness this.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brontecapital.blogspot.ca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;some-comment-on-twitter-buyout-rumours.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brontecapital.blogspot.ca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;some-comment-on-twi...</a>