Twitter is a poor place

[The Lizard Wizard]

It's a handy search engine for collective consciousness.
And if you mainly follow cute cat pic accounts it's a pretty awesome place.

 

[payn]

It's a handy search engine for collective consciousness.
And if you mainly follow cute cat pic accounts it's a pretty awesome place.

I thought "people's cats, and racist rants" was Facebooks domain?

 

[Asisreo]

Its time to turn Twitter off

But where are you going to experience discussions about the homoerotic tendencies of cartoon characters where someone in the comments inexplicably has a high-quality artwork displaying those tendencies with viscerally realistic genitalia of the fantasy beast they represent.

I'm not scarred, you're scarred!

 

[The Lizard Wizard]

I thought "people's cats, and racist rants" was Facebooks domain?

There's some overlap between the two.

One thing about Twitter is that it isn't a great place for self promotion, which I see as another positive.

 

[Umbran]

No - you're mistaking usage for importance. Twitter is important because journalists use it and promote it.

With respect, I think you are incredibly incorrect there, but discussing it would violate our rules on politics.

But, I suggest the people there who have had the greatest impact on the world at large are most certainly not engaged in journalism.

 

[AnotherGuy]

And if you mainly follow cute cat pic accounts it's a pretty awesome place.

I do that with Insta - amazing animals and beautiful homes & sites around the world.
Great way for fueling imagination.

 

[beancounter]

I've never used Twitter, and I don't need to - because so many people quote Twitter post on other social media platforms. I'm "exposed to Twitter whether I like it or not

One of my FB friends uses FB almost exclusively to share Twitter post - which is a bit ironic.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Twitter is like a play that changes every day. And every day on twitter there is one main character in the play.

The goal is to never be it.

 

[payn]

I've never used Twitter, and I don't need to - because so many people quote Twitter post on other social media platforms. I'm "exposed to Twitter whether I like it or not

One of my FB friends uses FB almost exclusively to share Twitter post - which is a bit ironic.

One of the bennies of EN World is getting all D&D tweets posted and more!

 

[Bedrockgames]

With respect, I think you are incredibly incorrect there, but discussing it would violate our rules on politics.

But, I suggest the people there who have had the greatest impact on the world at large are most certainly not engaged in journalism.

I don't want to get into the politics of this either. If I understand your meaning (and it is very possible I am missing who you are referring to). I think it is possible for both to be true: there are a lot of bad actors online, but the media in general has also given twitter more relevance and attention than it probably ought to have. This seems especially true to me when I read a story and part of the story identifies a trend, mood or opinion happening in the country, by pointing to tweets, but when you dig in, it's like a handful of people and most of them aren't even using their real names. I think we have just done a bad job as a culture, putting the opinion of people on twitter into perspective. But again, I think that comes with time. It is a new media and new media seems to be more dazzling and have greater persuasive power when it first emerges.

 

[MarkB]

The only time I check Twitter is when ENworld is down, to see what status updates Morris has posted.

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Right, thus you calling me dishonest for disagreeing with you. Which is bad form.

I took a full day to ponder on this and talked with an anglophone colleague of mine. He echoed what you said. And now that I'm thinking back on it, it absolutely was too strong of a statement. It wasn't my intention to come off like this, but it's still what happened and what I projected.

I apologize for my bad form, and I'll be careful in the future. Thank you for exchanging with me and giving me the opportunity of thinking back on it!

 

[Morrus]

I’ll leave this open as it’s a valid discussion, but I’d ask that you ignore the OP’s posts. He’s a recurring troll who keeps making alts and is mainly just trying to stir up trouble.

 

[dragoner]

Twitter is ok, I use it socially. Now business-wise, facebook is the best by far, that and dtrpg have been 99% of where the sales, and advertising goes, reddit a distant second, and if there is a third, maybe it's twitter, though I have scaled back the effort there. Discord is in the somewhere, nothing special though.

 

[Morrus]

Twitter is ok, I use it socially. Now business-wise, facebook is the best by far, that and dtrpg have been 99% of where the sales, and advertising goes, reddit a distant second, and if there is a third, maybe it's twitter, though I have scaled back the effort there. Discord is in the somewhere, nothing special though.

Facebook is by far the world's best ad platform at the moment. It's not even close.

 

[dragoner]

Facebook is by far the world's best ad platform at the moment. It's not even close.

Yes, I tried various other platforms, websites, over the last year or so; and you are correct, it is not even close.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I’ll leave this open as it’s a valid discussion, but I’d ask that you ignore the OP’s posts. He’s a recurring troll who keeps making alts and is mainly just trying to stir up trouble.

I suspected as much. It's always a red flag when a new poster is very argumentative with certain people like they had a history, but obviously couldn't have if the poster was truly a new poster.

 

[Umbran]

I suspected as much. It's always a red flag when ...

So, like, you want to actively tell people how they get discovered? Might want to think that through a little more...

 

[Bedrockgames]

I suspected as much. It's always a red flag when a new poster is very argumentative with certain people like they had a history, but obviously couldn't have if the poster was truly a new poster.

I have a goldfish memory. I can't remember posters who argue with me, even when they are using the same names. If they are making whole new identities that is going to go completely over my head.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I took a full day to ponder on this and talked with an anglophone colleague of mine. He echoed what you said. And now that I'm thinking back on it, it absolutely was too strong of a statement. It wasn't my intention to come off like this, but it's still what happened and what I projected.

I apologize for my bad form, and I'll be careful in the future. Thank you for exchanging with me and giving me the opportunity of thinking back on it!

I appreciate it.

English is a dumb language, speaking as a native speaker. I’m glad you indicated it wasn’t your mother tongue.