Reports of Twitter's death greatly exaggerated, says CEO Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has mostly quashed rumours that the struggling social network is introducing an algorithmically-curated timeline. News that the company plans to change its distinctive stream of content presented in the order in which it was created emerged late last week and quickly spawned the #RIPtwitter hashtag as …
I for one would be happy to see the death of twitter.
Fingers crossed for facebook going the same way.
And I reserve my most hoped closure for last, LinkedIn.
I really ******* hate LinkedIn.
Arrrgggg!
I'm calm now, no need to call the cops, I'm not a danger to myself or anyone else.
Actually I might be a danger to someone else, but probably not any El Reg readers.
Same here -- get LOTs of messages about Harvey Floobermann wanting me to join his professional network, and of course I never heard from him.
Flagging as spam can be useless, though -- we run Maia Spam filters and I noticed that Linkedin messages have way too low scores to be considered SPAM. Better filtering them automatically. Not that that will hurt them...
I've have a twitter account but never use it, only got it because we thought it might be useful for monitoring TV viewers reports of outages (I do playout so we like to know when something might be wrong - we can't monitor every channel) - never really worked very well.
A colleague who is a fan says it is good when a topic explodes but then it always seems to descend into nastiness.
I do wonder how twitter ever expect to make money - I doubt people will put up with advertising or pay for its use directly.
Just because you have no use for them, doesn't mean a lot of others don't. If Twitter and Facebook went under, one or more something elses would take their place. It isn't as though people are all going to say "Keef was right all along, social networking is stupid and pointless" and use the internet for only those things you find worthy.
If Twitter and Facebook went under, one or more something else would take their place.
We know. Still, even if only for a few days, I can't help thinking that the world would be better place without Twitter & co.
Of course, what really worries me is whether of my savings schemes has been investing in this shit. The German banks seem to have talent for it, as the sub-prime mortgage disaster showed.
Twitter has always struck as best suited for narcissists who want me to know all about their trivial, banal lives. Good riddance. Facebook and LinkedIn for all their goofiness seem to allow more contact with peers, colleagues, and friends and allow for longer, allegedly more thoughtful posts.
That may well be because you don't use it, which does make it easy to discount. It's a very good way of having very low-friction interactions with interesting people whose opinions you enjoy hearing. There is a lot of interesting stuff I would never have heard about if not for Twitter and it has given me the chance to talk with some of my favourite authors, comedians and scientists as well as keeping me aware of a lot of what is going on in my field.
It's also super-great for puns, though not everybody sees that as an advantage.
Am I the only one for whom the "More from The Register" section for this article is five articles about Steve Ballmer, and one about Satya Nadella not being Steve Ballmer?
Did this article have some Ballmeric overtones that I didn't pick up on? Or is "Simon Sharwood" a pen-name, and the jig is now accidentally up?
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