“I am quitting Twitter for a while”
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I will be back, I just want to break the cycle of the compulsion to check it given that I think it's healthier in much smaller doses.
I also think Twitter will make changes to the behavior the product rewards, and it will make it a much better place to be.
Just to say it, I also think Twitter will be a very valuable company.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world...
A new platform emerges.
The early adopters find other early adopters. They are all enthusiastic. It's a small community so things stay informally OK.
Word gets out. There's a boom. Growing pains.
Eventually it's a mass platform. Everyone is there. It turns out that lots of people's morality is governed by fear of punishment and not fear of guilt and bam, there's a rising tide of nastiness.
A new platform emerges ...
It's a platform built on easy-mode interaction - getting to know people in depth is more difficult.
This makes sense in the context of Twitter's underpinnings in emergency vehicle / taxi dispatch. (1)
What it's actually becomes is a massive discussion board where information is organized around people rather than topics.
With the genius tweak of limiting to 140 characters to drive word economy and a low commitment tax to open the app and participate.
As such I am baffled why they don't roll some basic community and forum management tools.
People are having discussions! In a group!
So give them some tools to solve the oldest community challenges in the book of trolling, content discovery, relationship development, etc.
(1) http://www.briansolis.com/2011/04/twitter-co-founder-jack-do...