Why the F are we still using Twitter
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I don’t think that “Why the F …” is less offensive than “Why the Fuck …”, I rather think the author takes me for a fool.
You should, like Heinrich Heine, subvert censorship, not make it part of your writing (even if you don’t have to):
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—— —— —— —— ——Sure we can all pull out a story here or there of someone 'average' discovering and using Twitter, but I'm afraid my experience on the whole doesn't indicate that your Mom or mine will be using Twitter anytime soon.
Facebook? Now that's a whole different story.
The fact that FB is growing with the old folks means something has gone right for them where it didn't for MySpace.
Now, I'm also a privacy-fanatic and I think what Facebook has done with our data is slightly evil. This is, of course, only because I was the first "class" as it were in 2004 that lived with Facebook through all 4 years of undergrad. Needless to say, there's a lot of stuff on there that I no longer identify with.
I've since started using Facebook as an "identity platform" for which I can shape my public perception, keeping my private life offline completely.
Of course, this is what Zuckerberg wanted with living responsible adult lives with transparency, but what it really comes down to is it will dilute the platform because what is "public" will be your front-facing perception.
All that said, Twitter is still doing a good job with a low-overhead buy-in. Signing up for Facebook is signing up for way more than most want to.
And Facebook tried to screw over Zynga when they saw how much money they could be making if they forced Zynga to give them a cut by using Facebook's currency. Besides for that, they've been very good to developers. But that's a pretty egregious offense.
If you think Twitter is ffing the _users_, then the question would be more appropriately why you are still using it.
Twitters recent spate of outages is probably something they will get on top of.