Category Archives: twitter

I set up a market on Manifold. Thoughts?

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There are great things on Twitter. It’s a great way to find news, engage with people in your field, and DMs are basically replacing email for many. But there are also problems. Those of us who use the site also routinely call it the “hellsite.” Recently I realized why Twitter bothers so many of us. […]

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I turned on StayFocused last Thursday and set it for a week. I locked myself out of Twitter and Facebook. Because so many people now message via Twitter and Facebook I did check via Chrome on my phone once a day. But I didn’t check the stream of messages at all. Obviously a lot has […]

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I’ve made it clear that I think we may be headed for a post-Twitter world sooner rather than later. It’s user base has been plateauing for a while. Perhaps Twitter will go into a slow decline, and eventually be relegated to a niche utility, rather like MySpace. In Twitter’s case its utility for breaking news […]

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The Decline and Fall of Twitter?:
Even Twitter? Can Twitter be declining? Over at the Atlantic‘s Technology Channel I note that my own Twitter conversations are not quite as dynamic as they once were, and speculate about why that might be. I didn’t…

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I hadn’t given the issue much thought, but that’ what Randall Parker asserted in the comments below. First, let’s look at Google Trends search traffic with Facebook as well: Facebook dwarfs twitter, so you can’t tell. So with only twitter: Interesting. Now let’s look with Alexa: It’s a little more ambiguous using Google Trends estimate […]

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The prince of neurobloggers Jonah Lehrer has a good if curious column up at the Wall Street Journal, Social Networks Can’t Replace Socializing. He concludes:
This doesn’t mean that we should stop socializing on the web. But it does suggest …

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Razib Khan