I've been short on Twitter from the get-go, I just didn't think it would take this long. This doesn't mean I'm anti-Twitter - I would actually prefer that it stay the niche platform for journalists/celebrities/activists.
I don't know the business strategy to make sure that is viable, but I don't want it to be a mass-market product (except in terms of consumption)...the signal to noise ratio is so much better than other social platforms.
Twitter, quite bizarrely, is filling a void no longer filled by newspapers (wow, what that says about our attention spans). It's only peripherally mainstream but incredibly useful as a _tool_ to a small group of people. It's not any one thing: it's different depending on who you are.
That's why I wrote ‘Twitter Should Be A Public Utility’ http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/ For me the disconnect was that Twitter failed and partially succeeded in making Twitter what I call 'plumbing', or a sort of duct tape for the web. If microblogging had a stack similar to TCP/IP that could be fundamental to how the web operates, then they missed that boat repeatedly.
I don't know the business strategy to make sure that is viable, but I don't want it to be a mass-market product (except in terms of consumption)...the signal to noise ratio is so much better than other social platforms.
Twitter, quite bizarrely, is filling a void no longer filled by newspapers (wow, what that says about our attention spans). It's only peripherally mainstream but incredibly useful as a _tool_ to a small group of people. It's not any one thing: it's different depending on who you are.