I hate doing that as well, but I quite like the challenge of trying to fit a complete thought into 140 characters. It's not good for every scenario.Originally Posted by Formalhaut
It's the 140 characters or less thing that I dislike. Look, I write in full sentences, and I can't stand abbreviating things like I'm using text-speak. Give me more words to play with!
Reddit's fine as well, but I don't like using it for live stuff much. I got to /r/spacex for all the launches, but I find that everything gets lost in the live chats because you have so many new posts coming up at once. You have the same thing on Twitter if you're looking at the 'live' results to a search, but by default if you're looking at your timeline it's already filtering out duplicate information and a lot you probably don't care about. As for being a sub-par product? I guess it depends what you're looking for. Personally it's my most used social media platform, and I don't really follow many celebrities except Wil Wheton.
Maybe it gets worse when the numbers get too big. I currently follow 119 people, but only a few of those are *very* active. I imagine if you have a thousand or so the timeline is going to get very messy.
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