DISQUS

Carl Carter · 2 months ago

Brilliant. My one point of difference is while you are absolutely on target re: Facebook, LinkedIn etc., Twitter seems to have evolved into a different animal for two reasons: (1) It doesn't do as good a job of enabling interactive conversations that other people can easily follow, and (b) It can reach a much broader audience -- far beyond your followers. (I now see Twitter followers as almost irrelevant and don't do anything to add them.)

Those two Twitter traits are making it less personal by its nature, so people there now follow topics/hashes more than people, and that makes outright business promotion (e.g. auction announcements) more acceptable. If somebody's got a search set on #duluth, they don't much care about the poster, just whether it interests them.