Goodbye Twitter?
Posted by Bob Jonkman on 14th January 2013
Goodbye Twitter
Twitter […] has become a hard-core marketing vehicle, with all that implies.
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With several hicups and false I’ve been posting on identi.ca for quite a while; but I can’t see any point in continuing with Twitter.On identi.ca I can at least be fairly certain people are following because they’re genuinely interested 🙂
That’s a principled, honourable, and brave move.
I’m as strong an advocate of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software as anyone, but I’m still making use of Twitter because of the network effects — there are so many people I find interesting on Twitter that the pain of using it is less than the benefit. On the other hand, the people I find interesting don’t use Identi.ca because there aren’t enough other interesting people there…
Of course, I’m not seeing much of the promotional material on Twitter because I use other software such as Pidgin and Mustard to view the messages. More F/LOSS applications to keep me safe from commercialism.
Another reason I probably won’t abandon Twitter altogether is because I’m also an advocate of keeping a (low) profile on the mainstream services (such as Facebook and Google Plus), simply to prevent others from acquiring my username and hijacking my identity. So I only post to Identi.ca, but Identi.ca sends those messages to Twitter automatically, and again I don’t have to deal with Twitter’s rampant commercialism.
Hopefully your good example will encourage me (and others) to take the next step and reject Twitter completely. You’ve given me something to think about.
–Bob.
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