Couldn't agree more. Some good info gets distributed that way, but so does even more crap. It does tax people's ability to filter.
> Twitter has an atrocious UI.
Sure, twitter.com has a terrible UI, but there are many other UIs available that are better
> there are a lot of us (dozens of us!) that won't touch Twitter with a ten foot pole.
There are a lot of us who do use Twitter too. I'm connected to probably over a hundred fellow developers, sysadmins, computer scientists, etc. One step away through them are thousands, and we do learn from each other every day. (More so than here, that's for damn sure.) Avoiding Twitter means missing out on that, just like using only Twitter would mean missing out on blog content. It's a high price to pay for fashion, and people who avoid or dump on Twitter for that reason seem to outnumber those who do so out of genuine principle by a large margin.
Couldn't agree more. Some good info gets distributed that way, but so does even more crap. It does tax people's ability to filter.
> Twitter has an atrocious UI.
Sure, twitter.com has a terrible UI, but there are many other UIs available that are better
> there are a lot of us (dozens of us!) that won't touch Twitter with a ten foot pole.
There are a lot of us who do use Twitter too. I'm connected to probably over a hundred fellow developers, sysadmins, computer scientists, etc. One step away through them are thousands, and we do learn from each other every day. (More so than here, that's for damn sure.) Avoiding Twitter means missing out on that, just like using only Twitter would mean missing out on blog content. It's a high price to pay for fashion, and people who avoid or dump on Twitter for that reason seem to outnumber those who do so out of genuine principle by a large margin.