True, but there certainly are days where I prefer the random termite colony picture, or a Cordyceps zombie...
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I've not found twitter to be particularly enjoyable. If you're not part of some close knit group, you're simply ignored. Especially if your profile doesn't match an expected pattern.
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Replying to @AndreLAppel @sir_deenicus and
I'm so sorry. Is there anything that can be done by individuals or do you think it's a more ah holistic problem of the medium or perhaps of science?
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Replying to @o_guest @AndreLAppel and
Sorry for this delayed reply. I rarely sample my account since engagement is rare. By the time I'd checked in, almost a week had gone by. So I said, I'll wait to write something proper since I've thought a lot on this. Then it just kept getting later and later :(
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
When I write it's with the assumption that no one is interested in what I have to say. I think this is realistic. It's worse on twitter given the interface. So I try to keep tweet threads as short as possible. I couldn't do so here, which was another problem.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
I got it shorter but still longish: I think part of the problem comes from the nature of attention being limited compounding with a rich get richer effect. In the less connected days, people didn't have to compete across the entire world so attention wasn't as thinly spread.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
Twitter is also different from Facebook in that the network isn't grounded by real world relations. Engagement is probably more scale free than Facebook. People who go to it are looking for a chance to interact with ideas or thinkers they wouldn't as easily get to meet.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
But what happens is there are only cliques or trolls. Trolls stay because they figure out that negative attention is much easier to get and their personality accepts this. Trolls are also happy to engage with anyone so nobody nodes of small degree get mostly neg-attention.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
I think large majority face this. It's no fun to tweet into the ether; might as well just keep a private journal. I don't think I deserve anything though. It's only disheartening when I ask a question, get no replies but someone else does get an answer.
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Thank you for sharing this. It makes sense and I appreciate these issues myself even if I don't have to face them directly.
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