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Comment by marcus_holmes | Hacker News Reader

I stopped using Twitter a few years ago. Haven't regretted it. I see nothing useful or good there.

And it's amazing how it just doesn't matter if you don't pay any attention to it.

Supposedly, it's good for security discussions. I've tried and in reality whilst some signal is there the noise is just overwhelming. Even with curation, almost 100% of the traffic was unrelated personal conflicts.

Hopefully in a few years' we'll rediscover the personal/professional separation.

Not to mention politics. Yes security guys on Twitter, we get it, you're all very progressive. Can you talk about bloody computer security for a change?

> Supposedly, it's good for security discussion

Can you really discuss anything useful with only 280 characters?

Nope.

I am convinced that twitter is the worst thing to happen to dialog in western society in the last 20 years. No subject of any depth can be adequately examined in 280 characters or less. All nuance is lost, politician try and write for quick viral sound bites rather than reasoned argument.

can you imagine Thomas Paine trying to write Common Sense in 250 charcters, or if Adam Smith or Karl Marx tried to optimize their writting to maximize how viral quotes would be for pwn'ing their opponents

I've never used it, because every time I click a tweet, all of the replies are pointless meme gifs, or people desperate for attention

That and the side bar is desperate to remind you about every awful thing that is going on in the world

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