I have serious doubts about that being true. What about people submitting their own content? Stuff from RSS? Irc? Forwards at work? Random discovery? Only links I have ever seen on twitter is to Wil Weathon's blog posts. Not a single link I have posted on HN/reddit has ever come from twitter.
Guess my friends are more interested in posting original stuff than plugging content, and I'm pretty happy about that. If it's on their site, my RSS reader checks the internet 400x more times a day than I check twitter myself.
I think some twitter "power users" are oblivious to the fact that to everyone else it doesn't have to be the end all be all new everything communication platform it is to them. Me at least, I'm fully open about my ignorance about other uses :)
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I have serious doubts about that being true. What about people submitting their own content? Stuff from RSS? Irc? Forwards at work? Random discovery? Only links I have ever seen on twitter is to Wil Weathon's blog posts. Not a single link I have posted on HN/reddit has ever come from twitter.
Guess my friends are more interested in posting original stuff than plugging content, and I'm pretty happy about that. If it's on their site, my RSS reader checks the internet 400x more times a day than I check twitter myself.
I think some twitter "power users" are oblivious to the fact that to everyone else it doesn't have to be the end all be all new everything communication platform it is to them. Me at least, I'm fully open about my ignorance about other uses :)