One of the interesting side-effects of going to work by metro – as opposed to, say, driving there – are the conversations you sometimes get to overhear. This morning, two people were talking about Twitter and Facebook, and it went something like this: on Twitter there’s too much stuff going on, I prefer Facebook because people there are simple, just like us
. You might say it just confirms that for most people Twitter is overwhelming, the main cause for the slow growth and bad user retention. But I say that’s precisely the most fascinating aspect of Twitter, the best reason to participate: to see how the world works outside of your narrow social circle, to meet new people, to discover ideas that would otherwise have no way of reaching you. In a way, using Twitter is like travelling to a foreign country and learning how they do things, while people sticking to Facebook are never leaving their hometown.
As a result of the RT, the more you use Twitter, the more your audience and sphere of interest expands in unexpected ways. Horizons widening
— Andreas (@aantonop) July 4, 2016
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