> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? I'm sure it has its bubble-living adherents here. Then again, so did Quora.
To know what's going through the USA President's brain right now? Yes.
For a leader of a technical project? I doubt it.
If anyone's got a concern about what you're working on, and can't be arsed to go to the relevant forum or mailing list and say so there... well, it probably wasn't valid anyway.
Some (even if trivally small) barrier to entry for a technical community is good and useful.
Twitter on the other hand... maybe a non-existent barrier to entry is good for political discourse (that's another conversation), but I don't see how you're easily going to distinguish the wheat from the chaff on really wide-open forums like that for technical communities.
> To know what's going through the USA President's brain right now? Yes.
Even here the utility is dubious. A main product of Trump's twitter is food for comedians or useless information. I believe it is important to keep updated on politics and to hold people in power to high standards, but few of the things Trump has to say cannot wait a day.
Actually you could say that twitter availability is a cause of Trump expressing so many controversial statements.
let's go to the source. here is the latest tweet from him. how is it hilarious?
"Today, it was my true honor to present the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy—for the second year in a row, to the @ArmyWP_Football Black Knights. Congratulations once again on your historic victories, and keep on making us proud!"
i don't want to start a political debate, but blanket statements are rarely useful and can be easily verified.
I agree, I was sloppy in my comment and did no good at representing a good point. I am somewhat critical of the "we need to keep updated to the hour" mindset also because I tend to selectively focus on the negative sides. Before reentering this discussion in the future I should better focus on understanding my own positions.
To know what's going through the USA President's brain right now? Yes.
For a leader of a technical project? I doubt it.
If anyone's got a concern about what you're working on, and can't be arsed to go to the relevant forum or mailing list and say so there... well, it probably wasn't valid anyway.
Some (even if trivally small) barrier to entry for a technical community is good and useful.
Twitter on the other hand... maybe a non-existent barrier to entry is good for political discourse (that's another conversation), but I don't see how you're easily going to distinguish the wheat from the chaff on really wide-open forums like that for technical communities.