Have any of these people said why they have made that choice?
I don’t use twitter, but one possibility might be that it actually isn’t a discussion forum. It’s a place for drive-by firing off of thoughts. For a prominent person, the function of a tweet is to say, “This is what I am thinking about at the moment,” so as to invite conversation elsewhere with the people they already know and find worth while talking to. This is far less time-consuming than an actual discussion forum, where it’s expected that a post will be of a more substantial length and that you will participate in subsequent discussion.
I predict from this hypothesis that Eliezer makes hardly any replies on Twitter to replies to his tweets.
Have any of these people said why they have made that choice?
Not that I’ve seen, but I have seen Paul Graham tweet complaints about Twitter, and I think I’ve seen Eliezer complain about the behavior of users on the platform.
Twitter makes tweet replies less prominent than Facebook. When I’m scrolling down Eliezer’s Facebook feed, I see comment replies to his posts. When I scroll down his Twitter feed, I have to click a tweet to see replies. So that could be playing a role.
It doesn’t seem socially expected to reply to replies to your tweets.
Have any of these people said why they have made that choice?
I don’t use twitter, but one possibility might be that it actually isn’t a discussion forum. It’s a place for drive-by firing off of thoughts. For a prominent person, the function of a tweet is to say, “This is what I am thinking about at the moment,” so as to invite conversation elsewhere with the people they already know and find worth while talking to. This is far less time-consuming than an actual discussion forum, where it’s expected that a post will be of a more substantial length and that you will participate in subsequent discussion.
I predict from this hypothesis that Eliezer makes hardly any replies on Twitter to replies to his tweets.
Not that I’ve seen, but I have seen Paul Graham tweet complaints about Twitter, and I think I’ve seen Eliezer complain about the behavior of users on the platform.
Twitter makes tweet replies less prominent than Facebook. When I’m scrolling down Eliezer’s Facebook feed, I see comment replies to his posts. When I scroll down his Twitter feed, I have to click a tweet to see replies. So that could be playing a role.
It doesn’t seem socially expected to reply to replies to your tweets.