[TheTrotters]

That’s of course a fair point.

But there are key differences. Twitter is used as a key communication channel for politicians, public officials, business executives, journalists, academics etc. all over the world. People’s careers and influence are built partly on their follower count and who those followers are. Key users post under their real name.

Digg and MySpace were very different from that.

[syshum]

>>twitter is used as a key communication channel for politicians, public officials, business executives, journalists, academics etc. all over the world

I think this is over stated, Twitter is used to amplify, or bring attention to some announcment, event, or other communication but twitter itself is not the communication channel, it simply links to the communication channel which is often another platform (youtube as an example) or a website, or some other communication type.

Twitter is advertising, be it paid ads, or the "politicians, public officials, business executives, journalists, academics " advertising their own work directing people off twitter to consume more of that work

Personally I have found very little value and very little substantive communications coming out of twitter, in fact the only time I even visit twitter it is look at meme accounts not to find actual information or news

[jpindar]

>the only time I even visit twitter it is look at meme accounts

Funny how the people who don't use something always know all about it. (Science Twitter is not meme Twitter.)

[syshum]

>>Science Twitter

Well if science is being conducted over twitter that goes along way to explain the terrible state of modern science...