OT: The OT Thread | The Thread of Destiny

[Hansen]

The only real reason I had Twitter was to follow hockey insiders and their breaking news. (Dhaliwal, Friedman, Dreger, etc.) Have they all begun posting on Blue Sky as well?

I dont think most of them have yet, but theyre starting to move over now

 

[RandV]

Just delete social media and play with your kids/live your real life instead. You'll forget about it in three weeks and your life/friendships/relationships will get better fast, guaranteed.

Again I don't use it but I'd give Twitter/Bluesky a pass here as I don't really consider it 'social media' like the other platforms.

On the topic overall I thought Twitter worked well with media, sports for example, connecting individual users to people of influence/authority for small tidbits of information that will usually have a link to an external site for more details. It's much harder to monetize because you're not being tracked/profiled the same way as say Facebook for monetization through advertisement, but it's a great tool for companies/media/celebrities to track engagement with minimal effort. Which for Twitter made for great free advertisement, back in the earlier days watching the NHL everyone was pushing "follow us on Twitter".

Of course the problem is building such a large community without proper moderation you're going to veer towards politics and shit posting. And that's basically what "X" is now, Musk bought it and intentionally pushed it down that cliff. Which makes room for an alternative like BlueSky to get back to that original purpose of Twitter.