Twitter is damned handy for fluff, stuff and nonsense and time-killing, but as annoying as all hell at times and not good for in-depth stuff.
Like everything in life, totally depends on who you follow/associate with. I follow a variety of professors and constitutional/procedural experts and there have been some amazingly in-depth conversations happen on twitter on topics as diverse as parliament's role in going to war, the purpose of private members' bills, etc. Sure, the character limit can be frustrating, and leads to lots of posting of links pointing to research papers and the like (which is great!), but as a general rule, I get way more in-depth stuff out of Twitter than I get fluff.
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Date: 2014-03-12 10:50 am (UTC)Like everything in life, totally depends on who you follow/associate with. I follow a variety of professors and constitutional/procedural experts and there have been some amazingly in-depth conversations happen on twitter on topics as diverse as parliament's role in going to war, the purpose of private members' bills, etc. Sure, the character limit can be frustrating, and leads to lots of posting of links pointing to research papers and the like (which is great!), but as a general rule, I get way more in-depth stuff out of Twitter than I get fluff.