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Frey Wavestrider
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That was the point I was making, 140 characters is not enough space to provide useful information. It has to be followed up with more details. If someone has real concerns about an issue a tweet will not fill provide the information. Do new players tweet, some I suspect do. But, I have nieces, nephews and students who were big on tweeting and they found often they were missing things with just tweets. They always followed them with another form of communication if the issue was important.Yeah, Jeff posts to Twitter... and that's great and all... but the UO community would be better served by posts here or on the Herald. However, honestly, 140 characters isn't enough to say anything of true substance. While I appreciate that he does use Twitter to chat back, and forth with a few players and I take the time to read his tweets, many (if not most) players probably don't even know he tweets, or wouldn't want to wade through 90% of his irrelevant (to UO) trash tweets.
And seriously, trying to trot out "new, younger players" as a reason to tweet is ABSURD. Tweets won't bring in any players once they hit the official site, or bother to see that most of the UO Twitter conversations are complaints about things most companies would be highly ashamed of.
Tweets are great for bite sized tidbits of conversation that should be followed up with more in-depth posts. 140 chars is not "increasing communication" as we've been repeatedly promised.
Tweeting is like a one line descriptor of a movie. Done well it gives you a vague idea of what the movie is actually about. Done poorly is very misleading. Tweeting has been blamed on more misunderstandings than a lot of the other social media for good reason.