So, I go over to Twitter this morning and I see some report about how Wil Wheaton has decided to leave Twitter.

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So, I go over to Twitter this morning and I see some report about how Wil Wheaton has decided to leave Twitter. Okay, whatever. But, being the snarky guy I am, I post a comment along the lines of, "All the cool kids are using G+ anyway."

The idea being that Twitter is dumb and everyone who's anyone is over here and not there. And yet, to my surprise, that comment is getting a lot of likes. Okay, not "a lot", but five or six, which is a lot for me.

Is there some other meaning people are ascribing to my comment that I'm just not seeing? I fully expected people to get all bent out of shape and call Google+ a ghost town or call me a fool for using it or something, not "like" my comment.

Comments

John Bump said…
Maybe it's people who are still using g+, and are all "yeah!" is all.
August 17, 2018 at 3:02 PM
Bodhipaksa said…
I agree with John Bump. Some people may also just be being polite.
August 17, 2018 at 3:08 PM
Jason ON said…
John Bump I would be inclined to agree, but of the four or maybe five of us using G+, I didn't recognize any names. :P
August 17, 2018 at 3:21 PM
Christopher Gaul said…
Sounds like you have a lot of crossover between your Circles, and your Twitter followers. Maybe even people that followed you here first.
August 17, 2018 at 3:31 PM
Jason ON said…
Christopher Gaul actually, I don't. I keep my Twitter and G+ very separate.
August 17, 2018 at 3:43 PM
Robert Wallis said…
Jason ON if you were "early" to reply to a tweet by a high profile user which is getting a lot of eyeballs then your tweet catches some of that visibility.

Hence more interaction there for you than "normal".

I would also have expected the interactions on that topic to be aserbic though: but people probably read it as sarcasm, therefore "liked" it.
August 17, 2018 at 4:07 PM
Christopher Gaul said…
Jason ON I don't think you have the control you think you do.
More than once I've been surprised to have someone circle me on G Plus and then right after show up in my Twitter notifications too.
August 17, 2018 at 5:05 PM
Jason ON said…
Christopher Gaul I don't get that so much on Twitter but LinkedIN is trying real hard to get to my GMail address book.
August 17, 2018 at 5:21 PM
Christopher Gaul said…
Jason ON oh man LinkedIn drives me mad with the contacts access begging!
August 17, 2018 at 5:24 PM
Jason ON said…
Very much so. It's almost not worth using.
August 17, 2018 at 5:37 PM
Aleks Fatuesi said…
Maybe they were just cool kids.
August 17, 2018 at 5:47 PM
John E. Bredehoft said…
Perhaps G+ will become the new trendy thing, like PBR.
August 17, 2018 at 6:01 PM
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